FULL SHOW: Nelly Talks St. Lunatics Reunion, Tory Lanez Speaks From Prison, Charlamagne Covers Forbes + Papoose & Claressa Shields & Mysonne Interviews

Summary

The Breakfast Club – December 19, 2025

OVERVIEW

This episode of The Breakfast Club, hosted by DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God, closes out the year with a lively mix of music news, celebrity interviews, social commentary, and community highlights. The show features in-depth conversations with hip hop icons like Nelly and Papoose, financial and legal updates, a live call-in segment, and newsmaker interviews—including activist Mysonne and boxing champion Claressa Shields. Throughout, listeners get the trio’s trademark humor and banter, poignant reflections on hip hop, and candid commentary on cultural and personal topics.

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KEY SEGMENTS AND DISCUSSION POINTS

1. Jingle Ball Recap & Southern Hospitality (04:00–08:40)

• DJ Envy recaps the Atlanta Jingle Ball, describing it as a huge family reunion with performers like Ludacris, Nelly, Jermaine Dupri, Bow Wow, Lil Jon, Da Brat, Ying Yang Twins, and more.
• Contrasts New York’s “too cool” artist vibes with Atlanta’s welcoming, communal energy.
• Quote: “Atlanta always seems like a second home... You just talking to everybody.” —DJ Envy (04:37)
• Lighthearted complaints about green room and budget cuts.

2. Hip Hop Legends at Jingle Ball (07:14–08:52)

• DJs and hosts discuss standout performances, especially from Lil Jon (crunk era) and Jermaine Dupri.
• Charlamagne reminisces about his first radio interviews: “Second radio interview I ever did in my life: Lil Jon.” (08:52)

3. Front Page News & Social Issues (09:08–14:06, 36:37–42:54)

• Mimi Brown reports on:
  • The deadline for the Trump administration to release Jeffrey Epstein files; ongoing concern about transparency, accountability, and the painful trickle of revelations for survivors.
  • President Trump’s executive order to reclassify marijuana; details on what this does (removes barriers for research, recognizes medical value) and doesn’t do (does not legalize nationally).
• Hosts scrutinize why marijuana was classified with heroin and call for full federal legalization for true reform.
• Update on the Brown University shooting investigation and efforts to pause the diversity visa program after the suspect is found dead (39:01).
• Highlight on AI bias in hiring, with studies showing names like “Jamal” or “Aisha” more likely to be screened out than “Jake” or “Emily.” Push for the AI Civil Rights Act.
• Quote: “The public deserves to see what the Justice Department is holding.” —Mimi Brown (09:25)

4. Call-In & Fan Interactions – “Get It Off Your Chest” (14:28–22:29)

• Listeners call in to share birthday shoutouts, vent about personal gripes, and offer seasonal wishes.
• Running jokes about “Santa Claus shapes” and family celebrations.
• Reflections on Christmas: Charlamagne describes his disconnect growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness (“I just would—I don’t care”) while Envy enjoys gift-giving.
• Memorable moment: Lovey from “the brawl” discusses balancing Christmas and post-Christmas birthdays, encouraging parents not to overdo gifts but to OD “on love.” (19:19)
• Hosts urge focus on the “reason for the season.”

5. Nelly Interview & St. Lunatics/Metro Boomin Reunion (24:05–29:27)

• Nelly discusses his relationship with Ashanti and balancing homes in New York and the South.
  • “We always got a place in New York... I just can’t live there. I need some trees and grass.” —Nelly (25:24)
• Details the inception of the upcoming St. Lunatics album, produced by Metro Boomin (from St. Louis), though no tracks have been completed yet.
  • “It’s a beautiful thing, man. He’s always representing the Lou… we thought it would be dope to put that Metro St. Lunatics together...” —Nelly (27:04)
• Addresses viral “doesn’t change Pampers” moment, clarifying he has changed diapers and downplaying its significance.

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CELEBRITY GUEST INTERVIEWS

Papoose & Claressa Shields (43:32–69:38)

Papoose on “Bars on Wheels” and Hip Hop’s Evolution

• Explains new EP & short film “Bars on Wheels: A Journey to Save Hip Hop.”
• On maintaining lyricism: “Nobody can do you better than you… just be yourself.” (44:36)
• Critiques blame placed on hip hop for societal ills: “America has a problem with violence… I see negativity going on when hip hop was positive.” (46:44)
• Stresses hip hop’s positive economic and social impact.
• Reflects on growth, responsibility, and cautioning youth against street life.

Black Love, Reality TV, and Public Scrutiny

• Papoose discusses the pressures of public relationships, especially following his and Remy Ma’s split.
  • “It was corny… who wants to be a part of the circus?” (50:18)
  • On opening his life to cameras: “I don’t regret it at all. It was real. People just saw what was going on at the time.” (52:56)
• Navigates rumors, fan attachment, and keeping some matters private: “I wish her the best… I got an amazing best friend in my life right now, and we happy, man.” (54:09)
• Claressa Shields defends their relationship, addresses divorce stigma, and asserts her own independence: “I don’t do second place… I got two Olympic gold medals, 19 world championships. Why would I have to be second place to another woman…?”

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Mysonne Interview: From Incarceration to Policy Advisor (93:21–109:04)

• Details his appointment to NYC Mayor-elect Zoran Mandani's transition team, focusing on criminal justice reform and community representation.
  • “It entails being an advisor... talk about policies... that best fit what he wants to accomplish and what represents us.” (93:50)
• Pushes back against New York Post's “crime boss” headline, sharing his journey post-incarceration and how stigma doesn’t define him.
  • “For the last 20 years… you’re still talking about a crime that happened 26 years later, but you’re not looking at the track record for the last 20 years that I’ve been home…” (105:39)
• Advocates for formerly incarcerated individuals, rehabilitation, and real progress: “Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution.” (103:17)

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OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Tory Lanez Speaks from Prison (72:43–77:13)

• First on-camera interview since incarceration for the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
• Asserts innocence (“I’ve never been violent towards a woman… I would never shoot a woman.”), discusses regret over not testifying, and describes trauma experienced in prison (“I’ve been stabbed 17 times, almost lost my life.”).
• Plans to appeal his conviction to the California Supreme Court.
• Hosts question why he doesn’t name who did it if claiming innocence.

Hot Topics, Cultural Observations, and Humor

• Charlamagne announced by Forbes for a $200 million multi-year iHeartMedia deal; discusses growth of Black Effect network (80:25–82:08).
• Discussion of bias in AI and hiring practices.
• Recap of legal woes for Wiz Khalifa in Romania (78:36), and critique of American artists breaking foreign laws.
• Listener call-ins nominate “Donkey of the Day” for personal grievances.

Music Roundup with Nyla Simone (109:31–115:14)

• Features music from duo 320, Conway the Machine, Kenny Mason, and Nas & DJ Premier’s collaborative album.
• Debate over hip hop’s musical direction and wish list for a Jay-Z & Just Blaze album.

Meditation and Wellness Spotlight: Chaka Khan (115:56–121:20)

• Chaka Khan promotes World Meditation Day and her work with the UN, sharing how meditation keeps her “grounded” and helps choose “the higher ground.”
• “If we choose love and choose peace and choose patience, these are the things we need to really go for.” —Chaka Khan (117:07)

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

• DJ Envy (On Atlanta): “It feels like a family reunion. It’s about listeners and fans having a great time.” (04:37)
• Charlamagne Tha God (On Hip Hop’s Blame): “People blame hip hop for things that actually go on in America... Hip hop saved a lot of lives.” (47:13)
• Papoose (Advice to Youth): “Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. Look around at your crew… all y’all not gonna make it out.” (48:58)
• Nelly: “We always got a place in New York. I just can’t live there. I need some trees and some grass...” (25:24)
• Mysonne: “Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution… People act like being formerly incarcerated is the end, but it’s not.” (103:17)
• Chaka Khan: “Meditation taught me how to perform for my soul first… We are all in this together.” (118:03, 117:41)

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TIMESTAMPS FOR IMPORTANT SEGMENTS

• Jingle Ball Recap: 04:00–08:40
• Hip Hop at Jingle Ball: 07:14–08:52
• Front Page News: 09:08–14:06
• Get It Off Your Chest / Listener Calls: 14:28–22:29
• Nelly Interview: 24:05–29:27
• Papoose & Claressa Shields Interview: 43:32–69:38
• Tory Lanez Prison Interview Coverage: 72:43–77:13
• Wiz Khalifa & Romanian Legal Issue: 77:13–79:48
• Charlamagne Tha God’s Forbes Feature & Deal: 80:25–82:08
• Mysonne Interview: 93:21–109:04
• Music with Nyla Simone: 109:31–115:14
• Chaka Khan on Meditation & UN Event: 115:56–121:20

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SHOW TONE & STYLE

Engaging, candid, sometimes irreverent, and always rooted in hip hop culture. The hosts blend humor with serious discussion, offering a platform for artists, activists, and listeners across the black cultural spectrum. The show is a mix of banter, debates, inspiration, and real talk.

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This episode is a hallmark of The Breakfast Club’s energy—mixing celebrity access, hard news, listener voices, and the pulse of hip hop with end-of-year reflections and community upliftment.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

What a matchup we got, y'. All. This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action.

[Jess]

The band is rockin and the crowd.

[DJ Envy]

Lit chance, echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride. A game like this, yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, Crisp and refreshing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a game changer right there.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work.

[Jess]

So grab a Coca Cola and keep.

[DJ Envy]

That HBCU pride going. You know I love a fresh start and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'll be doing that with my own Shopify store, reviewing what worked this year and mapping out how I'm leveling up in 2026.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Which is exactly why I chose it for mine.

[DJ Envy]

Whether you're running a side hustle or.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Building an empire selling locally or globally.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's like having your own personal assistant giving you direction, helping with reports, content, ideas, everything.

[DJ Envy]

Whether you're just wanting to test an idea out or you're getting serious about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Launching your own brand, it's never been easier to get started on shopify.com b.

[DJ Envy]

E n It's time to see what you can do with Shopify by your side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

They can be hard to keep up with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But with Venmo's new rewards program, Venmo.

[DJ Envy]

Stash, Rewards are so easy because the more you do, the more you get. And you choose the bundle of brands you get cash back at. It's giving Fiscal Queen, it's giving Star.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

At your favorite brands.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just pick a bundle of your go to spots to shop with your Venmo debit card and earn cash back at them.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love being able to touch my.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

See Mint mobile.com Wake you up, wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning USA.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, yo, yo yo yo yo yo.

[DJ Envy]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.

[Papoose]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.

[Papoose]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious. Wake that ass up. Charlamagne's running the late and it's Friday. Vacation, hey, hey. Vacation. This is our last day. Hey, hey, hey. Last day you hype about it. What? I am so hyped. But I, I need this restless to sit my ass down and relax. I mean, I just want to sit down, enjoy the holidays, enjoy my family and just enjoy the things that come with Christmas. Man, I just want to just sit down. That's it. That's all I'm excited to do. I'm actually in Atlanta.

[Mimi Brown]

Huh.

[DJ Envy]

I was about to ask you, how was jingle Ball? I know you in Atlanta. How was that? Yeah, I was in Atlanta for 96.1's jingle, which they do each and every year. I, I, I host the show with the talent down here and it was amazing, man. Salute to everybody that performed last night from Belly Gang, yk, Niece Bank Roll, Nelly Big Extra Plug, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupree, Bow Wow, the Brat, Ying Yang twins. Little John, uh, Pastor Troy, Eastside Boys, Little Scrappy. I ran into everybody last night that sound like a family reunion. It was a family union. And the one thing I would say, you know, I do a lot of these shows and host a lot of these shows and bring out artists and do interviews, and it's always fun, but Atlanta always seems like a second home. And I'm explaining to you why when I do these shows in New York, everybody's too cool. Like, they perform. They go in their green room. They don't really want to talk. They don't want to. Nah, not Atlanta. Atlanta is like, you sitting there. You just talking to everybody. Everybody's in the hall. Everybody's talking to somebody. Everybody's walking by. Everybody's like, where are we going after this? How's your family? What you doing there? Like, it's. It's like a huge family reunion. So salute to 96.1. The jingle ball was amazing. If you went to the show last night, I hope you had an amazing time. I mean, Mariah the Scientist was there. I seen Young Thug there. Kaylani, Molly. It was just. It was just a dope show. So salute to Louis V. Salute to Jill. It was just that they put together a. A crazy, crazy show, and that's a lot of people. Did y' all make the money back for that? That's a whole lot of names that need a lot of money. I. I don't know. But, you know, because of all those names, you know, last year when I did it, I had a green room. This year, my green room was the hallway, so I didn't have a green. So they cut my green room. And then also last year, I had a driver. This year, Louis V. Picked me up from the. From the hotel. So I don't know. I don't know if they had to cut budgets. But regardless, it wasn't about that. It was about the. The listeners and the fans and everybody out there having a great time. And, okay, your job has been getting cut, too. I was gonna say, is that a sign?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy?

[DJ Envy]

But that's why. That's why I didn't complain.

[Jess]

Usually.

[DJ Envy]

I would have. I would have been on my light skin. It's like, yo, how I don't. How I don't have a green room? You know, usually I'd be like, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you gonna pick me up?

[DJ Envy]

But because of everything that's been going on in the world, I just took it on the chin paws, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought you was gonna be here today, man. I had a Christmas present for you, man.

[Jess]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Well, maybe I'm glad you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

The last time you gave me a Christmas present, it was a mold of your ass. So maybe I'm happy I wasn't there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is a very thoughtful gift, man. And you not even here, that's whack. I thought you was gonna be here this morning, man.

[DJ Envy]

I thought so, too, but the flights had another thing, and they didn't want me to come. So I said I'm gonna fly out first thing in the morning, but. Good morning, Leonard. How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Jessica. Robin Moore.

[Jess]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How y' all feel, man? Last day before vacation, baby. What's happening?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, man, you. You would have enjoyed the show last night. The jingle ball. And I was just telling about it. You know who destroyed it and who killed it? Little John.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, keep playing with Little John. Like Little John. Not a God amongst men.

[DJ Envy]

He only did crunk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all. This is a man that's been responsible for quite a few different errors, but crunk is a very. Well, I don't want to say underrated, but, you know, if you grew up in the south, in the era that I did, you understand crunk. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Jermaine Dupree killed it. Nelly killed it. But when Little John, all he did was crunk. All he brought out, all he did was crunk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my gosh. Well, we got Remy. I was Remy. Damn rice. Let me stop shooting. No, I'm not even gonna start now. Let's. Let's get the show started. Let's get the show started. Yeah, let's get the show started. I know, I'm sorry. Cuz they just think of papoose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's like.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, Papua and Clarissa Shields will be here this morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, I didn't mean that.

[DJ Envy]

I swear I didn't mean that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fools has a new EP and short film called Bars on Wheels. A Journey to save hip hop and CLS is fighting on February 22, I believe it is. So they'll be here this morning. Our guy, my son will be here, too. He is appointed Mayor Alexaron Mandani's criminal legal system transition team. So he'll be here to talk to us this morning as well.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. You got Yin Yang twins. Oh, my goodness. When this record came on yesterday, Y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All don't know nothing about this.

[DJ Envy]

Last night, when you talk about to the window, to the wall, to the sweat drop down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, you wasn't even. You wasn't even there.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You wasn't around.

[DJ Envy]

I was around. Was you around?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? I'm from Monks Corner, S.C. don't play with me, boy.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. When this song came on last night, 96.1 to beat jingle balls, Atlantis, Jingle Ball Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dropping the clues bombs for Lil John. Man, that's the second radio interview I ever did in my life.

[DJ Envy]

Really? Lil John, first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First radio interview I ever did in my life was fabulous on Z93 jams in Charleston, South Carolina. He was in studio, him and Lenny S. And then the second was a phoner with Little John.

[DJ Envy]

That's dope. Well, morning everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. All right, now, in Thursday Night Football, the Seahawks beat the Rams 38, 37. What's up, Mimi?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Envy. Just shallow. How y' all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Mimi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

So we start this morning with the clock ticking on those Jeffrey Epstein files. The Trump administration has until midnight tonight to comply with the new federal transparency law passed by Congress to make those files public. Now, as this deadline approaches, House Democrats, they are releasing new material saying it shows why the public deserves to see what the Justice Department is holding. So yesterday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, they released more than 60 photos of Epstein's estate. Now, the images were shared without explanation, but lawmakers say they illustrate the scope of Epstein's network and raise questions about who may have been connected to him. Some of the photos, they show Epstein alongside powerful, well known figures. Others include foreign passports, disturbing imagery and screenshots of messages that appear to be them to be arranging young women to be sent to someone. Now, several images, they also show lines from the novel Lolita, a book centered on the sexual abuse of a 12 year old girl written on a woman's body. Democrats say they're releasing the images as they receive them after the committee was handed more than 90, 95,000 photos from Epstein's estate last week. Now, Republicans on the committee, they argue that Democrats, they are selectively releasing these images to shape a narrative. But all of this is unfolding with the administration now down to the final hours and Congressman Ro Khanna, he says if they miss the deadline, there will be consequences. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[DJ Envy]

At midnight is the deadline for Pam Bondi to release the Epstein files. That is what Thomas Massie in my bill calls for. It passed this body 427 to 1, passed the Senate 100 to 0. And the president signed it. Now, three federal judges have ordered the release of all of these files. Here is the reality. Any Justice Department official who does not comply with this law will be subject to prosecution for obstruction of justice. If Pam Bondi does not comply with the law, she will be held either in inherent contempt of Congress or subject to impeachment. We will not rest until the law is complied with and justice is served.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is Trump going to do today to distract Dustin? Like he put out those tweets about Rob, was Rob Reynold, Rob Reiner, he addressed the nation Wednesday, and none of that really changed the temperature or anything. So that means today he might do something ridiculous.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, meanwhile, survivors say the slow piecemeal release of this information has been painful and re. Traumatizing, leaving them unsure of what. What may surface next. And meanwhile, the Justice Department, to your point, Charlemagne, they have not said. They have not said exactly what documents they plan to release or only that the disclosure is expected before midnight tonight. So we will see what that looks like. And there's a change coming that could affect how marijuana is treated under federal law and what doctors are able to do. So yesterday, President Trump, he signed an executive order that starts the process of reclassifying marijuana, making it easier for federal authorities to study its medical use for the first time in decades. Now, right now, marijuana is grouped under the same federal category as heroin and lsd, but this order would move it to a lower category alongside drugs like Tylenol with codeine, meaning it would still be controlled but officially recognized as having medical value and lower risk of a dependency. And so what that means for consumers, it will remove the barriers to research. So the FDA would be able to fully study marijuana's benefits and risks, especially for people dealing with chronic pain. Over time, it could expand medical options for seniors, veterans, and patients, no matter where they live. What it does not do, it does not legalize marijuana nationwide, and it does not allow recreational use. And that distinction is important because while many states have legalized marijuana in some form, it is still illegal at the federal level.

[DJ Envy]

Why is it categorized with heroin and all of that? Why is that? Like, why is it up there with that?

[Mimi Brown]

That's a really good question. It's been like that forever, which is why you see so many people serving those extra long sentences for marijuana.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's crazy. I never knew that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And why just an executive order? I mean, you know, they're in control of everything. They got the power. Why not legalize it federally right now? That'd be a good distraction today, Trump.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, that would be amazing Distraction.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A great distraction. Forget the executive order. Legalize. Legalize it. You know, all across the country. Federally. Why not? That'd be fantastic.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. All right, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, coming up at seven, if you've ever applied for a job, you're qualified and you are not hearing back, we'll break down how I could be getting in the way.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent phone lines wide open, call us up right now. Maybe you tired. Maybe you was partying out in Atlanta for their jingle ball concert.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe you just tired because you Forgot you was 40 plus years old and you decided to, you know, go from the window to the wall.

[DJ Envy]

Maybe that is true. Whatever it may be, Call us up right now. Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The way that you talk I hate the way that you dress Everything with.

[DJ Envy]

Me is best call up next, 800-585-1051. Not just me.

[Jess]

I'm with the culture feeling.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this? Hey, this Jermaine with Bombay Vodka, man. It's my birthday. What's up? Happy birthday, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From you in a minute, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Long time. Hey, man, it's been a while, man. Salute to y' all, guys, man, enjoy y' all vacation. Enjoy your holiday. Still a big fan. Just wanted to shout out the brand. Shout out my birthday. It's still sad season, and for my birthday, I would like everybody to go to my social media. Bombay Vodka dot com. I mean, Bombay Vodka on everything. And hit the link in the bio and grab a bottle.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, happy boy day King.

[DJ Envy]

Happy birthday, brother. Hello?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, every? What's up, Trav? What's up? Hey, baby. Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, sis. What's happening?

[Jess]

I'm just calling to wish everybody a.

[DJ Envy]

Happy holidays, even the ones that I have shaped like Santa Claus.

[Jess]

Real big.

[DJ Envy]

All y'. All.

[Jess]

Y', all, too.

[DJ Envy]

Happy holidays.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shout out to everybody shaped like Santa Claus, man, I appreciate it. I don't know why Trav acting like this this morning. Why you doing that?

[DJ Envy]

You be bothering me. I'll be minding my business, man, and people just be bothering me. Hey, Trav, I know what you talking about. You talking about old girl from Jersey. You better leave her alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She shaped like Sant.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, listen, we need Her. She got to pull the slave. She got to pull the slave. Watch your mouth, child.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The reindeers pull the slave. Trav.

[DJ Envy]

Watch your mouth. But, y', all, happy holidays. I wish everybody a merry Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

And when y' all gonna be back? February. I'm starting my only fans. You come back January 6th. For real. January 6th. Okay, January 6th.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me look at my schedule.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, look at my schedule, too. Yes. January. Well, have a merry, merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got a bunch. We have a better. We have a best of, best of. The beautiful thing about Breakfast club, we got 15 years of content. So, you know, there's a lot of things that y' all may have not have heard before. That's right. Things that you might want to hear again, you know, so you'll be all right.

[DJ Envy]

We got some new stuff in. In. In the tuck, too. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we got some things that we're gonna be doing at least for, like, the, you know, first few days of vacation.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, and, you know, you can follow on social media.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait.

[DJ Envy]

Wake up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time.

[DJ Envy]

To get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051.

[Papoose]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, the T@803.803 messages.

[DJ Envy]

What up, Jenkinsville?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir. What year was you born?

[DJ Envy]

86, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, 86. All right. Yeah. So you. You was there. You was there for the little John, Aaron.

[DJ Envy]

The end of it. Oh. Oh, yeah, man. There we go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you know. Come on, now. Come on.

[Papoose]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yeah. Hey, but Charlemagne, I got a question, man. I know you. You got a couple of restaurants, but on 5 g. F. Being abused to go in the restaurant and order your food. Then you look in the back, you see the man, but they couldn't. But he got on pajama pants, man. I don't really like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He gotta. He gotta. He gotta. He gotta go home and change. He might. He might.

[DJ Envy]

For real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He might get fired. That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man. Hey, I'm letting everybody know. Waynesburg, South Carolina, y' all know who I'm talking about, man. Tell that man put some pants on, man, and start serving some warm fire, man. The fry be so cold. I ain't never went there and got no hot fire, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How the food do. Oh, you said the. You know, you got hot fries.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, the food, all right, you know what I'm saying is Italian food. So that'll let you know right there who they is. But tell that man to put some pants on, man.

[Jess]

I'm tired of.

[DJ Envy]

Man, he got on Stewart Griffin pajamas, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not Stewie Griffin pajama pants, man.

[DJ Envy]

Stewart every time, man, same pajamas is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does he own the plates, or is he just a chef?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, no, he owned the plates.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's different. See, that's a different conversation. Even though I still think he should be looking the part, but that's a different conversation.

[Papoose]

Eat comfortable.

[DJ Envy]

The food's still good, though, right? I mean, it's all right, man. The price change every time you order stuff, man. But put some pants on, man. Clean that. All that flower on that shirt no more. Still different pajama pants, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Come on, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, man.

[DJ Envy]

Let them know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Hello, who's this? Good morning, my breakfast family. It's your boy Lovey from the brawl. Lovey from the brawl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, my family.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to shout out to my whole family. I want you to enjoy your vacation. Shout out to Taylor. I'm glad Taylor's back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taylor gang.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, But I do want to shout out this. My son's birthday is three days after Christmas, and I know a lot of the Christmas babies get slighted around this time, so all our senior parents, Keep your head up, do what you can, and don't. Don't od, girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't OD on what? Gifts.

[DJ Envy]

What you mean, like. Yeah, OD on gifts. You can OD on love, but not odds. I got you. I got you. You know, this time of year, the domestic violence goes up, suicide rate goes up. So I'm just asking my people just to amp down a little bit. You heard?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think what we should be telling people is, you're not wrong, but also just remind people the reason for the season.

[Papoose]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I don't. I don't believe this was Jesus's birthday. But, you know, if we're gonna have Christ in Christmas, you know, at least act like it.

[Papoose]

Please.

[DJ Envy]

And for the lady I started out screaming on, Trav. Trav is part of the Breakfast Club vip. I need you to get off the neck. That's my bro, right? Right. That's right. Justice for Treb. All right, well, thank you. Thank you, lovie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Lovey. You know what I realized Too. I'm not good at Christmas gifts, bro.

[DJ Envy]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because I just would. I don't care. Like, I grew up Jehovah Witness. Like, I can't get into the habit of, like, going to do that type of stuff. I'd rather you just.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I enjoy it. I love getting my kids, my wife, my mother, my father. I love getting people gifts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm not good at.

[DJ Envy]

When you grew up, like, you grew up celebrating Christmas. He didn't. So he probably, like, I don't. I don't care.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. Not even a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

And. And see, I like to listen to people, so I like to listen what they need or what they want, so I like to surprise with it. Oh, I love it. That's my favorite time. That's. That's what I don't do. I don't be listening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, my oldest daughter hit me with a list, you know, it was a list for, like, my wife.

[Papoose]

I'm like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm like, what you giving me that for? Y' all go figure that out.

[Papoose]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you mean?

[DJ Envy]

What's wrong with you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Figure that out, you know? Go figure that out. You got people you can call? Go call y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[DJ Envy]

I thought you was talk. No, Dad, I thought she was talking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

About, like, your friends.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no, no. I'm talking about the family.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's wrong with you? Wow. His kids come with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you better call your aunt. No, I mean, like, go figure that out. Y' all can go. Y' all go. Y' all got. Y' all can go. Figure that out.

[DJ Envy]

You the dad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

What are you talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got. They got their own money, too. They can go figure that out is all I'm saying. And Daddy got it. Go figure. Figure it out is what.

[Jess]

Don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I don't have time. Don't bother me with it is what I'm saying. Go figure that out. You know who to call to go. See, that's crazy and all of that stuff like that.

[DJ Envy]

If my 9 year old come with a list, Mom's gonna get a.

[Jess]

A mug.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's my me. That's different. The kid. The kids come with the list. Mom handles everything for the kids, but when it comes to the stuff for the adults, it's like, yo, y' all go handle that, man.

[DJ Envy]

You don't want to be bothered at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even know how. How about that?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he right. Because he ordered all types of stuff from Teemu and Sheen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I like Sheen. I found a new site. The Other day I got two outfits for 75.

[DJ Envy]

This guy's crazy. He gonna watch it once it go fit.

[Jess]

Taylor.

[DJ Envy]

All right, get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll miss you, Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go ahead, go ahead. Go to commercial.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that was. Get it off your chest. Now when we come back, we got the latest. Let me tell you about Lauren. I'm down here working. Lauren sends me a three page list of questions to ask artists I'm gonna run into. Dang, he was in the hallway, so. Exactly. But I did and I started.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everyone.

[DJ Envy]

Lauren asked me that. Lauren told me to ask you. This question didn't come from me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In one of the interviews, he said, lauren and somebody. I don't know if it was the artist, if it was Nelly or who it was. They was like, oh, man. I'm like, dang. So we gonna get into them interviews in this first hour. Cause nvr, you've been taking us to Atlanta all morning. So we gonna look at that. Let's do the interviews.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look at them. Two nice sets. $110.

[DJ Envy]

Do they look like $110?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Please.

[DJ Envy]

This is your chance, 56. Yeah, this your chance. Get them back, get them back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

$56 a piece.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't even really see it. Are you sure this is a real site? Oh, they got a Shopify. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Damn right it's real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The pictures are so blurry. It looks like it's just clean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just some nice clean out at night. $56.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me to the real website, Charlie.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you show your wife that before you checked out?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. We got the latest with Lauren. Ladies with Lauren. Coming up next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Lauren becoming a straight fan. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on this.

[Papoose]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Every Breakfast Club talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Envy is down in Atlanta. Our one of Our Sister Stations, 96 1. The B ATL had their jingle ball.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guy, Louis V down there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Shout out to Louis V. And the team down there. So Envy was on the ground and I shot him some questions to ask some of the artists.

[DJ Envy]

Some questions. Three pages of questions.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There's like a lot of artists. You have Molly, Big Extra Plug, Belly Gang, Cushington, Mariah the Scientist, Nelly, Boss Mandelo, Lil John and friends. And the friends is a lot of friends. Kehlani Jermaine Dupree, and friends. So I had to get you. Right. So Envy ran into Nelly backstage, and they talked a bit about a few things. The first thing that they talked. Well, not the first thing, but one of the things that they talked about was the fact that y' all remember Nelly and Ashanti. We're trying to figure out where they live. Live at.

[DJ Envy]

I remember that. No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

So I don't know where they live.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So they have a couple different houses, different places when they were here. And also on their reality show, the conversation was, you know, Shanti's a New York girl, and Nelly loves to be in the South. He loves to touch his grass and have his backyard. So there was a back and forth about that. So himself celebrating this concert, and V and him had a conversation about where they ended up landing homewise. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

She also wanted to know. She said holiday time is here. She said, you gave Ashanti everything. What are you doing for Christmas? Is there anything different? And did she finally get you to move to New York because she. She wanted to go back home and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said you wasn't letting up.

[DJ Envy]

We always got a place in New York. Obviously, she's from there. Her family's from there. And listen, don't get it twisted. I love New York. You live there a long time. I love New York. I. I just. I just can't live there. Okay. I just need. I need some trees and some grass and some. You know, I think it's. It's a good thing for both of us to have that diversity, to be able to go back and forth and things like that. And I think our families love it because her family was just down for my black and white ball that we just had, where I quote, unquote, put Metro on the spot. Right, right, right. But, you know, and they loved it. That was their second time down there, man. And, you know, we get a chance to enjoy both cities.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What's up? I'm with Nelly. I'm with Nelly with that. I don't. I don't like to live in New York because I like. I like the country too, but it's cool now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've always.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you wrote these questions and gave them the envy?

[Jess]

Envy.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I didn't ask that question. I'm not gonna ask. Hey, where would you rather be? These questions?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he blaming this online.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, I sent it in a text. Don't do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know how sassy and we can get.

[DJ Envy]

No, go ahead, Laura.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So they also Speaking of, they also talked a bit about Metro Boomin in the album. Because you remember, it just got announced at his ball that Metro Boomin was gonna be doing the first Saint Lunatics album in like 25 plus years. And people were excited to hear that. So I wanted to know how far they've actually gotten or was he just at the party lit and just let us know on accident? Let's take a listen to Nelly on Metro.

[DJ Envy]

Now, I got a boss in New York. Her name is Lauren LaRosa. Right, okay. She was like, you gonna see Nelly?

[Jess]

Oh, man.

[DJ Envy]

So you gotta ask Nellie these questions. She wanted to know Metro Boomin the album, how did that album come together? You know Metro's from the loo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[DJ Envy]

And Legend. You know, we thought he's been a fan of ours for a long time and, you know, it turned to us being a fan of his, so it just came together, man. It's a beautiful thing, man. He's always representing the Lou. Representing where we from. And we thought it would be dope to put that Metro St. Lunatics together and see what we can come up with. How many records have done so far? We ain't done none. Nothing. Well, we just got it together. So you put him on the spot? We just got it together. No, no, no, I didn't put him on the spot. We had already talked about it a few times. We had always talked about working. We never really got the chance. You know, fortunately enough, he's been doing a lot. Fortunately enough, we had been doing a lot, being on the road and all of that. And it's just about getting in and putting it together. But we decided, yeah, man, we could talk about it. Cause we definitely. It's something we gonna do, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, that was a great question, Lauren. Second of all, I don't know why a DJ who does. Who plays music can't ask a question about an album. Third of all, I didn't know Metro woman was from St. Louis.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I didn't know he was from St. Louis.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A lot of people identify him with Atlanta. Yeah, but he does. He does a lot there. Like, he does a lot in a. A whole lot in the community. He's very intentional about making sure he gives back to St. Louis. And he's been doing it for some time. I don't know why. I don't. He's very synonymous with Atlanta. I was gonna say. I don't know why.

[DJ Envy]

I thought he was from Atlanta too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And it wasn't just one question. It was nine questions.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy will preface it. He'll preface that question. Hey, man, what about you and Metro booming? But. But hey, what did you get Ashanti for Christmas Bay?

[DJ Envy]

They cut that part out. They cut that part out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It gets a little bit more because y' all remember they were coming for Nelly when that clip from their reality show. Him and Ashanti's reality show dropped and he was talking about not changing Pampers. Oh, yeah, let's take a listen to Envy and him having a rich dad conversation.

[DJ Envy]

Nelly does not change Pampers. And when he said that, Nah, I said, come on, man. I said, I'm not mad at that. He has a nanny that does it. 24 hour nanny. Well, let's be clear. I have changed pamphlets, okay? Even when I made that statement, I have changed parents.

[Jess]

So you know how to change parents?

[DJ Envy]

Of course I do. I know one hand with a remote and everything else. You know what I mean? But my thing was that, you know, when you get to a certain age, I will probably say certain things because who changed your Pamper at three months? You don't remember? Probably nine people. The fact that people act like changing Pampers makes a difference in your life, that was just amazing to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like I piece of the planet Charlemagne, the God here. Now, you know, the end of the year is when, like, a lot of business owners are really locking. All right? This is the time to set the foundation for next year. You got new ideas, new product drops, new goals. And when I'm building anything meaningful, I need the right tools. That's why I always tell folks, especially black entrepreneurs and small black owned businesses, Shopify is the move, okay? We use it at the Black Effect Podcast network. And I've seen firsthand how it helps creators and business owners grow with confidence. Entrepreneurship is very important to me, okay? There's nothing wrong with working for people. There's nothing wrong with partnering people. But you should strive to own your own as well. And Shopify can help others grow into entrepreneurs. It's like having a whole team behind you. Your chief of staff, your personal assistant, your co founder, all in one platform. Whether you're running a side hustle or a full storefront selling locally or worldwide, Shopify takes all the guesswork out. Shopify brings everything into one place. You can sell on your website, on social media, and even in the real world. Like some of our partners at our Black Effect Festival coming up in April. Wherever your people are, Shopify makes sure your business can meet them where they're at. Plus, you got Shopify Sidekick and their AI tools, total game changes. I love how it's like having an assistant giving you insights, content ideas, edits. Shopify's got your next move covered. So let me ask you this. If you're ready to take the next step in your life, whether it's merch products or anything in between, get on shopify.com be that's shopify.com ben and make it happen. It is time to stop putting off your future and start your new role as your own boss today.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what up y'?

[Papoose]

All?

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy and the holidays are here. The time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, hearing someone's voice can emote a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shand. She joined one of AT&T's workshops to learn how to video chat for the first time this holiday season. Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings, she'll be a part of them, sharing stories, opening presents, and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone, so be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday season.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Connecting changes everything. AT&T the holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year, filled with joy and laughter, a little bit of the festive chaos we all secretly love. From long shopping lists to travel plans to family dinners, it's a lot happening all at once. But this season, Coca Cola wants to remind everyone that the magic isn't in the hustle and bustle. It's finding joy in the little moments, like laughing over old memories, playing holiday games, or taking that first sip of an ice cold Coca Cola that cuts through all the holiday frenzy and brings the cool comfort to your soul. Because that's the good stuff. The joy hiding in plain sight. The sound of laughter mixing with the clink of glasses, the calm between the songs and the stories. And when things start to feel like they're doing the most, that crisp, delicious taste of Coca Cola can be the reset everyone needs. Just a little reminder that the season isn't about rushing, it's about refreshing. So wherever the holidays take you slow down, take a breath and savor the moment. Enjoy a Coca Cola refresh your holidays.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

That include fat focused, sustainable weight loss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

Get 15% off plus a $40 bonus.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gift when you subscribe at prolonlife.com iheartra that's prolonlife.com iheart 10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that.

[Mimi Brown]

Will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit.

[DJ Envy]

Only one of you will leave here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in.

[DJ Envy]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pressure is coming down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th watch the trailer on trainergames.com never seen.

[DJ Envy]

Anybody go to the moon because the astronaut changed their diapers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy sounded like a disgruntled baby mama.

[DJ Envy]

That was nine questions she asked me. It's Luther, Ferrari, Simmons and BT from 96.1. They was with me but she asked me to ask a bunch of questions to the point Young Thug was there last night with Mariah the scientist. She gonna text me Young Thug is there. Go see if you can find him. Go see if you can find him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause I know they had you everywhere. So I'm like listen, I know you gotta like host and bring out artists.

[DJ Envy]

But put them on the scroll.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Young Thug just got engaged and I am not.

[DJ Envy]

We was just standing in the hallway.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Watching chasing them because I was trying to make sure I was here and planted for I'm getting my life together on like outside of work so I need to be home.

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you looking at?

[DJ Envy]

Why you look like?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why you looking up and down?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Force is kind of filthy. They're a little dead. Dash, you're not doing me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shout out to JD Sports baby. This is only the third wear. Shout out to JD Sports on the forces.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It just made me think about it because we talking about Nelly. Then I just happened to look and you got on some things. That's all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You are so childish. Like very much. You couldn't find nothing else. Thank you Envy for running around for me. Horses look like they've been doing the running, I guess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bring mama back her money. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, I wish you could see some. I wish you could see some of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

These questions on the scroll.

[DJ Envy]

She definitely did. She. I mean, this is a bunch of questions she asked. Ask how it's important to spend holiday time together. Ask Bow Wow about his new music. And Bow Wow excited to go on tour. Ask little John this. I'm like, I'm like, I'm not doing all this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't see nothing wrong with that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I had. You didn't even. We didn't even get, like, Little John audio. That would have been good. That would have woke us up this morning, I'm sure. Yeah, but we had some audio from the performances as well, too, but we didn't get a chance to play them and wrap it up this hour. So if you guys want to take a listen, go to the batl on or look on batl on Instagram. They have recaps there as well, too. And in the next hour, I'm going to take you guys into Tory Lanez's first interview live from behind bars since he's been, you know, locked up for the shooting of Meg Thee Stallion.

[DJ Envy]

You went to the jail and interviewed Tori? No, she didn't send me to the jail. I do that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, NBC News went, not nb.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, we got front page news. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. And Thursday night football. The Seahawks beat the rams last night, 38 to 37. Now tonight is the fight. Charlemagne, you watching the fight?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jake Paul, Anthony Joshua, man, listen, let me tell you something. Not only am I absolutely watching the fight, I have been looking forward to this fight because Jake Paul is the type of white boy I like. I like white boys that aren't afraid to die.

[Papoose]

What you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, and tonight is an extreme, extreme, extreme sport. Okay, Tonight is going to be fantastic to watch Anthony Joshua versus Jake Paul in Miami on Netflix at 8pm I am there.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, Something must happen because he don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look scared, but that's the beauty of it. You don't got to look scared to do the, you know, do something extreme like this. Did Nate Robinson look scared before he got in the ring with Jake Paul?

[DJ Envy]

I don't think Nate Robinson expected what was gonna happen. I think if he knew, he would have probably looked a little scared.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Jake Paul, I'm sure He knows what's gonna happen. First of all, Anthony Joshua is not some old washed up boxer. This is a gold medal winning Olympic champion, okay? Not to mention a two time heavyweight champion who's only 35, 36 years old. All right? AJ puts people to sleep. Oh, boy. You'll see.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, we'll see tonight. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. josh Charlemagne. How y' all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good peace, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, so we start this hour with the major development at the Brown University that shooting investigation. So police say the suspected gunman Claudio manuel Valente, a 48 year old former Brown graduate who attended the university 25 years ago, has been found dead in a from a self inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, ending a six day multi state manhunt. Now, authorities believe that same man was also responsible for killing a MIT professor shot at his home just two days after the Brown attack. Now, investigators say a tip from a member of the public was a turning point in the case. That tipster identified only as John. In a police affidavit, they told authorities that he had several unsettling encounters with the suspect near Brown University, including inside the engineering building just hours before the shooting. Now, John, he later recognized that suspect in the surveillance images released by the police and he shared key details with the police. Now, a Rhode Island D A, he said that it was that tip that blew the case wide open. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[DJ Envy]

That person came forward to two Providence police officers over on the east side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And said he had information and that.

[DJ Envy]

Could help this case.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And he blew this case right open. That person led us to the car.

[DJ Envy]

Which led us to the name, which.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Led us to the photographs of that individual renting the car which matched the clothing of our shooter here in Providence.

[DJ Envy]

That matched the satchel. He was found dead with a satchel.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With two firearms and evidence in the.

[DJ Envy]

Car that that matches exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What we.

[DJ Envy]

See at the scene here in Providence.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, police have not identified a motive for either attack around that shooting. Of course, it left two students dead, nine others injured during final exams, shaking the community. And just this morning, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, she is chiming in writing on X that Valente was granted US Status through the diversity visa lottery program. She said the Department of Homeland Security is now pausing that program immediately, saying the move is meant to ensure that no more Americans are harmed. So, yeah, so we'll see what happens with that. But I'm glad that they, they caught that suspect and that I'm sure that community can rest easy this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder. I wonder how that feels like, you know. No, I don't want to. I don't want to know how that feels. But I'm just saying, like, you know, because you want the person to be caught, but you also want, like, justice. Yeah, I don't know if that feels like justice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

[Mimi Brown]

That's the first thing I thought about when they said they found the suspect dead is, you know, people were, you know, there's so many answers, so many questions.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Left unanswered. So, you know, we'll see. The police of the investigation is not over. Even though that suspect was found, they will still continue to probe and try and figure out what that motive exactly was.

[DJ Envy]

So, so sad.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. And switching gears, too. If you've ever applied for a job, knew you were qualified, and never heard anything back, this may explain why. So right now, many companies, they're using AI to screen resumes. So before a hiring manager ever looks at your applic, a computer program decides who moves forward and who doesn't. So multiple studies show that those systems don't treat everyone equally. And researchers have found that there are names like Jamal or Aisha or Keisha. They were more likely to be filtered out than identical resumes with names like Jake or Emily when those qualifications were exactly the same. And so once the algorithm, it screens someone, that decision is often final. No interview, no follow up, no explanation. Now, lawmakers say that is the core problem. And that's why Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, along with Congressman Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and several lawmakers, they are pushing a bill called the AI Civil Rights Act. Now, the goal of the bill is simple. It puts guardrails on how AI is used in major life decisions, including job applications, loans, housing, and health care. They say that, you know, AI, it picks up historical data, so it reflects those longstanding biases. Instead of fixing inequality, technology can quietly repeat it faster and at a much larger scale. And so they say that that has also been seen in loan loan applications, insurance decisions, and other digital tools where people with, like, black sounding names receive different outcomes than others. So, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's a black sounding name?

[Mimi Brown]

I gave it to you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jamal.

[Mimi Brown]

They were saying that those names, they. They get flagged much faster than a Jake or an Emily.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tatiana, don't. Don't stand a chance. The other day, remember, Tatiana came in here. Salute to Tatiana.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, for sure.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y' all well, that is your front page news. I am Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit bin news.com Peace, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Mimi Brown]

Happy holidays.

[DJ Envy]

Same to you, babe. See you next year.

[Mimi Brown]

See you next year.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now, when we come back, Pap Poos and Clarissa Shields will be joining us. Pap has a new album that's out right now. Clarissa's fighting soon. We're gonna talk to both of them when we come back, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Breakfast Club. Lauren laros is here as well, and we got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Papoose. Papoose.

[Papoose]

Peace.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, brother?

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, man?

[Jess]

I think it's great, man.

[DJ Envy]

I see you just celebrated your daughter's birthday the other day.

[Papoose]

Yeah, I did. McDonald's party, yeah. She turned seven years old.

[DJ Envy]

That's nice, man.

[Papoose]

Beautiful thing, man. Enjoy.

[DJ Envy]

They get big fast.

[Papoose]

Happen so fast, man. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, it's a blessing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like you. You should have been did Bars on Wheels. Oh, really?

[Papoose]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a fact.

[Papoose]

That's a fact.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is Bars on Wheels, first of all?

[Papoose]

Yeah, so Bars on Wheels A Journey to save Hip Hop, man. It's me bas basically taking what I was doing on Instagram to the next level, though. I mean, so sometimes when I post the videos of me driving in the car rapping, some people go in the comments and they be like, okay, but where's he going? So I'm like, you know what? See, there you go. So I'm on a journey to save hip hop, you know what I'm saying? So that's the name of the project, man. And I didn't want to just do it as an album. I wanted to do it as a short film and just do something that was never done before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, you've always prided yourself on just being a pure lyricist. And, you know, everybody likes to do the melodies and the vibes more than the bars. What do you think? Think lyric first rappers need to do to stay culturally relevant without compromising the craft.

[Papoose]

I think just be themselves, man. I think nobody can do you better than you, you know what I'm saying? Like, you're the only one with your DNA, and you got to utilize that. Sometimes people try to go outside of themselves and you cheating yourself. Because you could have just been yourself, and you never know what the outcome could be. So the answer to the question is just be yourself, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So when you write today, are you just trying to out rap everybody or are you just more focused on saying something meaningful? Because you've always said meaningful things in your lives too.

[Papoose]

Nah, man, it's just I study the crap, I practice my craft so long that it comes out like that. Pause. I'm saying I'm not trying to outrap nobody. It happens naturally, you know, I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To be honest, now, I know the project is all about saving hip hop, but at the end of your visual, you basically flip it where it's like, you can't save hip hop. And one of the things that you show without giving too much of it is the conversation around, like, you know, the drugs and things that infiltrated the culture. So first of all, I guess, you know, obvious question is, why would you. Why include that? And then second question to that is, if we can't save hip hop, then what's your real mission? Like, how are you?

[Papoose]

So, you know, I think that played a major part to the demise about. Of our culture, of our hip hop. You know, rest in peace to guys like Mac Miller, young artists who just dying from drug overdose. I think all of those things, man, where they glorified using drugs and you got kids, Odin on it. So I just wanted to shine a light on that and create awareness to talk about it. And as far as at the ending when I said, you know, can't save them, you know, you got to watch part two to see the. To continue to get the conclusion of that. But that's how I feel sometimes, man. Like when I'm. When I say I'm on a journey to save hip hop, I'm a part of the culture. Like, I live this for real. So anytime I step in front of the microphone, that's my goal, to elevate the game. But it feels helpless sometimes, man. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

So how do we change that, right? Because of course, hip hop took a turn right where, you know, the. The sellers became the users and that whole thing. But it was still a place where there was negativity in hip hop, which kind of hurt hip hop, right? Didn't have to be OD and brothers getting to jail, but I felt like there is a strong line of negative and positive when it comes to it. You feel like that positive is not being heard anymore.

[Papoose]

It's not even that. I just feel like, you know, I Feel like negative and positive exists in life, period. Sometimes people put too much on hip hop. Like, they gotta stop. And if a cat gets. If a cat gets stuck in the tree. All these rappers rapping about cats getting stuck in the trees. This is why this happened. You know, I'm saying, like, I feel like people blame hip hop for things that actually go on in America. America has a problem with. With violence and all that. When hip hop was positive, I seen negativity going on, so I don't blame hip hop for those things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Actually.

[Papoose]

I feel like hip hop saved a lot of lives. You know, I'm saying, you know, how many jobs y' all wouldn't even be sitting here for hip hop, Right?

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Papoose]

So when people like to blame hip hop for negative things, you know, I don't. I don't look at it like that. I look at it like we have those issues living in this country, period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw Robin Roberts ask 50 that about the Diddy doc. She was like, is this an indictment of hip hop or something? Like what hip hop got to do with nothing.

[Papoose]

Right, Right. Yeah. See, they always dragging hip, if you notice that.

[DJ Envy]

And I think no other genre.

[Papoose]

No, I think part of the reason why that happened is because they don't like that, you know, black billionaires and millionaires are being made out of this. So I think while we got our own kind putting hip hop down so much, they need to be aware of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How has your perspective on the streets changed, Pap, now that you're, you know, older and just more reflective? Because, you know, as soon as you walked in and we wanted to remind you of when you used to put hands on people, you know, I didn't.

[DJ Envy]

Say it like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You did say it.

[DJ Envy]

No, no.

[Papoose]

What was your question?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How was your perspective on the streets changed?

[Papoose]

Oh, when you say streets change, what you mean, though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just. In just being. Just being an older person, you can reflect on, you know, how things used to be, things we used to glorify.

[Papoose]

That's a fact. That's a fact. Yeah. I respect it, man. I respect and I love Grove. I think it's very important I embrace it. And I'm all about positivity, bro. You know what I'm saying? If you look at me, you know, I mean, you see me like envy said I. I got my history. But when they really put the light on me, I said, what Black love. Something positive, man. I don't wear that. The street on my sleeve. I don't need to. You know, I'm saying I always showcase my talent, you know, I mean, and something positive about uplifting our people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So. So if you could speak to these young men who idolize discreet life, what would you tell them about the real cost of that?

[Papoose]

Yeah, I would say don't. Don't do it. It's not worth it. You know I'm saying. But I always tell my young brothers who I see in the street, and I always try to point this out to them. You know, look at you. Look at. Look around at your crew. And I got to be honest with them all. Y' all not gonna make it out. You know, how many. You know, how many individuals I grew up with when I was younger? They not here no more. I'm sure you got homies like that. They, like, they literally lost their lives. And at the time when y' all was together, y' all was hanging out, y' all was running in the street. You never thought that they would be gone. So I always tell them, yo, look around. Someone, one of y' all or two or maybe three, y' all not gonna make it. It might be you. So if you think that's worth it, continue in the street, but it's not worth it, bro. So, you know, get out of that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You mentioned black love earlier. I know Clarissa's here as well, but I wanted to go back to that. I wanted to go back to that time period because I feel like for the longest time prior to your relationship now, you and Remy were like the emblem of, like, black love positivity. And then everything just switched publicly. And I know you talk about even in hip hop, like, you know how things are thrown on hip hop and thrown on us, negative, negatively. When that moment was happening publicly with you and Remy, what was papoose feeling? Because it was so positive for so long, and it kind of just changed everything. What were you feeling as everything started to, you know, happen online?

[Papoose]

It was corny. It was corny. It's always corny to do social media, you know what I'm saying? Who wants that? Who wants to be a part of the circus? So I just felt like it was corny.

[DJ Envy]

You got attacked for black love early on. Wow.

[Papoose]

Somebody said it. No, you did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, we used to have conversations about.

[DJ Envy]

About what? Love and why we show love. And we had, you know, behind the scenes conversation. But you got attacked for it. When you got attacked for it, why did you think you got attacked for showing and expressing love to the individual you were with? Like, why do you think that happened and why?

[Papoose]

It's a couple but it's a couple different things. So initially, when she became incarcerated, they was killing me. It was like, yo, he holding her down. He's an idiot. He's done all this, right. I didn't care though, because that's, that was my real life at the time. And then as it progressed, one time, Double XL had reached out to me and they was like, yo, we want to follow you one day and document your journey. Like, what's going on with you? And they followed me to the supermarket. I went and got groceries for her, you know what I'm saying? Then I went on the visit, brought the groceries. They sat on the visit with me and they put out that article. When they put out that article, it kind of changed. The outlook kind of changed for, for a hot second, everybody was like, wow. They couldn't believe it and it was cool. I kept going. But what you kind of talk about is when we did loving hip hop, that's when you think the change happened. Yeah, yeah. Well, you had mixed, it was mixed, you know, I'm saying, like the women were embracing it, but I go to the toll booth and I go get to do my money because they ain't have the easy pass, right? And he'd be like, oh, man, you on my household, man. My woman told me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About being a good man.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Papoose]

My woman told me I need to be more like you. Here's your change, you know what I'm saying? So the dudes was always hating, but the women, older women, all different age groups, they, they always embraced it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then you did your, your own spin off, the black love spin off, which you guys have more creative control over at the time, right?

[Papoose]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So if you felt like kind of the tide was changing when you guys got on reality tv, why was it important for you to do that, like second installment?

[Papoose]

Because, you know, the opportunity was there to show more of us. You know, when you're in love and hip hop, you just got like a segment, you know, I'm saying. So it was just that and people wanted to see more of us at that time. So we like, alright, cool, let's do it. I think we did the holiday special first and then it went from there. But going back to what you were saying earlier, like when I first shot it, I was like, oh, they about to kill me, man, when they come out. Because people never saw that side of me, you know what I'm saying? But it was surprisingly, people embraced it. I think the world was tired of seeing our culture getting put down, drinks getting thrown on each other and just the bad stigma on our relationships. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

You ever regret it at all, putting that much of your life on camera?

[Papoose]

I don't. I don't regret it at all. Because it was real. It wasn't like nothing was rehearsed, nothing was scripted. It. People just saw what was going on at that time.

[DJ Envy]

But, you know, the thing with it is like, I get it, but now people are so dialed into your life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So now there is no moment where it's like, hold on, let me figure this out. Because now they're like, nah, you show me this. You showed me the baby. You showed me the one year old party. You showed me. I love that. You showed me this.

[Papoose]

I love that.

[DJ Envy]

But then when it's like, when you say, you know what, I need to take a break, they're like, nah, you can't.

[Papoose]

Oh, no, no. I love it. I'll tell you why. See, this is what happens with celebrities. And I kind of said this before, when it's all good, right? When. When y' all buying into our careers. Y' all watching the TV show y' all coming to, the performances, the appearances, the walkthroughs. I bring you in the room when my daughter is born, you come to the wedding, you see everything. Right? Okay. And then as soon as something happened with these celebrities, what's the first thing they say? Y' all don't know me like that.

[DJ Envy]

I want my space.

[Papoose]

Y' all don't know what's going on in my life.

[Jess]

Correct.

[Papoose]

So I'm glad that I gave y' all an open book. So when someone wants to lie on me, you guys have been there all along. Y' all seen this. So that's all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, there was one thing that came out of that, and you said you wrote 90 of Remy's raps, including Conceited. Was that true?

[Papoose]

No comment, man. You know what I'm saying? I. I wish her the best. And that's. That's all I'm gonna say. You know what I'm saying? Like I said earlier, I never wanted to be a part of that, but sometimes your hand is forced, you know what I'm saying? You gotta. You gotta do what you gotta do. But I wish you the best, man. You know, I mean, I gotta. I got an amazing best friend in my life right now, and we happy, man.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody said, you know, that was a repressing media. It was a hard time because we know y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All. Yeah.

[Papoose]

You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's like, no But y' all know us.

[Papoose]

But sometimes people pretend like they don't know us. That's when get on my nerves.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think for most people, like, what happened?

[Papoose]

Like, I mean, like I said, y' all was there every step of the way. Y' all was there when I was riding up there to the prison. Y' all see me fighting court officers getting thrown out of the courtroom. It was. It was in the newspapers. You know what I'm saying? Y' all seen everything. How can I come to y' all and say something didn't happen? Y' all gotta stop, man. Like, come on. So that's.

[DJ Envy]

I think, during that time. Well, I know for myself, I just wanted y' all to fix it because I've known y' all so long and not fix the relationship, just the friendship, the parenting. Just fix that part. That's what. That's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That takes time. Like, it's. It's a divorce. It's not something that just happens overnight. You know what I'm saying? But people. Life don't stop because of that. You know what I mean? It's papers. It's time. It's all this stuff that gotta happen. But at the end of the day, we move forward with our lives.

[Papoose]

Like, I wish it. Like I said, I wish you the best. We got some great, amazing things going on. Like I said, this is my best friend right here, man. We. We living our life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We've been together over a year and a half now. It'd be two years next year in September. We. At the end of the year. Some of this stuff is just so old, you know? It's so old to talk about, to bring up, to keep harping on it. It's like they're separated. She got somebody, too. Like, don't act like you're just over here. Like, she's happy, we're happy, and that's it. Like, I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Is it cordial? Is it cordial? Are you just like, nah, I'm just. It is what it is.

[Papoose]

I'm always culture, bro. I'm called you with everybody. Like, come on, bro. I'm not problematic, man. You know, Y' all know this stuff, man. Can I ask y' all a question, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've evolved.

[Papoose]

Let me just go out and say, why would something happen? Y' all act like y' all know people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like. Like Envy.

[Papoose]

I know Envy like cars. Envy got dogs. He's a dj. He from Queens. So when somebody come over here and say, I saw Envy doing XY, I've been watching this for 20 something years, I never heard that next to his name. Like, certain things they can't put on your jacket. You know what I'm saying? I know Charlamagne, he speaks about mental health. You know, I mean, he's into different things. He's into his relationship with his wife. If I've been watching this man 15 years, like, certain things on my head. Charlemagne did that man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell me was up here rapping.

[Papoose]

And Charlamagne told to his face, you whack.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I think that's what I'm saying.

[Papoose]

He did that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't hold.

[Jess]

Let me finish.

[Papoose]

You can't just come with some left field. That I never heard in 20 years of me following this man career since he was on Wendy Williams, right? Nah, that. That don't go with him.

[DJ Envy]

Rumor. Pap. Who's punching somebody in the face? I believe it. Keep doing that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait, Papoose, like, to your point. And Champ, I know you mentioned, like, it's old, but I think the reason why people bring it back up is because we saw so much and we knew you. And then when everything happened, there's claims of, like, you cheating and, like, all.

[Papoose]

These things, but that's what I'm saying. Like, if it's a new artist, I get it.

[Jess]

We don't know him.

[Papoose]

All these years, incarcerated, that never been on my name, ever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can't just ask.

[Papoose]

Y' all was out here with me. I was coming to the old school.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is a good point that Pat making, because, come on, all them years she was incarcerated, we never heard about in the street.

[Papoose]

All of a sudden, boom, out of nowhere, an asteroid hit. Like, come on, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that didn't happen because she said she had, like, got into it with somebody over some allegations.

[Papoose]

And like I said, man, I wish her the best, man. Me speaking about that, it goes into, like, a whole. And I ain't here to do that. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Clarissa, I know on your side of it, like, people always, like, push back because it's like, he's still married, and he's this and he's that. You're like, they're separated. We're happy for you trying to move forward in this new relationship. Like, how tough is that when that conversation comes up for you? I don't know why they act like people don't get divorced. It's the craziest thing to me. Like, everything, the most thing that happens in life, people act like we don't. We don't understand is breakups and relationships. You can never. You're never gonna break up with your family because of your blood. You got to deal with them. Your mama, your daddy, your crazy sister, your outrageous cousin. But when it comes to relationship that breaks up all the time, marriages end all the time. Divorces happen. I don't know why. It's like, oh, divorce is. It's impossible. When they don't. When it's. Divorce file public, whatever the heck that was. It's like. And we're together all the time, every single day. EBONY Awards, fights, walkouts at home, cooking. Like, it's harder for the fans that followed them to let go than it is for. For them. I. I feel like I will say this, though.

[Papoose]

I will say this because I don't think this is wrong towards anybody. I will say this. None of that was true, man. I come from a big family. Like, if you. If you really follow me and you're not just around for the gossip, you see my daughter, you see my sisters, you see my mother, you see so many beautiful women in my life who love me to death. I mean, not only because I was there for them when they need me. I fought all their battles. I don't just do it for the person that I'm with. I do this for my children. Like, I don't. I've had to put hands on my daughter's boyfriends to protect them. I'm being honest. I'm a protector, bro. And the provider. So anything outside of that, it doesn't. It doesn't go.

[DJ Envy]

But I think the main thing. I think it doesn't add up when they. When. When the fans follow your life. And like you said, we don't know what goes on. We only know what we see. And then all of a sudden, on Tuesday, we start seeing these. These tweets and these. These Instagram posts. We like, what.

[Jess]

But that's not how it happened, though.

[Papoose]

See, that's what I'm. That's another.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I've seen.

[Papoose]

I know, but you said it earlier, right? You said, yo, Pat, put hands on somebody. Right? Y' all seen all this happen right in front of your face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And you rap.

[Papoose]

None of this was said when. That's all this was going on. See that? Y' all making me get into this. I don't want to do it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm trying to figure out clarity because, like, there's, like, so many questions because it's like, one day, literally, you just wake up, and then, boom, we're. We're in.

[Papoose]

But that's not what happened, though.

[DJ Envy]

Though.

[Papoose]

I don't know why y' all starting it from there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so let's back up, because what you're referring to is the allegations that she was cheating.

[Papoose]

I don't. I don't even wanna.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got.

[Papoose]

Like I said, I wish her the best. I got nothing bad to say about her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everybody knows that before I came into the picture, it's now. It's just these two in the picture. Y' all know where it started. It had. I had nothing to do with anything as far as in. When me and him got together, he was. He was already separated. So y' all know what happened before that. So what. What I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got the green. I beat rappers up for dolos.

[Jess]

It's Halloween.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cal Green available on all digital platforms.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Out now, man get bars on Willie trying to save hip hop on YouTube.

[Papoose]

So, Ava, you trying to tell me that when those. When the day. She referring to you trying to tell me that's the first day you heard about this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't see.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Papoose]

Hold on a second. You ain't see everything that was going on for a whole year before that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The battle, the whole.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna tell you why.

[Papoose]

Why y' all only want to start.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was trying, and you said you didn't want.

[Papoose]

It's very confusing because I didn't even know her when all that was going on.

[DJ Envy]

Now, before. Before Clarissa was in the picture, you hear rumors, but then when you look at your lives, you don't see any. You don't see any turbulence. Turbulence. So it's not like you see anything or you hear anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I held it down.

[DJ Envy]

Even when I heard rumors, I would reach out to Joe just like, yo, just checking on and making sure they're just checking on me. Good. He was like, bro, they good. So I didn't hear him too. But so you know with rumors. Because they say rumors all the time. I mean, the rumors. Charlemagne Gay. We know he not. Well, I don't know, but there's rumors all the time. So it's like, when you didn't. Y' all didn't confirm or deny. I'm like, all right, cool. And then when that day happened, on the tweets, it still was like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Before the tweets, before we heard that Pat put hands on the guy in the battle rap. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And even that, I. I tried to figure that out. I reached out to certain people that was facilitating things, and no one would comment on it. So we can't. It's like, what do we speak to. And that's why now you're here and we're asking you like, okay, so what was before that? Because there were allegations that she was dealing with the black. Easy. The black captain guy. Prior to us seeing them together, whatever the situation is now with them. Was that what was happening?

[Jess]

I mean, you said it yourself, you heard that, you saw the allegations, you.

[Papoose]

Know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not here to bash up man. I won't say anything about it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He not the type to talk pap. Don't do a lot of talking. Like I got a way bigger mouth than him. Okay, whatever you want to say, whatever how you want to put it, but he's not like that. Like, he's, he's really like about like family and friendship and fixing things. Like he's, he's really about that, you know what I'm saying? Like us as women. Well, women, yeah, we will tell it all. Because I love the truth, you know what I'm saying? I put the truth out there. And the thing is like, when like come to the truth, it's like he likes to keep his stuff and handle his stuff privately, you know what I'm saying? And, and respect this stuff. And he's always going to be like that, you know what I'm saying? He's not ever going to change. Even now, like, like this whole conversation, it's like y' all getting a lot out of him because he don't do this. He don't. Because he's moved so forward. We're like just so happy. And he just. Whatever happened, happened. We all know that you go through things through it. We all been through a breakup before. You may not been through a divorce, but you've been. The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year. Filled with joy and laughter. A little bit of the festive chaos we all secretly love. From long shopping lists to travel plans to family dinners, it's a lot happening all at once. But this season, Coca Cola wants to remind everyone that the magic isn't in the hustle and bustle. It's finding joy in the little moments, like laughing over old memories, playing holiday games, or taking that first sip of an ice cold Coca Cola that cuts through all the holiday frenzy and brings the cool comfort to your soul. Because that's the good stuff. The joy hiding in plain sight. The sound of laughter mixing with the clink of glasses. The calm between the songs and the stories. And when things start to feel like they're doing the most, that crisp, delicious taste of Coca Cola can be the reset everyone needs. Just a little reminder that the season isn't about rushing, it's about refreshing. So wherever the holidays take you, slow down, take a breath and savor the moment. Enjoy a Coca Cola refresh. Your holidays busy work weeks can leave you feeling drained.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

Will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit.

[DJ Envy]

Only one of you will leave here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in.

[DJ Envy]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pressure is coming down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Visit eatcaulypower.com where to buy to find a store near you.

[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Been with Mike for a long time. You got to go with your own stuff. He's healed, he's moved on, and he's just in a better place. So it's just like with that when people put stuff on your name, like, oh, you want to defend it, but even him, he don't even want to defend it because he, like, he is who he is.

[Papoose]

Yeah, I mean, you know, like I said, who wants to be a part of the circus, man?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Nobody. I might be a person.

[Papoose]

When you ever saw us doing that? Never happened before.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I had a movie coming out. I definitely didn't want to be a part of it. My movie dropped just a couple days on Christmas, Christmas Day. I was like, what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm like, oh, my. I was losing my mind. I'm like, what is going on here? So even me, I'm like, let me just get far away from this as possible. But I'm still with him. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So now I hit Clarissa, like, promote that movie.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But it's like I'm in a different tax bracket than that to have to use that to promote my movie. My movie did well. It's still doing well. It's up on Prime Video if you haven't seen it. The Fire Inside, but. But I don't want my name connected to stuff like that. I never have before. This thing with him, you never seen. You might see me into a couple little beefs online with a couple fighters and stuff like that, but you never seen nothing about, like, relationship being with a dude who got somebody. You never seen that. I'm my type of woman. If a man with me, he with me. I don't do second place. I never have. I got two Olympic gold medals, 19 world championships. Why would I have to be second place to. To another woman for, like, what do I look like? You know what I'm saying? So, hey, look, that's my thing of.

[Papoose]

Like, like, bars on wheels. A journey to save Hip hop Out now. Produced by my brother Sean. Two miles, by the way. He did the whole project. DJ Envy played the music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that's love.

[DJ Envy]

Don't even check.

[Jess]

Look at that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's from.

[Papoose]

I know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I told him I was going to let him rap for You. Oh, word. While you was here. Okay, so I want to bring him in. LaRussell recently was talking about how he came up here and he rapped.

[DJ Envy]

Rapped.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it changed his trajectory. And so a lot of people see that now. So they want something like, yo, introduce yourself. What's good, people? I'm in from London store say what's up to Pap. Say what's up to Clarissa.

[DJ Envy]

We've known our man a long time and he's a rapper. His records are starting to take off. He showed me his videos and all that other stuff, and we gonna let.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Him take a deep breath. Okay?

[Papoose]

That's love, man.

[DJ Envy]

Up here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got the beat. You better.

[DJ Envy]

What was the other. The other dude that came up here? One guy signed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was Josh, and it was Josh and Don To.

[DJ Envy]

Don To. Used to come up here all the time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Josh and Don To.

[DJ Envy]

All right, let's go. No pressure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want some headphones?

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Headphones matter.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, it will stop. It would a dream I left home at 17 I come from south London, baby you don't see that on the screen. They used to tell me that you'll be someone that don't achieve I used to tell myself that's something that I won't believe when it came from my family it really hurt me deep so I locked myself inside a bedroom cry before I sleep Told them that I want to be what I want to be but they rather me inside the cell or see the boy deceased Lost both grandmas in six months why they leave? When that girl broke my heart I was crying on my knees but that's karma Cause I done the same to mom and now I see life balancing out life and really it's a beast so I'm sorry mommy Cause I know you couldn't rescue me I was fascinated by the streets Ain't want me no degree Imagine having you a child that speaks the way I speak I'll probably go and lose my mind and turn my back on me Crazy how I talk about myself like this so casually Cause my self esteem is low My.

[Jess]

True trauma scar so mad for me.

[DJ Envy]

Couldn'T figure out a path to take I found it gradually Last time a girl, she said she loved me I said actually love ain't satisfactory I'm closer to insanity every day of battle I just want to see my family but I can't cry I chose this life.

[Jess]

So I have a seat Everybody talking.

[DJ Envy]

About me in the street okay, all right, all right, all right. What you think, cat?

[Papoose]

Nice He. He did his thing, man.

[Jess]

That was tough, man. That was tough.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morocco, right?

[DJ Envy]

Morocco. That's where my parents are from, but they moved to London and that's where I was born. I moved to America when I was 17.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, bruv.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, bruv.

[DJ Envy]

Bruv.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's going now, bro.

[DJ Envy]

He's become a Breakfast Club, I would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say, for what, a long time.

[DJ Envy]

Where can they follow you and all that stuff? Me and 22 on the socials, Spotify. You can catch me everywhere. I've got a little song that's doing some numbers right now, so keep adding to it. I appreciate it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Might be One Records next artist. Yeah.

[Papoose]

Nah, definitely sounds tough. I love to hear some of your music, man. Keep doing your thing, man.

[DJ Envy]

Appreciate you for real, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you used to do that, Pat.

[Papoose]

That's a fact.

[Jess]

I used to do the same thing you was doing. You used to be outside more cases.

[Papoose]

That's right, man. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah.

[Papoose]

So I know what it's like, man. When you got that hunger. You just like, yo, I wanna. I wanna get on, man. You got it for real, bro. Gotta do it yourself.

[DJ Envy]

Balls on wheels.

[Jess]

Out.

[DJ Envy]

Right now. Listen, Breakfast Club Papoose Shields.

[Papoose]

Thanks for having me. You.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get right to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on.

[Jess]

The.

[Papoose]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Tory Lanez has. Has sat down for his first interview on camera since he has been behind bars for the shooting of Meg the Stallion. He sat down with NBC and they talked about a few things. So he. Tory Lanez is saying that he feels like this whole situation has unfairly made him the poster child for unprotected black women. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

I've never been violent towards a woman. I would never hit a woman, let alone shoot a woman. There is definitely a very big misconception about me that seems to the public as I'm this monster. And I feel like I was catapulted into this poster child for the unprotection of black women. And it's just so unlike me. And I've never really had a chance to express that. But you can look at my criminal record. I don't have one. I never had one. And I feel like, you know, that connotation that I would do anything of this monstrous proportion is just. It's completely incorrect and it's wrong.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And then he goes on to talk about, you know, because he's been saying for a while that he wanted to take the stand, but, you know, wasn't given the opportunity. Opportunity the way that he should have been to be able to do that during the trial. So he talks about that as well. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

Do you regret not taking the stand? I think if I would have taken the stand, the verdict would have definitely been very different. I believe not only that I was wrongfully convicted, but the amount of new evidence that has emerged since that trial I think has been overwhelming. What is life been like in prison.

[Lauren LaRosa]

For the last couple of years?

[DJ Envy]

Truthfully, I've done my best to keep my head above water, but mentally, I've gone through trauma that I sometimes even struggle with because I've never imagined myself dealing with things that I would have to deal with. I've been stabbed 17 times, almost lost my life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then they, you know, the interview. Interviewer asked Tory Lanez if he could speak to Meg Thee Stallion right now. What would he say? Let's take a listen to that. If you could say something to Megan Thee Stallion today, what would it be?

[DJ Envy]

I think that I wouldn't say something directly to her. I like that moment to happen in person. We've both gone through a lot. There's this connotation that, like, I share this hatred for her, but I don't. I genuinely passed that. I'm at a place of healing in my life. I'm at a place of taking accountability for the things that I did wrong. And when I talk about my case, I don't want it to be taken as me coming at her, because it's not that. I'm just asking for somebody in the system to look at my case and look at the evidence and ask if. If this was fair. How many times has. Has the appeal been declined? It has been declined a couple of times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So there were. It was misreported. Right. So in the beginning, there were certain things from what he was trying to appeal or what he was asking. And it's like an innocence plea that he made in the beginning. And they declined to review certain things. Like, it's very technical. But the actual, like, appeal was denied in the California Second District Court last month after it found no ineffective assistance of counsel or produce trial court error because basically Tory Lanez was alleging. Here's everything that went wrong. Or was wrongly done in court, whether it was by his former attorneys or just not being treated fairly by the judicial system or, like, the judge or whatever, and they. They didn't bite. Like, they didn't believe what he was saying.

[DJ Envy]

So now he's going to the Supreme Court, correct?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So, yeah, they're trying to take it to the California Supreme Court. They plan to file a new appeal which would include the allegation of different violations. And, you know, he's saying that in this new defamation case that they've been going through or have went through recently, that there was, like, new things that should have been displayed in court that weren't that they found out from this defamation case. So they plan to bring that to the front forefront as well in this second appeal.

[DJ Envy]

So basically, like, if going off of what he just said, right? Like, if he's saying, and maybe I'm. I'm jumping out here, but if he's saying, like, yo, I would never shoot a woman, and I didn't, wouldn't it be just, like, easier just to say who did it? If you didn't do it, like, then we'll do it then, Tory. Like, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, should have said that from the beginning, right?

[DJ Envy]

But that's. But he still ain't saying it. But you saying you didn't do it, it would be easier for you, and you know what I'm saying, just to be like, I didn't do it. Such and such did it. Like, what? You can't say you didn't do it, but everything points to you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How long has he been locked up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's been four years.

[DJ Envy]

Three.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A little over three. Yeah. So there's that. And moving on. In other news, Wiz Khalifa. So this came out yesterday. Wiz Khalifa is being. Has been sentenced to nine months in prison in a Romanian court. Now, this comes from something that happened back in July of 2024. So Wiz Khalifa was performing at Beach Please, a festival, and he smoked a blunt on stage while performing. And so once he smoked, which got him in trouble over there because of their law, so once he performed, he was pulled over, pulled to the side by police. He was questioned about it, and then prosecutors later sentence him. Not sentenced him, but find him $3,600. After that happened, they then overturned that fine. And now they're trying to intend. With the nine months in prison because they say that the court, the court basically feels like he sent a message of normalization of illegal conduct. Because what they're alleging is that the crowd and the audience that was there were a bunch of young kids. He's a super influential celebrity who should have never decided to smoke on stage. And he actually spoke out about this back in 2024. He's now planning to appeal this decision. And his. You know, there are sources that are saying that nothing is final yet on this, even though it's being reported as that it is. He said back in 2024 that he was. They were very respectful to him. They let him go. He plans to come back soon, but without a big blunt.

[DJ Envy]

Next time, I'm not coming back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's it called?

[DJ Envy]

Nope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Poor Mania.

[DJ Envy]

Romania.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Romania. Nope. Just not coming back. Y' all gonna have that one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wouldn't go back either.

[DJ Envy]

Not only am I not coming back. What'd you say, Jess? I'm saying, why do these people go to these other countries and do this stuff, though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, yeah, you should always respect the law.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The other country that you're in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But he said he didn't mean any disrespect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, true. But guess what?

[DJ Envy]

I'm not going back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't going back. Y' all ain't about to put me in jail for nine months over.

[DJ Envy]

Not only that, I'm not going back to any countries that's close to them that they can come and grab me. I'm not going nowhere near.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You. Go back and just follow the laws, y', all. I'm saying. But if this. If he appeals it, it's overturned, and he's good. He pays his fine, whatever.

[DJ Envy]

Because some people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There are people calling this harsh, like, you know, and they don't believe it'll actually happen because of the power that the US has and the fact that he's a big celebrity. First of all, there's a criminologist before you get into social media and all your unk things. Yes. There's a criminologist that BBC spoke with because I was trying to figure out, like, what is the favor here?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the laws in Romania of them. That's what we should be looking up. Before you look up porn stars that know a little something about porn stars.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God. Not that BBC.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's what you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, the outlet.

[DJ Envy]

Like, the media outlet.

[Mimi Brown]

Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I would never. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

My mom.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My grandmother is listening. Why would you say that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to a porn star that know a little something about law.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not somebody I met at Diddy Court yourself.

[DJ Envy]

Z, before you go, I just want to tell you a funny story. So, you know, I used to have the black Tesla truck, right? And I used to go to pick up my daughter, and when I used to go pick her up, they used to, they used to scream, BBC big black car. And my daughter would just be like, dad, what is BBC? And I just wouldn't answer her. But I thought that was the funniest thing. I'm like, I don't know what they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talking about in the neighborhood you live in. That's very racist, sir. Okay, I just want you to know, I just want you to know, in the neighborhood you live in, pulling up in that and white people yelling, BBC is very racist.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know we got. I know we got a rap, but this is breaking right now. Charlemagne the God did a 200 million dollar deal with iheart Media. Girl, please, my sources. That's per Forbes. You ain't going nowhere. You here. So you work here?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do work here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Forres just dropped the article and it's a look into Charlemagne's new empire and his ambition to turn Black Effect into the bet of podcasting. So they said that the five year deal was signed back in August and that you've launched over 60 shows of Black effect, but you plan to add 10 more in 2026, is that correct?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I don't know what that number is you're talking about, but yes. Salute to Forbes. They highlighted my career and my various business ventures. Thank you. All praises due to God. God is so good. And I just want God to continue to guide my steps, my words and my actions. I'm actually on the. I'm on the COVID Yeah, now hold.

[DJ Envy]

On, I'm reading this. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm reading this. And it says, Charlemagne the God recently signed a $200 million deal with iHeart. Now, Charlemagne, when I walked in today, you said you got me a Christmas gift.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I did get you a Christmas gift.

[DJ Envy]

Was it before you signed this or after you signed this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I don't know nothing about the number. All I'm telling you is that I'm.

[DJ Envy]

Talking about the number.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Apologies to everyone who reported otherwise that I wasn't staying with Iheart. I don't know where you would get that from, but yes, I've resigned a multi year deal with. With I Heart. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, this daily cover, they got like, it's like a gift. Like photos of Charlemagne moving you. Are these, these pants a little fitting, sir? Like you look a little thick in these. And you be talking about thick and all this, husky and all that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God is so good. We're just gonna keep growing okay. Black effect will continue to grow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's go check out these photos.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Breakfast Club will continue to grow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That waist will continue to grow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We are leaving. The year of the snake. It's all about shedding and letting go. Okay? The year of the horse 2026 is upon us. And it's all about the stepping into who you really are.

[DJ Envy]

You better not give me that black. You better not give me that black ass this year for Christmas. That's all I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Whoa.

[Jess]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Congratulations, sir. Congratulations. Congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Huh, Y'?

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you spell Jerry curl? I learned something new from reading this article. How you spell Jerry, Carol?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you like the COVID though? How the COVID looks?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Spell how you spell it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

J H E I Curl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When you can, you read everything, you know how to spell it. I did not know you spelled Jerry curl. J, H, E, R. You also go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To get law advice from porn stars.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got it from BBC. And not that. Whatever. But you look. You look uncish on here.

[DJ Envy]

You look good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the. Yes, the Forbes cover.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Daily cover of Forbes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Congratulations. Yes, congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, the physical will be out in February.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There's print, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Big business. Big 200.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. What? What?

[DJ Envy]

What are you talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big 200. Big 200 look crazy.

[DJ Envy]

That phone about to light up. I need to boss somebody, bro.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's the year to Snake. I'm shedding my.

[DJ Envy]

My windshields crack next, and it's the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

People don new sneakers.

[DJ Envy]

My kids need to go to college.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

1-800-585-1051. If you want to give somebody my.

[DJ Envy]

Front door ain't working.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stupid. You can do it right now.

[DJ Envy]

My belly. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember now, that is how they choose. Call in now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the Day for Friday, December 19th is the People's donkey. Okay, you know we do this every Friday, so you can call us right now 1-800-585-1051. And give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So. Good morning. Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. This is T. Peace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

T Get. Who do you want to give the biggest hee haw to?

[DJ Envy]

I'm giving a he haw to my mother.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She still has not tried to meet her grandson.

[DJ Envy]

I took your advice when I called.

[Lauren LaRosa]

For get it off your chest. I sent that other email just like you all told me to, to just try to touch base with her and give her one more chance. And she still has not. Like she literally responded to the email and just said, he's handsome. God bless. So honestly, I'm letting it go. And she deserves a big legacy hall for letting our situation stop her. For being a first time grandma.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God damn. What's her name?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my mother's name is Lynette.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, Lynette. Well, I hope that y' all can figure that out, man. But I get it. It's funny. Me and my cousin was just having that conversation just about how like when parents or grandparents know they didn't show up for you the right way, so they feel ashamed. Well, no, when parents know they didn't show up to you the right way, they feel ashamed. So it keeps them from even wanting to be involved in their grandmother. I mean, their grandkids lives. That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And you know, I think she's still.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Holding on to that emancipation issue. But if I was. If I put my private side to just reach out so she can have.

[DJ Envy]

Her relationship, like, I have to let it go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I'm blessed with my boyfriend's family, everybody that loves him. But she deserves the biggest he heart because we grew up in a church. She should know better. So he ha, he ha he ha. And Merry Christmas.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy holiday.

[DJ Envy]

And Merry Christmas is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, good morning, man. This is boom from 843.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

843. Who you want to get a biggest he hard too?

[DJ Envy]

This guy, man, from yesterday, man. I don't even know this clown's name.

[Jess]

He.

[DJ Envy]

I guess he tried to commit suicide on the 526. They messed up everybody's money, man. It had to shut down on both sides until about order the two, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not my brother. My brother. My brother, my brother. Now, you know a lot of people jump off that bridge. What bridge is that? That's the.

[DJ Envy]

That's the Don Hope bridge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, people jump off that bridge a lot. Why? Why are you mad at him? Because he was feeling suicide title like this like.

[DJ Envy]

Because he messed up my money, Charlie, man. All I made is $110, man. I usually make about seven, you know, 800 a day. This joker, man, he had traffic back up. I just going home.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I understand, but it is the holiday season. People dealing with a lot of seasonal depression, man. Like, you know, you don't know what going on in that man life. You know, he was not. I'm. I know he wasn't thinking about you, sir. He was thinking about not being here no more.

[DJ Envy]

Trust me. Listen, when I heard at around 5 o' clock this morning, I heard them say someone was on the bridge or jumping off the bridge. So my heart did go out. I was like, dang, man. Someone killed, you know, committed suicide on the bridge again. You know, that's a sad thing, but at the end of the day, when I wake up the next day and hear the news that they saved this guy, I was like, nah, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get off my phone, man. Listen, this is the reason why you shouldn't kill yourself, because nobody's gonna kill. There ain't no way in hell. I want life to just continue to move on without me like this, all right? No, no, please, man. Find somebody to talk to. Please. Good morning. Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, how you doing? This Antoine. How y' all doing, fam?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Antoine. Where you calling from?

[Jess]

Atlanta, Georgia.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A3L, Shorty. We want to get a bigger sea haul too.

[DJ Envy]

All right, I got two today.

[Jess]

First one is to go.

[DJ Envy]

I know we just went through this whole food thing, you know, crisis, and they be throwing away food, and they.

[Jess]

Don'T be wanting to give it up to the people.

[DJ Envy]

People and the workers get suspended for.

[Jess]

For.

[DJ Envy]

For taking food home too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I think that's so lame. I think that there's a special place in hell for people like that. Because if you're just gonna throw the food away as a. I think it should be a policy for all fast food restaurants or any type of chain restaurant. Instead of throwing the food away, package it up and take it to the near the nearest, you know, home shelter or community organization that feeds people. Like, don't just throw that food away.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Jess]

Now even. Even the owner don't even want to let it go. He wanna.

[DJ Envy]

He want to have some kind of monetary. You know, we had to pretty much pay for us to take the food home, so it's like, it's ridiculous. Also, I want to go give a Henry public school system. My wife is a teacher for almost 10 years now, so. Shout out to Courtney. They just over overrunning her. She comes home and she's stressed out and they be going all over the place with her, and I just don't think that's fair. And then we get checked that out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gotcha. Good morning. Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Yo, Charlemagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace.

[DJ Envy]

Who Keisha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Keisha. Who you want to get the biggest hee haw to?

[DJ Envy]

I gotta give it to you and I gotta. Gotta give it to Lauren, man. Okay, Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[DJ Envy]

Go to moistjusandlift.com sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go to moist. What? Moistjucylips.com moistjucylips.com why am I on there? Am I on there?

[DJ Envy]

You need to be on there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You saying I got moist, juicy lips. Keisha, don't flirt with me now. I'm a married man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Last time I talked to you, you.

[DJ Envy]

Called me a legend, man.

[Papoose]

I told you to go to my website.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all remember I gave Lauren my book, right? She never gave y' all my book. Some of these, Lauren. To get y' all my book.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

In all of my merch.

[DJ Envy]

But you called me a lesbian.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As DJ Emmy was hanging up on me, so I got to give you the biggest document.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why did I call you a lesbian? Why would I just randomly be, like, you a lesbian?

[DJ Envy]

Because of boysjustlift.com. i guess because of the moisty lips.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. I don't remember that.

[DJ Envy]

She writes, I just didn't do nothing to you that I. I'm telling you. Hey, thank you. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Moist, juicy lips.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, but I've been on. I'm looking. I've been on your website before. You got the book choices and you got the book Lacy, Lacy Red thong. Then you got another book called Moist.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna ask you about some of these titles.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You hung up.

[DJ Envy]

You hung up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, well, yeah. Go to moistjucylibs.com, y'. All. There's all types of horniness on there for anybody that will feel feeling frisky this weekend. Good morning. Who's in?

[DJ Envy]

This is Tisha from Texas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tisha, who you want to get the biggest he haw to my own self.

[DJ Envy]

Because the other day, I was doing my ritual, getting up, turning on the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Breakfast Club, because, you know, that's y'.

[DJ Envy]

All in my ritual. Nothing was on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I heard some white guy talking, and.

[DJ Envy]

I said, now, what's going on? And I'm looking. I turn. I asked Alexa to turn it on. Nothing happened. It was the same white monotone guy. And I was so mad, saying, they just celebrated 15 years. Trump has taken him off the air. What did Charlamagne do? Figured out it was a dog on Sunday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

See what happens?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's like. That's like pulling up the Chick Fil a hungry as hell on a Sunday and wondering why it's closed.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I have to put myself on. I'm like, oh, Lord. I was trying to turn on the.

[DJ Envy]

Local radio here in Dallas. Dee Dee in the morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She wasn't On, I'm like, he's taking.

[DJ Envy]

All the black people off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Dee Dee McGuire. Man, I love Dee Dee McGuire.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Dee Dee?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My guy, George, Big Geo, he's the operations manager at K1. It's K104, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, he's the first person to give me a full time job on the radio in Charleston, South Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep. At a station 989. And he told me that he wanted me to do a morning show at night because I used to be on seven to midnight. So he kind of prepared me for where I am now. Man, I love Big Gio.

[DJ Envy]

That's my daughter. Just grabbed the divine power.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. 100. Yes. His daughter did just graduate.

[DJ Envy]

She just graduated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She graduated from.

[DJ Envy]

I'm looking it up now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm tell you right now. He, she. Her name was Anaya. Anaya graduated from lsu. Oh, yeah, lsu.

[DJ Envy]

She was a graduate from lsu. Yes, she did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, well, Merry Christmas to y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

I love y'.

[Jess]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess, you should do a scarf line.

[DJ Envy]

You know how you do it with the scars.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do a scarf line.

[DJ Envy]

We're biased. You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

That's a great idea, babe. I appreciate it. I'm dropping scarves.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Merry Christmas.

[DJ Envy]

Happy New Year. Love you, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, gee, I just don't think I was ignoring you. I literally. I saw when you text me the picture that Anaya graduated. Salute to Anaya graduating from lsu. But I. I just saw the picture about the monetary gift would be deeply appreciated.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I just seen that, too. I just see that, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I got Anaya right now.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'm gonna throw something in there. I'm throw something in that, too. Congratulations to Anaya.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, LSU N. People like Gio, people like George Cook, man, we probably wouldn't be in. I wouldn't be in the position I'm in if it wasn't for, you know, somebody like him. So. Salute to. Salute to my guy, man.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Gio. Yeah, I'm going do my car show with Dallas this year, too, so. I know Gio going to hold me down, but. Yeah, we going to throw something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're not welcome in Dallas. You're a Giants fan and you be talking too crazy about us. You don't. You don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You respect the star and then you can. You can step foot in Dallas.

[DJ Envy]

Jealous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we do that every week. Every Friday. The people's donkey. You can call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. All right? So we ain't gonna be here for a couple of weeks, though, so you know what I'm saying? But we. We can get to it when we come back.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, my son will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. My son is now on Zoran Mandani's NYC Mayor elect Zoran Madani's transition team.

[Papoose]

Team.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. So we'll be talking to my son when we come back. You know, the New York Post just fronted on my son. They put him on the front page of the Post talking about a crime boss. As if that man hasn't been home, you know, doing nothing but God's work since he stepped out that cell. But we'll talk to him when we come back. All right?

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. My son.

[Jess]

Thank you for having me. What's going on with you? You autograph this for me, man?

[DJ Envy]

You autograph.

[Jess]

This is the first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me see.

[Jess]

This is the first time I actually see. I don't even have.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't see it?

[Jess]

No, I didn't even see it, like, in person. I just seen it online. Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, before. Before we get into that. What. What does your role on Zoran Mandani's transition team entail?

[Jess]

It entails being an advisor, being able to talk about policies that we think should be implemented from criminal justice, from public safety. Also appointments people that we think should be a part of his staff that in that area that we feel best fit, what it is that he wants to accomplish and what represents us in the community.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what power do you have to actually influence policy? Because, you know, people will be like, oh, this is just optics. You get somebody like my son who's well respected in the city, like, what power do you have to actually influence?

[Jess]

Well, it's 20 of us. It's 20 of us on. In that committee, right? So we sit down and we talk about policy. We have different meetings. We. And we. We send. Okay, this is the policy. We think we shouldn't act. And he gets to look at that based off, you know what? We come together and he makes his own decision. We don't just tell him what to do.

[Papoose]

We.

[Jess]

All we can do is advise and give recommendations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hater. Love, mom. Donnie, right? People have been yelling that they want this. They want people in the community from the community helping to make decisions. Why are people so upset that it's happening?

[Jess]

Because, you know, people don't like change, especially the people that don't want to see change. They want to make it seem like it's a bad thing. It doesn't make sense that you mad that somebody who's experienced the criminal justice system on both ends, who was wrongfully convicted inside prison for seven years, came home and started working with youth inside prison, started, you know, dealing with reform organizations. Who has influenced policy within prisons, who knows, you know, the, the mind state of the young kids that's going in and out of these prisons, that's actually working with him. That doesn't make sense that somebody would be mad. So I love what Man Mondami is Man Lech right now is doing right now because he's really trying to encompass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jess]

Max what new York looks like the people Inside New York, the Voices of New York. I'm about to do start doing roundtable meetings and convenings with formerly incarcerated individuals in which we sit down and we talk about what it is, what it looks like to actually be productive members of society. What do we want to see? What do we realize is wrong with the system? So so he can actually get a real understanding of what's happening inside the system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I try not to take too many things personal, man, but when I saw this on the front page of the New York Post, you labeled as a crime boss Mandani appoints rapper who served seven years for armed robbery as Justice Advisor. It actually offended me as a person with a criminal record because it's like, damn, my son went to prison in what, 1999? How old are you? 20?

[Jess]

Yep, 21.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

21. You're a 47? 48. 48 year old grown man now. You've done nothing since you came home but giving back to your community, but tried to teach others not to follow the same path and you still can't escape that.

[Jess]

Well, you know, I say all the time with the devil means for bad God are used for good. They got a good picture. So I actually like this picture you're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wearing your boycott black.

[Jess]

That's exactly what I'm saying. When you look, it's boycott black murder on the shirt in the hat. And we actually sold out. So you can, can you can go buy some more on the website if you want [e-mail] but it actually shows what it is that I represent. So what happened was for me, when I see I received so many congratulations, it's like people didn't even realize that they were actually trying to, you know, discredit and defame me. People were just like, wow, you, you, you're doing something with the mayor. You're actually, you know, a part of the justice advisory system with the mayor. So it was, it was, it didn't even get, get the effect that they wanted to get. So it was, for me, it was like, you know what? I'm not going to utilize, I'm not going to allow them to utilize that. To discourage me from the work that I've been doing for the last over a decade. You know, with until freedom, we've been doing this anti violence work, we've been doing criminal justice work for the last over a decade. So if for me it's like I'm going to continue and I'm gonna utilize this, this notoriety and which I mean for bad, I'm utilize it. I'm gonna make sure that, you know, the world gets out. I'm gonna make sure that I represent formerly incarcerated and justice impacted people properly. So when they say, oh, we can't do, I want, I want to be a representative to say that my son showed you that it's definitely possible then you can be successful.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did that because I mean, you've been doing this for a long time. Like, you know what I mean? But did this moment and how like a New York poster, you know, wherever else mentioned you, did it turn up something new or like make you think of like, okay, we need to make sure we're doing this over here too. Like, like, was there like a blind spot that like you saw through all this?

[Jess]

I don't know if it was a blind spot, but it definitely was a level of urgency. It made me feel more, you know, motivated to do the work that we've been doing to, motivated to Bring certain voices because, you know, I say this all the time. There's so many formerly incarcerated people who are doing so many positive and, you know, just really good things that nobody talks about, you know, and that's the thing I want to highlight. I don't want. Because a lot of people formerly incarcerated don't believe that they can do certain things. They don't believe that they can be successful. And most the. The public perception is that too as well. So I want to be able to highlight people that come home that have been doing this work for, for years, who've been doing positive things for years, who've been productive members of society. You know, they always. People act like they don't. Allen Iverson was formerly incarcerated. You know, like there's so many people that we talk about that was formerly incarcerated. Malcolm X. Malcolm X was formerly incarcerated. And it's like we just, we look down on the stigma. And when we talk about formerly incarcerated, a lot of people don't act like they know that black people are the highest falsely accused and exonerated people in the world too. So a lot of us, like I said, I was falsely accused of a crime. I spent seven years in jail for a crime I didn't commit. I went to trial for my case. So it's like a lot of us, just because there's the stigma of us being arrested and incarcerated, they make it seem like we a threat to society and we just criminals. And some people have committed crimes, but some people like when you go to the justice, when you go to the prison, right? It's supposed to be rehabilitation. So if a person does his time and he comes on, he's productive. Why do we act like he can't be productive?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they're focusing on your past, but that is the very thing that qualifies you for the role. How do you feel about that?

[Jess]

I think that is so ironic, or it's just disingenuous to say that when we got a president that got 34 felonies and his whole cabinet is full of criminals, right? So, but we, we don't. We look at especially black people. We act like we can't do certain things. And I say all the time, this is. Those closest to the problem are closest to solution. You know, sitting in the cell for seven years, you know, seeing how the injustice system works, seeing how inmates are treated and how people are sending. A brother just was, was killed. You know, he was executed. And they found out four or five years later that his DNA didn't match and he was actually innocent. So these are things that happen every day in the justice system and people like myself who've actually experienced it, who understand that and see the blind spots, because somebody who just went to school and studied law never understood those realities. A lot of times I've watched a lot of elected officials, I've watched people who studied the law and then they actually got incarcerated and they came home and have conversation with me like I didn't realize what was going on. And they becoming the biggest advocates for prison reform and for, you know, those type of things. So I just think that I've. I've been blessed with the opportunity, you know, and God created for me for such a time as now. You know, I never understood when I was incarcerated. When you sit in jail for seven years for a crime you didn't do, you don't understand what you in there for it. Especially you got a million dollar record deal. You're sitting in the jail cell and you're like, why the hell am I sitting in jail? And it was days that that was my conversation. And, you know, but I always said that I'm not gonna allow this system to break me because every day that I don't grow and I don't learn and I don't do things positive, then the system one. So when I came home and I started realizing, oh, while I was in there, I started realizing that, that our people are overly incarcerated, Especially young black and brown men. They're overly incarcerated. Some of them are just lost. They don't even identify with things. So I came home with a different perspective, is to say, you know what, I'm gonna pour into my community different. I'm gonna empower these young boys. I'm not gonna make them think that prison is somewhere to be. But I'm also not gonna make you believe that because you was in prison that you can't be successful. And I wanted to come home and model that behavior. And I think for the last 20 years that I've been out of jail, you know, my crime happened in 99. It's 26 years later, and y' all still talking about a crime that happened 26 years later. But you're not looking at the. The track record for the last 20 years that I've been home and I've been on this ground putting. Put boots on the ground and doing this work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you want young organizers watching this moment, watching you, watching Tamika, watching the Erica Ford on this transition team? How do you want them to understand the relationship between protest and policy?

[Jess]

Shout out to Angelo, too. He's actually. He's on the Department of Justice. But I want young protesters to organizers, right? Because I don't want you to just be protesters. I want you to be savvy. I want you to be intelligent. I want you to be strategic. I want you to look at this moment as progress, right? Because we all got to do different things. There's an inside, outside game. You know, for years, we stood outside and we was the protesters, and people said, yeah, y' all can go out there. And they made jokes. You got your picket sign, and it was cool. But we watch incremental change happen, right? We got. We got incremental change. And we protested enough people to where they said, okay, what do y' all want?

[DJ Envy]

Want?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Jess]

And then they sat down with us, and then we started saying, okay, we want this. And they saw. And we saw watching capitulate. When we look at. Talk about the cms, Tamika and Erica Ford and at those. They sat out there and protested the mayor until they got millions of dollars put into that CMS system to when there was nothing, you know, when they was told that there was no data and they would never get a dime. And now it's up to over 100 million that's given to CMS inside of new York City because people did that work. So I want you to be understanding. I want you to be relentless. I want you to be fearless. But I want you to understand that there's a process and that there's an ultimate goal. And if you just protest and you don't see things going anywhere, if you don't get yourself, if you're not in positions to actually make change, if you don't have the ears and the wherewithal to touch the people who can actually give policy, to actually do things for the communities you fighting for, then you just fighting a fight for nothing. So it's cool. I told people, I'm tired of having, you know, victories, you know, just being the leader that died. We. We celebrate our leaders dying at 30, and they ain't got nothing. And they. But they kept on. I want to win. You know, I don't want moral. I'm tired of moral victories. When do we actually get the victories where we see some change for our people?

[DJ Envy]

People.

[Jess]

I'm tired of the story of we watching our people run out in glory. And they say, yeah, y' all gonna be the first ones. We know all y' all gonna die, but it's gonna be brave. You brave because you went out there and I don't want that no more like when we gonna be strategic and we go through the back door and we actually take over the castle and we put our people in position. When we gonna start doing that? Like, I think our strategy has to change and it has to evolve with what we dealing with. It's just like when we look at Trump and we look at Jasmine Crockets and we look at the people that. That are meeting fire with fire. We can't keep having the conversations about, oh, this is not how it's supposed to know. This is how it is. You can't fight a fight with one hand behind your back, where people got four and five hands and they jumping you and you saying, but I fought with honor and I did it the right. No, actually you fought and they killed you. Like, I'm tired of just dying. Like, I really want us to win the war. So I want black people and our young activists purpose to be strategic and figure out how do we actually get the things that we fighting for. Word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it's my son, man. What can they find you, my brother?

[Jess]

You can find me on Instagram at my song NY General. You can find me on YouTube. Same thing. Facebook, Same thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, keep holding them accountable.

[Jess]

TMI podcast that we're gonna get LL on real soon, so make sure you follow us on TMI podcast on iHeart.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, the Black Effect. IHeartradio podcast network. My man, my son. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. And you know what time it is. It's time for Path Dogs.

[DJ Envy]

Nyla Simone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Nyla. What's happening?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, Char? What's up, Jess? Hey, girl. Okay, so today, of course, a lot of new music. Again, I just want to give a few shout outs because Marco plus dropped the deluxe to his project Salute to Marco plus. And. And then also last week, I had a lot of records that I wasn't able to get to, but I don't know if I should start with the new. Actually, let me start with R B and then I'll get into the rap first. I want to start with 320. They're a duo. I think there are a couple. Not sure. Sorry if you guys aren't. But yeah, you do look like a couple. They do a lot of R B gospel type records, like positive, uplifting. And they just dropped an album. This record that I'm about to shout out is called the Light.

[DJ Envy]

Very fresh. I want to be that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What is it? I Want to be down by Brandy. Yeah, it gives that. It gives that vibe. I like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Feels very minty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, good. Refreshing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, Very minty. You know what I'm saying? You know, you put a mint in your mouth and you, like, take a deep breath, you know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, good.

[DJ Envy]

I like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That. Good. Their. Their record that I first got hip to is called Blessed. Like that, where they flipped them cool like that. So they just have. Yeah, they got a dope catalog, so I love planning.

[DJ Envy]

So that's a good tape.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Sample. Check them out. Next, we're gonna get into our rap bag. I'm gonna do with Don't Ever Feel Real. This is off of Conway's. Conway the Machine's new project featuring Heather Victoria. Shout out to Heather.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nala, let me tell you something, man. You know how. You know, God, I don't make no mistakes, because every single time I hear Conway, it's very rare I don't do my face like this. It's very rare I don't do, like. That's why. You know what I'm saying? Like, I know, you know, what happened to him was an unfortunate situation, but the fact his face is in that permanent sideways, that's how he makes me feel whenever I hear his music.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's very rare I hear Conway. It don't feel like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, gotta do the screw face. I like it. Oh, and also, I just did an interview with Conway. Make sure you guys check it out. It's on YouTube. Next, I'm gonna go with Kenny Mason. Now, Kenny Mason is another rapper who's a part of the. You know, Marco, plus Reuben Vincent, Chris Patrick, class, suave. He's also out of Atlanta, and this record is called Gorgeous, even though I will say I think Kenny Mason was.

[DJ Envy]

A little bit before them. But that's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I like that.

[DJ Envy]

That's a.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a 10. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like the beat switch.

[DJ Envy]

Like, whatever that's called. Whatever he did to the beat before, it just went off fire.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, good. Yeah. I knew you liked it. I seen you dancing. I'm like, okay, great. We got Jess.

[Jess]

I like it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You Three for three, Nyla.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yay. What we ending with?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We ending with. I gotta do this Nods and premiere, man. I've seen a lot of commentary about it online, some negative, some positive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thoroughly enjoyed the Nods and Premiere album when I first listened to it. I think I had too much expectation because of. Of the past work that they've done. So, you know, when I heard the album, I kind of wanted, like, more, you know, of the Madman, Nasty, Esco, Nastia Records. But then I'm like, nah, I like what they did a lot. I like writers. I like, you know, welcome to the Underground. I like Pause tapes. What you playing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm gonna play the Bouquet.

[Mimi Brown]

Bouquet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Record the Shout out to the Ladies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I knew you was gonna do that. This. This. First of all, this is why you don't listen to the Internet either. Because, you know, the Internet don't be appreciating good music. Because literally, when I listened to the Nas and Premiere album, I was like, okay, it' cool. But I had a different expectation. But then I'm watching people on the Internet say they don't like it, and I'm like, nah, ain't no way, Nas. I'm like, nah. Then I went and rolled to it. I'm like, no, I rock with this album a lot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Papoose]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Nothing like affirmation. I love affirmations. I. I felt like I was in a time capsule. It took me back in the day, like, you know, but that's just the feel that Nas gives you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I love it.

[DJ Envy]

I love what he's talking about. I like the beat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Yeah. And you know what? It makes me want to hear a Jay Z album with one producer. Because, you know, Nas has done this several times, right? Nas did all the albums with Hit Boy. Now he did it with Premiere. And I'm like, you know what? Since y' all always want to compare Jay Z and Nas, like, like, let's. Let's get Jay Z to do a album with one producer. And I know 444 came close to it because he did a lot of work with no id.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm talking about, like, really just locking in with one producer that we know that he makes great records with. Like, we know Nas and Premiere make great records. By the way, Jay Z and Premiere make great records, too. But imagine a Jay Z Just Blaze project. Just imagine a Jay Z Just Blaze project. Think about all of the great records Jay Z and Just Blaze have made to get together. Go back to the Blueprint album and listen to those Jay Z Just Blaze records you don't know, and all of that stuff like that. Think about PSA. Imagine Jay Z and just Blaze locking in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. 2026.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know when, but that's what I would want.

[DJ Envy]

Would he do it again? I mean, is he like. Is he. You think he'd be up for that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why not?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you know, and you know another reason I would want it to be just blazed because I want Jay Z to talk filthy. Like he gave us the 4, 4, 4. He gave us the grown, you know, more healed version, you know, doing right by his wife, not cheating on his wife no more, stuff like that. Like we, we got that. I want him like, like coming down to the nigga net and addressing all the low vibrational bs, all the people that be having something to say.

[DJ Envy]

What did he do though? What did he. That he just was now? I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Okay, but that would be dope. A Jay Z album produced by just Blaze with him just talking filthy to everybody who always got something to say about him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I would love to hear. Come on. I would love to hear that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man. That would be fantastic.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know how filthy though. I don't know. Some things he's above.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, he said he's Some things he's above, but you know, it can. He can be speaking from a healed version to these.

[DJ Envy]

True, true, true, true.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, if you guys like those records, make sure you guys tap into my playlist, the certified playlist.

[DJ Envy]

Them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, good. I'mma text them to you. But for everybody else, make sure you guys follow me on the gram at Nylasimone. N Y L A S Y M O N E E E They're all added to the playlist. And yeah, we'll be back next year, so happy holidays.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. When we come back, we got The People's Choice Mix 1-800-585-1051. Don't call for no requests because that's just a lie that they tell you for no reason. It's the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning short. Breakfast Club, Charlemagne the God, DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. And Sunday is World Meditation Day. You know, I'm a big proponent of meditation. I. I can get up to about five minutes of stillness, you know what I mean? But Shaka Khan. Shaka Khan. And, and her foundation is doing a collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and she's co hosting the second annual UN World Meditation today from 12 to 1pm and we have her on the phone right now to talk about peace. Ms. Chaka Khan.

[DJ Envy]

I'm peace seated, my brother. How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm blessed, black and highly favored. Why you ain't bring your pretty self in the studio so I can hug you?

[DJ Envy]

Well, you wouldn't want to hug me, right Now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, Ms. Chaka Khan. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Who's this? I'm talking to Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's Lauren LaRosa. This is Charlamagne. I know you have your Chaka Khan. The Chaka Khan foundation, in collaboration with United Nations Office for Partnerships, is co hosting the second annual UN World Meditation Day.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Org yes dot org.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, that's very important.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How has meditation or spiritual practices helped you, Miss Shaka?

[DJ Envy]

It's helped me to. To stay calm and to. To go for the loving aspect of human nature as opposed to, you know, I can be. I. I go for the higher ground. And that's what we all have to do in these times. You know, things are, you know, a little bit nutty right now, and we need to all really go for the higher part of life. You know, we have to really look for the best parts of all people. You. You know, just for, you know, just going for the. Right now, things are crazy. People are a little bit, you know, unsure about what's happening in life and what's going to come next. The thing is to trust in the fact that we all are in this together. And if we choose love and choose peace and choose patience, these are the things that we need to really go for it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

And it can be rough sometimes, but it is. The beauty of us is that we are able to go from one place to another really quickly, and we should be about that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw a comment that you made. You said, I spent decades performing for the world, but meditation taught me how to perform for my soul first.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What point in your career did you realize that you weren't performing for your soul first?

[DJ Envy]

Well, I think I got that early on in life, even though I couldn't. I couldn't really talk about it. I couldn't really, you know, I didn't know what was going on except that I was singing and I was loving it. And I was receiving a lot of love, too, from the people I was singing to. It was. It became. It's really my. It's. It's what I do for a living. Yeah. I am. I'm like, they. I feel like a preacher, you know, and I feel, you know, like. Like one of God's children who have privilege to talk to. To be. To be about. Talk. Talk to vast amounts of people and touch them in a. In a. In a good and loving way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

And that's what we need to be about these days right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree.

[DJ Envy]

Patience.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why did you choose to partner with the United nations for this?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, because they Have a global. They are global. And it's. I mean, it's wonderful. We are so honored and thankful, you know, that the United nations, you know, the world, made it up for World Meditation Day. You know, get feels the same way that we do. And they're really. They've really been great so far, and I'm looking forward to that for World Meditation Day, to maybe get us all on one mental, heartfelt place at the same time. It's a big thing. It's a beautiful thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. We're not gonna keep you. I just want to ask you, though, what does meditation give you now that success and accolades and the fame never could?

[DJ Envy]

Well, it keeps me grounded, and I see things for what they really are. You know what I'm saying? And we are really about loving each other and being patient with one another, sharing our gifts. And I'm really honored to be in this place in my life. I'm happy, you know, that. That God chose me absolutely. To be doing what I'm doing. I'm honored.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, we were honored to have you on the phone this morning, Ms. Chaka Khan. Tell them what she be. What she's doing again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren, you're headed to the UN today, right?

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And lovely weather.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know, right? It's raining here in New York. And so you guys will be working just based off your partnership because of World Meet Meditation Day, because you shared on. On Instagram already, and millions of people tuned in. So now you'll be doing it with the UN Right. Right.

[DJ Envy]

And many, many people will be tuned in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And will it be a live meditation session that we'll be able to watch?

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And how can people tune in? Got you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, thank you. Tune in.

[DJ Envy]

Tune in and give us your love. And let's spread it. We will spread it to everyone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I hope to see you soon in this studio now, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. Yeah, well, I'll be there soon. That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, peace, Ms. Shaka.

[DJ Envy]

Bless you all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Peace and thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club now. Jess, you in D.C. this weekend? Yep, I'm in D.C. we had a show last night. We got two tonight, we got two tomorrow, and one on Sunday. So get your tickets if you have. Not yet. We do have merch. Don't play with me merch. That's for the new tour coming up in 2026. Last night was dope. I haven't done a show on a Thursday, like a weekday show in a long time. About like eight years. But it was amazing seeing so many people come out through the rain. Parking ain't good is what. But they was in there fly. They was ready to see Jess and Desi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I appreciate you, D.C. we're gonna.

[DJ Envy]

Have a lot more fun this weekend. All right, that's time to get up out of here. You guys have a great week, a great holiday, a happy new Year. We'll see you on the other side. You get a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, man. I've been telling y' all this for some days now, and I just want to remind you, this is the year of the snake, okay? As the snake sheds its skin, may this year bring renewal. Okay? 20, 25, you still got what I think 14, 13 days left to shed everything that is no longer serving you, okay? The snake says you have to get rid of the old to make way for the new. Do don't be afraid to start again. Be flexible and open to change. Focus on your goals. Let go of the past, okay? I need y' all to do that before the year is over, man, because we're in the year the snake. But you only got a like, 10, 13 days left until the year of the horse, so have a great Happy holidays and all of that good stuff.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Jess]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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