FULL SHOW: Ray J Arrested on Thanksgiving, Kandi Burruss Addresses Spending Holiday with Ex + TJames 'JJ'88' Jacobs, Contessa Gayles & Richie Reseda Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club (December 1, 2025)

Episode Highlights: Ray J’s Thanksgiving Arrest, “Songs from the Hole” Netflix Doc, Diddy Doc Details & Real Talk on Relationships

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Episode Overview

In this lively post-Thanksgiving episode, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God catch up on their holiday breaks, dig into the latest viral celebrity drama (including Ray J’s arrest on Thanksgiving and Kandi Burruss’ family dynamics), and sit down with James 'JJ88' Jacobs, Contessa Gayles, and Richie Reseda to discuss the powerful new Netflix documentary, “Songs from the Hole.” The cast also debates relationship "officiality" and explores issues like forgiveness, mass shootings, and hip-hop accountability. Lauren LaRosa brings exclusive insights on upcoming documentaries and social buzz.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving Recap & Holiday Vibes

[02:54–06:11]

• The hosts share their Thanksgiving experiences, cooking stories, and family traditions.
  • Jess: "I did turkey and turkey wings 'cause I like the dark meat." (03:21)
  • DJ Envy: Caribbean-inspired menu including oxtail, jerk chicken, and traditional dishes.
• Lighthearted banter about Christmas music and when it’s appropriate to officially start the festivities.
  • Charlamagne: “Now it's Christmas time. Now we should play Mariah.” (06:13)

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2. Front Page News: National Headlines

[07:23–11:02; 28:10–38:03]

• DC National Guard ambush: Host Mimi Brown covers a shooting near the White House and ensuing political fallout over immigration and vetting.
  • Charlamagne (10:22): “I hate how things move so fast in this country...they're politicizing the situation already. We don't even know what the motive was yet.”
• Military strikes in the Caribbean: Discussion of US military activity, possible war crimes, and President Trump’s decision-making.
• Stockton, CA Mass Shooting: Tragic birthday party massacre that left multiple children dead.
  • Jason Lee: “It's never been gangster to kill kids.” (32:26–32:53)

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3. "Get It Off Your Chest": Listener Calls & Real Talk

[11:28–17:22]

• Listeners vent about political fatigue, financial stress around the holidays, and the importance of trade schools.
• Char and Envy encourage blue-collar trades, highlighting a growing need for skilled workers.
  • Charlamagne: “The next generation of millionaires is going to be the blue-collar workers.”

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4. Viral Story: Ray J Arrested on Thanksgiving

[18:54–27:52]

• Lauren LaRosa details the Ray J and Princess Love Thanksgiving altercation, including police involvement and live-streamed chaos.
  • Live argument excerpt: "[Ray J]: 'Take my kids, watch how they cry...Drive drunk, Princess.'” (19:25–19:43)
  • Princess Love’s response: “I love my kids and I would never do anything to put them in danger, including leaving them with a man who's waving a gun around.” (22:24)
• The crew debates why Ray J went live during the conflict, perceptions of parenting, and the impact of social media on legal cases.
  • Charlamagne: “I just wonder what makes people say, ‘I'm gonna go live with this.’” (25:12)
  • Lauren: “He claims he went live to protect himself.”

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5. In-Depth Interview: ‘Songs from the Hole’ Documentary

[38:57–63:39]
Guests: James “JJ88” Jacobs, Contessa Gayles, Richie Reseda

• Synopsis: JJ88 recounts his journey from being incarcerated at 15 for second-degree murder, the subsequent loss of his brother, and finding meaning through music behind bars.
  • Charlamagne: “Do you really understand the consequences of your actions at that time?"
  • JJ88: “At 15, you don't understand the gravity of it...The older I got, the more mature I became, the more I understood...which is why we made this film.” (41:13)
• Recording while incarcerated:
  • Richie: “Everybody in prison thinks they can rap...but when I did meet him [JJ88], I was blown away...We made the album in prison, completely against the rules.” (51:04–51:14)
• Reflections on forgiveness:
  • JJ88 on meeting his brother’s killer: “Forgiveness to me is releasing within myself what I think you owe me because you hurt me. It has nothing to do with you; it's about me letting go...I wanted forgiveness more than anything.” (62:17, 61:02)
  • The group discusses cycles of harm, healing, and how systems of retribution affect incarcerated youth.
  • Contessa: “We structured the narrative arc...around spiritual freedom and internal healing.”

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6. Relationship Talk: "Will You Be My Girlfriend?"

[85:15–101:06]

• Lauren LaRosa recounts her birthday vacation, during which her partner officially asked her to be his girlfriend in a grand, romantic gesture.
  • Jess: “I think it's cute...he wanted to court her the right way.” (87:38)
  • Charlamagne: "You posting this to the world; the whole world is like, damn, they out the country and he just asked her..." (94:07)
• The team debates whether adults need explicit relationship asks or if actions are enough; callers weigh in with their own perspectives.

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7. Diddy Documentary Exclusive

[68:55–112:49]

• Lauren reports on “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” – a new four-part docuseries produced by 50 Cent, dropping on Netflix.
  • Features never-before-seen footage of Diddy in the days before his arrest, discussions with lawyers.
  • 50 Cent on GMA: “It was surprising he actually filmed it himself…He’s got such a brand presence, and to watch him thinking about how he was coming off to the public…”
  • Legal complexities discussed: The footage’s ownership is disputed, but Netflix claims legal clearance.
  • Doc will feature multiple insiders, jurors, and commentary on celebrity culture.
  • Charlamagne: “This has nothing to do with hip hop…This is about Diddy and nothing else.” (109:57)

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8. Donkey of the Day: Juelz Santana on Literacy

[76:57–85:07]

• Charlamagne calls out Juelz Santana for his controversial comments about financial literacy being more important than reading.
  • Charlamagne: “There's nothing worse than watching a group of Black men be happy about not knowing nothing...Reading is the superpower.” (78:03; 81:01)
  • Emphasizes: Literacy and financial education are not in competition; both are vital.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• JJ88 on forgiveness:
  "Forgiveness to me is releasing within myself what I think you owe me because you hurt me. It has nothing to do with you…It's just letting go." (61:02)
• Charlamagne on reading:
  “There's nothing worse than watching a group of Black men be happy about not being able to read. All right, Juelz, you from Harlem—so was Malcolm X...reading turned Malcolm Little into Malcolm X.” (78:28–80:09)
• Lauren on 'official status':
  "I want all the bells and whistles...I also wanted, just even when we had the conversation, to know, 'are we, are we not?'" (88:41; 96:26)
• 50 Cent (on Diddy doc):
  "It was surprising that he [Diddy] actually filmed it...[he] was thinking about how he was coming off to the public." (104:41)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:03 — Thanksgiving Recaps
• 07:23, 28:10 — National/Local News Headlines
• 18:54 — Ray J/Princess Love Thanksgiving Fight
• 38:57 — “Songs from the Hole” Interview
• 68:55, 103:26 — Exclusive on 50 Cent/Diddy Doc
• 76:57 — Donkey of the Day: Juelz Santana
• 85:15 — Relationship Talk: When is it 'Official'?

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Episode Tone & Style

• Conversational, humorous, candid
• Mix of serious social commentary, culture critique, and playful “family” banter.
• The show blends fresh news, real stories, and authentic glimpses into the hosts’ lives and values.

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Summary Takeaway

This Breakfast Club episode masterfully weaves together breaking news, viral scandals, deeply personal journeys of redemption, and playful conversations about love and authenticity. Standout moments include the raw interview about prison, music, and forgiveness, nuanced debates on relationships and culture, and exclusive peeks into major upcoming documentaries shaking hip-hop and celebrity society.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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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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[Richie Reseda]

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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]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Woah woah. Woke up. Wake you up. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up. Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne. Running a little late. And it's Monday. Back to the work week.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

How was your break? How was your Thanksgiving?

[Just Hilarious]

It was good, man. I felt good cooking. Listen, listen, I cooked all. I cooked half of everything. And then my mother in law cooked. I did not know that lady had chops like that in the kitchen.

[DJ Envy]

Mexican food, like.

[Just Hilarious]

No, Nick, no. We didn't have no Mexican food, Joe. We did. Okay, so we did turkey.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Ham. Now, look, I'm the type. I do turkey and turkey wings because I don't like the whole turkey. I just like the dark meat. So I did the turkey wings. She did the turkey. I did. She did Sour Creek. I mean, sauerkraut with the pig's feet. I know a lot of people don't do that, but I do that still.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Collard greens with the hog. Not the hog mugs.

[DJ Envy]

The.

[Just Hilarious]

The smoked pork neck.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

I know y' all probably ain't used to that no more, but I do that. And then we had Mac and cheese. Four cheese. Mac and cheese. Then Nya made her Mac and cheese, which was different. So we had a Mac and cheese off. I won, you know, obviously. And then we had yams and sweet potato casserole. It was so much food.

[DJ Envy]

So there's no taco stuffing.

[Just Hilarious]

No tacos.

[DJ Envy]

Joe, I'm just asking.

[Just Hilarious]

No, she didn't want to do that. She wanted to be country.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

And do it the black way.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

How was yours? I know y' all different mixed up in the house too, so.

[DJ Envy]

So Andrew's mom came. You know Andrew's mom?

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, I met her in Ohio.

[DJ Envy]

I love her.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

So her. Her mother and his two siblings came. So, you know, we usually do like a Caribbean type of thing. So we usually have. We have oxtail, we have jerk chicken. We have curry chicken. We do the Mac and cheese and all that other stuff as well. But because his family was there, we did the turkey.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

We did ham.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And some of the traditional Thanksgiving feast. It was dope, though. We had a great time. We had a great time.

[Just Hilarious]

Did they like the. The. The decorations? You know, you put up your decorations back in October.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they loved the decorations. Yeah, they love the dec. And then I also had to. During the break, I had to fly To Alabama to do a show with Drew Hill and John B.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Baltimore. Drew Hill, Yeah. I didn't know there was like eight members of Drew Hill now. Did you know that?

[Just Hilarious]

No, I did not.

[DJ Envy]

They just kept coming on stage. It was. It was like Cisco, then Nokio, then Jazz. What's the other brother's name? I can remember.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Just Hilarious]

But it's three more after that.

[DJ Envy]

Then I think Player entered the group. Like the R B group.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Player.

[DJ Envy]

They're part of Drew Hill now. Somebody else is part of it. It was Mad. So on stage, I didn't know why they added.

[Just Hilarious]

Why, why they asked so many people.

[DJ Envy]

It originals, Mad people on stage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I was, I was trying to google. Every time somebody came on stage, I.

[Just Hilarious]

Look like you a know nobody.

[DJ Envy]

I know nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Cuz I knew Cisco, I knew Nokia.

[Just Hilarious]

I knew Jazz, of course the originals.

[DJ Envy]

Then when Player came on, I was like, I know player, but they're not Drew Hill. And I had to google and see.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, see, I. I got confusing, but yes. How was the show?

[DJ Envy]

They killed it. Killed it. Drew Hill killed it. John B. John B. Just a cool white boy.

[Contessa Gales]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Shout out to John.

[DJ Envy]

He performed. Yeah, you know, he. He played the keys, had his sunglasses. Oh, he's just a cool white boy.

[Just Hilarious]

He's definitely cool.

[DJ Envy]

He killed the song.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He white or is he Puerto Rico?

[Just Hilarious]

I thought he was Puerto Rican.

[DJ Envy]

I thought he was white.

[Just Hilarious]

John B.

[Lauren LaRosa]

White.

[DJ Envy]

Whoa.

[Just Hilarious]

The last interview that we did with him up here, he do look like a member in sync back in the day. But back in the day he looked like our engineer Red. He looked like. And you know Red is Puerto Rican.

[DJ Envy]

No, I thought John B.

[Just Hilarious]

Was Puerto Rican. All these things.

[DJ Envy]

No, John B. White. Damn, B.

[Just Hilarious]

All right, all right, all right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's get the show cracking. All right. We got front page news when we come back. Also get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 and it's officially time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy]

Now it's Christmas time.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, God.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, now it's Christmas time. Now we should play Mariah. Now we should play officially thought out.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, we got 25 days.

[DJ Envy]

Now it's officially 25 days of Christmas. The Christmas season. Now we should be able to play this. A breakfast club. Good morning. All right, that was Mariah Carey Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Song of all time.

[DJ Envy]

What's that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Felice Navidot, your people song.

[DJ Envy]

That's not my people's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That song is so fire.

[Just Hilarious]

My favorite song is Give love on Christmas Day by Johnny Gif.

[DJ Envy]

Mine is.

[Just Hilarious]

That's your house song.

[DJ Envy]

Christmas in Hollis. Hollis and Christmas, all of those are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Great, but Feliz Navi died is really the slap of Christmas.

[DJ Envy]

You had tacos for Thanksgiving.

[Just Hilarious]

I did not. My mother in law cooks. No, no, no, no. We had turkey, we had ham. We had pork ribs and everything.

[DJ Envy]

They just put it in the taco.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's dope.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. That's what I said.

[Just Hilarious]

No, they didn't. No, we did not do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why are you listening to Police Navidad?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Police Navidad. That's the only part.

[DJ Envy]

That's the only part you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't.

[DJ Envy]

What else you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to wish you a merry Christmas. English Merry Christmas.

[Just Hilarious]

That's true.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Back to the work week. Let's get in front. Take that off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, that's fire.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why?

[DJ Envy]

You hate people. All right, well, let's start off with sports. All right. Now, the Bear. What? Yeah. The Chargers beat the Raiders last night. The Broncos beat the Commanders. The Bills beat the Steelers. The Buccaneers beat the Cardinals. The Panthers beat the Rams. The jets beat the Falcons. The Dolphins beat the Saints. The Cowboys, y' all beat the Chiefs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

31, 28.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We did on Thanksgiving Day.

[DJ Envy]

And the Eagles lost to the Bears. Now, Monday Night Football, the Giants take on the Patriots. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. MV Josh Alamain. How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. All right, so we start this morning in Washington where investigators are still working through that ambush that killed one National Guard member and left another in critical condition just blocks away from the White House. Now, officials say 20 year old specialist Sarah Beckstrom was killed and 24 year old staff sergeant Andrew Wolf remains in critical condition after both were shot in broad daylight while walking their patrol route last week. Now, authorities say the gunman, an Afghan refugee, opened fire with a revolver before another guard member returned fire and detained him. He is now under guard at the hospital and prosecutors are pursuing a first degree murder charge. Now, in the wake of the shooting, President Trump has paused all asylum decisions from so called third world countries and ordered US Embassies to stop issuing visas to Afghan nationals while the administration reviews its vetting system. The White House is placing blame on the prior administration even though immigration records show the suspect's asylum was approved this April under the Trump administration's own process. A national security official say the suspect previously served on a CIA trained strike force in Afghanistan, meaning he would have had to gone through US Security vetting years before ever coming to the United States. Now, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she was asked about those conflicting details, including the vetting and the asylum approval, during an appearance yesterday on Meet the Press. Let's listen to that exchange.

[Just Hilarious]

But I just want to be very.

[Mimi Brown]

Clear about this, because his asylum was approved in April of this year on.

[Commercial Announcer]

The Trump administration's watch. Yeah, the vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administration.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was he vetted when he was granted asylum?

[Commercial Announcer]

Are you saying he wasn't vetted? Vetting is happening when they come into the country, and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden's administration. And that's why I'm so grateful we have a president now that isn't going to allow it to happen, that he now has put in place measures under his watch at the Department of Homeland Security that we are bringing in new information on vetting, new information to use.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Such as what do they do on Facebook?

[Commercial Announcer]

What do they do on TikTok and other social media platforms?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, the president is now requesting an additional 500 National Guard troops to be sent to Washington. And so far, officials say they still do not have a motive for that shooting that took place.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hate how things move so fast in this country. Like, you hear about two National Guard members getting killed. Before you can digest that, Trump is permanently pausing migration. You know, they're politicizing the situation already. Like, I don't. We don't even. Like you said, we don't even know what the motive was yet.

[Mimi Brown]

Exactly. So they're still investigating that. We're going to talk more to your point, Charlemagne, how fast the news cycle moves about Venezuela in the next hour. And we'll save that. But coming up at 7, a warning for anyone trying to stretch their dollar. This holiday season, it is officially Christmas season. We'll tell you about the scams popping up online and how you can avoid them.

[DJ Envy]

And today is Cyber Monday. Right? That's what the deals is. We'll talk about.

[Mimi Brown]

We're gonna get all into it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-58510. Let us know how your Thanksgiving week was, how your Thanksgiving was, How you feeling? If there's some things you need to get off your chest, like I said, phone lines are wide open. Call us up right now. 1-800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Who's this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's your name, bro? My name is Eric Every from the Bronze. Get it off your chest. Yeah, I'm just tired of all the politics.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just proud of all of it. Let's get done for the money, man.

[DJ Envy]

Huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said let's get done for the month. I'm with you. Let's just drink coquito and get high and just forget about everything for the. Till January 1st. I'm. I'm serious. Like, the bottom pictures are so real, man, that it's messing up the holiday season.

[DJ Envy]

Like, the holidays don't even.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the eyelids.

[DJ Envy]

There's so much that's going on in the world.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Contessa Gales]

I feel you.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, brother. Ah, y' all have a good one. You too. Hello? Who's this?

[Commercial Announcer]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's your name, bro?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, this. What's going on? This is Jimmy from the bx.

[DJ Envy]

Jimmy from the Brie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

X.

[DJ Envy]

What up? Get it off here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Too many people from the Bronx calling. Listen, I'm scared. Listen, Charlemagne. Charlemagne. Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

We already know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Afghan immigrant. We already know what he came to do. He came here to terrorize the United States. You got to stop picking and choosing on. On investigating stuff. You already know that. They terrorists or whatever. He came here to do harm. Who said that? I mean, I don't know that. I mean, he did do harm, but I don't know that. I don't know nothing about him. No, you just.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

You just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right now, you just say, oh, let's not rush your judgment or whatever.

[DJ Envy]

I did not say that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not too long ago. Crazy. I ain't say nothing about that. I said we don't know the motive. Yeah, that's. We don't know the mode, but we exactly know the motive. We can't. We got to slap sugar coated. I don't know the motive. We know the motive. He wanted to do harm. He wanted to instill fear. Hey, man, leave me alone. I just got here. I ain't got time. I just walked in the building. I really don't have time for this. I don't feel like this right now.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is Chi from Connecticut.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, T from Connecticut.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, Connecticut.

[Just Hilarious]

You better be getting tickets for the show this weekend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got you. I'mma go and get it.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

All right, cool.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm lying.

[Just Hilarious]

I know you lying. I just let you go in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I love you, though. I love you, too.

[Just Hilarious]

I love you, too. What's up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just wanted to say. Shout out to all of the parents that got their kids things throughout the years, that were blessed to get their kids things throughout the year so that this struggling Christmas season, we don't have to come out of pocket for damn near anything. Like, my kids, I asked them today, yesterday, I said, what y' all want for Christmas? They was like, we have everything. And I said, you know what? I am supposed to be broke.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's amazing. It's good when your kids. It's beautiful when your kids know you're broke.

[Lauren LaRosa]

At this point, they have more money than me in their little sandwich bags in their drawers. They dress the drawers like they. Yeah, well, I love you.

[Just Hilarious]

You don't sound down. You don't sound. You know what I mean? You. I love your energy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you gonna do? What you gonna do about it? But the day moves on, the year moves on, and. And money comes and goes, and you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got life, and you got. You got life and you got good health. Like, that's. That's the most important thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely. And I told y' all the last time I was on, like, when it comes down to my mental health, remember, I was telling y', all, I go to counseling. And that was one of the biggest things I went to counseling for. Financial stress is just terrible. Like, it wears on the body.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nope, you can't. You can't worry about stuff like that.

[Just Hilarious]

No, you can, but you know what.

[DJ Envy]

You need to do?

[Just Hilarious]

You know what you could do?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What can I do?

[Just Hilarious]

You can come to the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes. Yes, I'm in Hartford, Connecticut, at the Funny Bone Comedy Club, Friday and Saturday. How far are you from Hartford? You said you're in Connecticut?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's about an hour, give or take 45 minutes to an hour. It depends on the traffic.

[Just Hilarious]

Are you gonna be able to get there?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm in Norwalk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm in Norwalk.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, but are you going to be able to get there?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I could get there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got a car. They think you destit.

[DJ Envy]

Dollars for gas.

[Just Hilarious]

Because she said the kids got more.

[DJ Envy]

Money in their sandwich bag. You going to throw $20 for gas for J?

[Just Hilarious]

No, I'mma give her them free tickets.

[DJ Envy]

I'mma get her two other tickets. Hold on, Mama. Don't hang up.

[Just Hilarious]

Get your information.

[DJ Envy]

We got a show this weekend.

[Just Hilarious]

I got two shows this weekend. I'm in Harford, Connecticut, at the Funny Bone Comedy Club. We got two shows on Friday and two shows on Saturday, so I'll be there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, get her info now. Don't leave her on.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I got a hold. So you can grab it. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, Charlamagne. What up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He'll tell you what it is. Yeah.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, man? Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what's going on? It's Molly D, the electrician, man.

[DJ Envy]

I want to give a shout out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To the Breakfast Club. I just want to shout out all of my students that's graduated from this.

[DJ Envy]

Trade school I teach at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Word. Shout that out, please, man. We trying to encourage these kids to go to trade school. It sounds like you went underwater, man. Hello? But again, boy, the devil busy man.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to any all them students that are graduating trade school. Salute to Lincoln Tech. All the trade schools, whether it's welding, whether it's automotive, whether it's electrical, whether it's H Vac.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll talk about what else they have electricians.

[DJ Envy]

I said electrician health.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was talking to one of my homegirls yesterday. She's a teacher in Charleston. And I don't want to say the school she teach at, but it's like a critical need school. Oh, boy. And she was telling me about these kids. I was like, man, these kids can't be as bad as you saying. And then they was telling me about it, and I'm like, yeah, they all need to go to trade school. Just pull them out of high school, send them to trade school. Our teaching trades in high school, man.

[DJ Envy]

You know, trade school. I always tell people if. If you don't know what you want to do, but you want a job that hopefully AI can't take over, it's definitely a trade school. You need a trade. You'll be good money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they say the next generation of millionaires is going to be the Blue Coll workers. They need like a half a million, half a million skilled laborers over the next five years.

[DJ Envy]

Yep. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent. Hey, Lauren, how was Thanksgiving?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. Thanksgiving was great. My birthday was great. Yeah, I'm just floating. Y' all know I'm not pregnant, right? I am not pregnant. Thanks for checking.

[DJ Envy]

Did you accept his offer? Cuz he said, will you be my girlfriend?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I do. I know. I know what's not.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm just gonna See, yeah, he did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask you to be his girlfriend. He took you all the way out the country to ask you to be his girlfriend.

[DJ Envy]

Girlfriend. Did you accept?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now you talk about it pregnant and don't even know it.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Congrats on everything. I am not pregnant, okay? I'm birth control down over here you gotta worry about. No, you're not. But when it's time, I do need all the money and all the riches.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't cook you out the country to ask you to be his girlfriend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was my birthday. We'll talk about it, okay?

[Just Hilarious]

I think it's dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I want to talk about it. You've been up here saying all these things, and I was not there.

[Just Hilarious]

That's something that you're going to remember.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got to remember that.

[Just Hilarious]

That's really dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talking about the country to ask you to be his girlfriend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't feel like there should be a formal ask of like, will you be my girlfriend?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not leaving the country with you if I'm not your girlfriend already.

[Just Hilarious]

I mean, it's crazy to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe it's different 20, 25.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Or maybe it's just sad and embarrassed.

[DJ Envy]

You are.

[Just Hilarious]

So they've been dating all this time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For like 50 years.

[DJ Envy]

The latest is coming up. So don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight fact.

[DJ Envy]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody some.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. All right, y'.

[Contessa Gales]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So the holiday weekend was pretty festive for some. So we're going to start with Ray J and Princess Love. So over the. The holiday weekend on Thanksgiving morning, actually, Ray J was. He was arrested and he was charged with making a criminal. His bail was set to $50,000, which he later posted and everything was on live stream. So let's take a listen to Ray J and Princess Love. Get into it on Thanksgiving morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you trying to do?

[DJ Envy]

Take my kids.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm getting my kids.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, Take your kids. Watch how they cry. Take my kids to y' all drunk drive drunk princess, right? You just drive drunk. Drive drunk. Drive drunk princess. You and your drunk. Your drunk cousin. Cause y' all drunk as and y' all alcoholics. Take my kids then.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

Who's gonna drive?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Tony.

[DJ Envy]

He's been drinking, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Driving.

[DJ Envy]

Who's been driving? Everybody.

[Just Hilarious]

I didn't point nothing at y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Point a gun at us.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't point nothing at y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A gun at us.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yeah, whatever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All I wanted to do was have a good thing.

[DJ Envy]

Why did you wake my daughter up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're a woman abuser and you're delusional.

[Contessa Gales]

I'm a woman.

[DJ Envy]

That's what drunk say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Grow the up.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Seriously.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You.

[DJ Envy]

You're not taking my son.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I kill you, bro.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay? Let's stop. I'm trying to help you out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what you hear is.

[DJ Envy]

They hear a lot of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is not okay. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

That is not okay. Because the curse slid through. But.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, what. But basically what happened. And so I talked to Ray J, trying to kind of understand where all of this came from, because Princess Love later went and explained her side of it, and we'll listen to her as well. And she. Because we were all trying to figure out why they were together on Thanksgiving, being as though they're separate and they co parent. Like, what made them choose to be together? Because we know that sometimes they. Yeah, but they haven't had the best cordial relationship. So I just naturally would have assumed that they would have done Thanksgiving at two different places and figured that out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Princess did a whole thing where she.

[DJ Envy]

Explained why we're going to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what I'm saying is we're going to get to that, but backtracking it. I asked Ray J what was happening prior to this live stream and why did you go on live stream to do all of this? And he says that they got into a downstream. Yes, I spoke to Ray J. Yes. He says that they were prepping the food. You know, holidays, everybody's drinking, prepping food. And they got into a conversation about a woman that he's dealing with, Sheila, the woman that was up here with him. And he says that went left, and when that one left, things kind of got under control. He says He. He claims he went on live stream because he wanted to have an account of things from his point of view, because everyone else was recording in the house. So then we see or we hear all of the chaos break out. He says that the police were called. You hear the police actually come into the house later on in the live stream. And Ray J alleges there were like 14 police officers that showed up. The kids are screaming, crying. Everything's happening. And then he's taken away. Now he also is saying to me that he did not pull the gun on Princess Love. In the live stream, you do see him with a gun. When he says that someone is coming up to grab his kids, he says that it was because of her cousin husband, the guy that you hear tackle Ray J. But he says that he would never have pulled a gun on his kid and his, you know, kid's mom. Now, Princess Love did go online and speak from her point of view and clear up things on her. And I did reach out to her, but haven't heard back anything additional than this video. Let's take a listen. I just want to say I've been.

[Contessa Gales]

Doing a really great job at protecting my peace.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love my kids and I would never do anything to put them in danger. Danger including leaving them with a man who's waving a gun around.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm the best mother and I do it alone.

[Contessa Gales]

While you're out here running around the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

World terrorizing women and abusing women. What I'm not about to do is let you deflect and not take accountability for your actions, for pulling a gun out on me and my cousin's husband.

[Mimi Brown]

Because I was trying to take my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Kids and leave your house.

[Contessa Gales]

I agreed to come over there and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cook for Thanksgiving because I wanted you to be around your kids with me present. Because the last time I left them with you, they found you naked in a bed with a woman. And when I tried to ask you.

[Contessa Gales]

About it, you told me to myself.

[Just Hilarious]

And that I don't run over there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take accountability, Ray. Do better check yourself into rehab because you're more than drunk. Everything I do, I do for my kids, including being around you when I don't want to or have to. I'm going to continue to pray for you and pray that you get the help that you need.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So the woman that she's mentioning, Ray J. Told me is was Sheila as well. And he said that the way that the incident happened, it wasn't like he was just like aimlessly walking around with this woman in front of his kids. The house is separate where they were upstairs, there's nannies and he's back and forth. And then he was there with her. But it didn't happen. He's a legend. It didn't happen the way that she's saying it. But he's also alleging that he didn't pull the gun on her. And at this point, too, I've asked him, like, have you been able to talk to your kids because they're screaming at the top of their lungs at the end of that first recording. Have you been able to talk to Them to just make sure they're okay. He says he hasn't talked to his kids and he probably won't until after everything ends. And he's talking about. He goes back to court on December 19th for this incident. So, yeah, that's where they've left off at this point.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder how much law enforcement uses social media content for situations like this. I'm sure a lot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A lot, probably. Yeah, they use it a lot in other situations, so I don't know why they wouldn't in this one.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's not my business, but I wonder why Ray would have Sheila around his kids if he had his kids. You know what I mean? Unless that was his girl and they were, you know, thinking about moving on. Like, would you have your kids around somebody you just knocking off? Like, isn't that kind of weird?

[Just Hilarious]

Not really, but that's. I mean, yeah, it's weird to answer your question. But, I mean, that's his girlfriend, right? I mean, he was just up here. He told. That was his girl, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't remember.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He couldn't really answer.

[DJ Envy]

He didn't say that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but he.

[Just Hilarious]

Because I know everything is like, for the antics and like the show.

[DJ Envy]

The TV show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

But, you know, you just never know what is. You know, you just. I don't believe anything I see online when it comes from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I believe what I saw just now. And I don't like none of it.

[Just Hilarious]

No, not that I'm talking about, like with his relationship with the girl Sheila, like the press run that they doing. I mean, he got a show on Zeus that he's trying to promote as well. So, I mean, I don't know if I believe that relationship. But if he was to have his kids around her, I mean, it would be because that's his girlfriend, I guess. I mean, who knows?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just wonder what makes people say I'm gonna go live with this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, he. Like, why I asked him that and I said. I told him. I'm like, you know how stupid that was to see you on Live with a gun in your hand.

[Just Hilarious]

But he literally said to Cam.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

New.

[Just Hilarious]

Did he say to Cam or some. One of those interviews that he did where he's like, yo, as long as I'm going down on a decline, whatever is negative, it sells. Like, nobody sees the good. I do because I have to pay for people to post that. I don't gotta pay for blogs to post anything negative about me. So I crash out literally willingly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This isn't it much. Cause now you see the Kick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now he's banned from Twitch for life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He is banned. He had to go over to Kik once he got released. We have that audio. But he said he went live to protect himself. Let's take a listen to him after he was released on Kickstarter.

[DJ Envy]

I just got out of jail.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's not cool.

[DJ Envy]

Jail was not okay, bro. Just arguing with this in here and off in jail. It's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, bro.

[DJ Envy]

I almost beat them full time because I'm like, bro, I'm trying to survive in here, bro. Under his bed, bro. It was crazy. Almost beat that under his bed, bro. Talking about Ray J. Ray J.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a lot.

[DJ Envy]

Never go to jail, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. It was really bad.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, we banned from Twitch permanently forever. We'll never be able to go back on Twitch. Yeah, we just transferred over. They banned me permanently because I was defending my kids. But it's cool. I'm not worried about bro.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't work for none of these.

[DJ Envy]

I don't work for nobody we work with. So he did show the gun. Cause I didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, you don't see him pull it or point it at Princess Love. In the videos I saw, you just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Saw him holding a gun.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You do see, but you do still.

[Just Hilarious]

Hold hear him threatening to shoot the ish out of somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This the guy that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That rushed in. Yeah. See, that's why I don't see how going live protects him in this situation. Because if somebody accuses you of pointing a gun at them and then you in the video with a gun, you know, people just gonna start piecing all types of things together.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I don't see how that helped him in this situation.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't either.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. He's claiming it's because they were. The guy was trespassing because he shouldn't have been upstairs in his home.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I understood that now. Yeah. When I saw the random guy come in, I understood that because I didn't know who that dude was. But once again, we don't know the context. We just know he went live in that moment. We don't know everything that happened around that situation.

[DJ Envy]

Well, the guy was her cousin's husband, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And. And he says that he came upstairs because Princess left, told him to come and help her get the kids, but he. Ray J said basically that crossed the line. Princess, of course you're gonna come get the kids. Do what you're gonna do. I ain't gonna argue with you. He said he would never put it. He wasn't gonna put his Hands on or anything like that either. But the husband, he said that that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crossed a lot in his room and.

[Just Hilarious]

Tried to get his kids out of his bed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They did get the kids out the bed. They were sleeping. Yeah. So, yeah, there's gonna be more because he will go be in court in a few weeks. So we'll keep you guys updated.

[DJ Envy]

All right, that's the latest for Lauren. We come back, we got front page news, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news now. The Bengals beat the Ravens. Dolphins beat the Saints. Jets beat the Falcons.

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Panthers beat the Rams. Buccaneers beat the Cardinals. The Bills beat the Steelers. Charges beat the Raiders. Seahawks beat the Vikings. The Jaguars beat the Titans. The Browns lost to the 49ers. Texans beat the Colts. The Bears beat the Eagles. And the Cowboys beat the Chiefs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And tonight in Monday Night Football, the Giants will get their ass kicked by the New England Patriots. The Giants don't even care no more. It's over. It's fine. It's all right. I mean, they ain't cared all season.

[DJ Envy]

We're gonna be good next year.

[Just Hilarious]

What's your record?

[DJ Envy]

Be like two and something.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn. Something.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Something. Okay, like two and eight. Two and nine. Something, something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two and nine, I believe. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Mimi? Get me out of here.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm coming for you, Envy. So good morning, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. Oh, two and ten, actually, Mimi, two in ten. I'm sorry to intend to judge.

[Mimi Brown]

I was trying to move fast. I'm sorry. He stopped me. All right, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, to new fallout this morning over those US Military strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean. Those strikes have now killed over 80 people, according to a Washington Post report. Defense Secretary Pete Hess said he allegedly told troops to, quote, kill everybody during an operation in early September. And sources familiar with the mission say a second strike was later carried out that killed the survivors of that first hit. And the Pentagon hasn't confirmed those allegations. But the allegations alone, they have triggered bipartisan oversight on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are now looking into whether the missions broke U.S. or international law. And the administration, they. They maintain that the people killed were, quote, narco terrorists tied to foreign terrorist organizations and that the strikes are legal because drug cartels have been labeled as terrorist groups under the Trump administration. Meanwhile, Hegseth. He's pushing back. He's calling the report fake news and insisting the strikes were aimed at Stopping drug smuggling boats. And President Trump, he's defending him to a group of reporters this weekend on Air Force One. Let's listen to that exchange.

[DJ Envy]

He didn't even know what people were talking about. So we'll look at, we'll look into it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, I wouldn't have wanted that.

[DJ Envy]

Not a second strike. The first strike was very lethal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was fine.

[DJ Envy]

And if there were two people around.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Pete said that didn't happen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Does that make you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have great confidence. You say he has no second strike. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I'm going to find out about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Pete said he did not order the death of those two men.

[Mimi Brown]

Do you have any concerns about how those boat strikes have been carried out at all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very little, because you can see the boats, you, the drugs in the boats. So the president doesn't need to be briefed beforehand.

[DJ Envy]

I thought he did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He don't know about the second scratch. So I'm trying to figure out it.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. Well, the president also says that he's going to pardon the former president of Honduras who was serving 45 years for helping cartels move cocaine into the U.S. now, Trump said that the president, the former president of Honduras, he was treated unfairly. But some lawmakers, they are noting the contrast that the administration is striking. Alleged narco terrorists on boats while pardoning a leader convicted of drug trafficking. And meanwhile, the president is ordering the airspace over Venezuela close as the US Increases its military presence there. So we'll continue to watch what's happening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk about a lack of consistency. Jesus Christ.

[Mimi Brown]

For sure. A lot of people are pointing that out. And now to a story in Northern California where investigators are searching for whoever opened fire at a child's birthday party in Stockton, a mass shooting that left four people dead, including three children and 11 others injured. Officials say more than 100 people were inside a banquet hall on Saturday evening when the shooting started indoors and spilled outside. The Victims were just 8, 9 and 14 years old, along with a 21 year old adult. Officials believe this was a targeted attack and are asking the community for surveillance, video tips, even rumors that could possibly help identify the shooter. On Sunday, families returned to the scene to collect their children's birthday gifts and belongings. City and county leaders, they are calling on the shooters to come forward. They are urging neighbors to come forward with any information. I've been in touch with Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee, who grew up in the area and has been with families on the ground. He spoke at a prayer vigil yesterday, urging families to stay calm and to not retaliate as families begin to process their trauma. Let's listen to some of that.

[DJ Envy]

But what I will say to the people that did this is it's never been gangster to kill kids. Never. It's never been gangster to kill kids. You went in a, in a birthday party and shot people's children. Parents brought their children out and they left with medical examiners. That is not human. That is not human. And, and I will say to those who are thinking of retaliation. When my brother got murdered, I thought about it too. It's human to want to hurt people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who hurt people you love.

[DJ Envy]

But I had a choice to make. And I hope that the people out in our community make the right choice. And contact law enforcement. Call me, call the mayor, call whoever you know, call the pastors, call your friend. Turn yourself in. Because at some point, the redemption for what you did is gonna happen when you see the person that created you. But you can start that process by turning yourself in and doing the right thing today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Jason is right. But whatever happens to those people, happens to them, man. F them. You know, that's how I feel. Like you gotta find them type of folks and bury them under the jail or, or whatever happens in the process of, you know, them getting caught, it just, you know, whatever happens to them happens. I can care less. You pull up to a birthday party and shoot off all those shots and kill kids. Come on, man. Can you imagine?

[DJ Envy]

No, I can't imagine. That's just. Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I don't want it.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Goodbye.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[DJ Envy]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No band likes each other after 2020.

[DJ Envy]

Years or 25 years. Like the Beatles broke up in seven.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And a half years and we're going on 35. Listen to earsay the Audible and iheart audiobook club on the iheartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine. God bless those families, man that gotta deal with that during the holiday season. Oh my God, right before Christmas, man.

[Mimi Brown]

Very, very sad. The city says counselors will available at school this week, especially since one of the youngest victims, she was a student in the district and her parents worked for the school system. The district attorney is urging the shooter or the shooters to turn themselves in. And Stockton is now offering a 25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old are these kids, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Did they say they were eight, nine points?

[Contessa Gales]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And the oldest one was 21 as an adult. But there are still 11 others injured. So we'll continue to watch and see, see, you know, what their progress is. We don't know this morning, but there's been 380 mass shootings in the US so far this year. And that a mass shooting is where four more people have been shot. So it's a very sad situation.

[DJ Envy]

So thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Of course, that's your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit binnews.com Peace, Mimi.

[Richie Reseda]

Me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now when we come back, we have James, JJ88 Jacobs, Contessa Gales and Richie Reseda. When we come back, they have a new documentary. It's called Songs from the Hole. Now it's a documentary that details James's life. He was convicted of murder as a teenager. When he got to jail a day later he found out that his brother had died and brother got killed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. A lot of people have been watching it on Netflix. So I can't wait to talk about it with.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, we're gonna talk to him next about it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne. We are the Breakfast Club. Lon Laros is here today. We got some special guests in the building from the documentary on Netflix, Songs from the Hole. We have James Jacobs, JJ88. We have Contessa Gales and Richie Racia.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Welcome.

[DJ Envy]

How you guys feeling?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's on Netflix right now, by the way.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. How y' all feeling?

[Richie Reseda]

Great.

[DJ Envy]

Feeling good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy to be here.

[DJ Envy]

Now for people that have. You haven't seen the documentary? Break down what the documentary is about.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Well, it's a documentary visual album. We tell the story of my life. When I was 15, I was incarcerated for second degree murder. And during that time I spent 18 years in prison. And during that time I wrote an album. I met him. We produced and recorded that album in prison. And I wrote the visuals. We met Contessa and grew to this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to ask you something. You know, at 15 you committed a crime. It was murder. And then three days later your brother was killed.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how did those Two events so close together, I guess, shape your sense of identity and ultimately give you purpose, I guess.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Oh, yeah. Well, at first it took me down like a really dark, like, mental place. And after coming through, like, you know, suicidal ideations and just at first I just felt like. At first I just felt kind of purposeless. I took a Life, which at 15 is kind of hard to hold, and really recognize the gravity of it. But by the time I was 18 and in prison, I just kind of felt worthless and without hope and. And losing my brother within that span was kind of like he was kind of who I was emulating and admiring growing up. So it really devastated me. However, like, through music, it's like it kind of gave me a place to talk about it and talk about what me and the homies was just experiencing, what me and my family went through. And so through, I guess through music is where I kind of found purpose in my story and where I could use it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to talk about when you was 15, man, because you said something that I often feel like with these kids and all of us were kids, at some point you make a terrible choice. A temporary decision that leads. I mean, a temporary feeling leads to a permanent decision. Do you really understand the consequences of your actions at that time?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

I mean, not in the way that I do now. When you 15, you know, I mean, I think when I was a kid, I knew if you shoot someone, they could die. Like, I know that I've seen people die, I've seen violence in my community, but I don't think I knew what it meant for real. Like, the finality of it at 15, I don't think I knew truly at 15, the impact it was having not only on this person, but their family. When there's people that I got back in touch with since I got home who were there that night and had to witness that, and that night altered their life. And I didn't learn that until I was in my 30s. So at 15, you don't understand the gravity of it, but you do understand that it is serious. And the older I got, the more mature I became, the more I understood how serious it is. Which is why we made this film for real now.

[DJ Envy]

You were charged as an adult, not a child. Why was that?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Cause California is racist.

[Richie Reseda]

To put it simple.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. At 15, serving 18 years, it just seems like in any other state, you would have been charged as a child and given a second chance, another opportunity.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Nah, they doing it in other states too. They charge kids as adults because they want to take Away futures. And they have a belief in this, like, punishment system. We live in a culture where revenge is normal. We value it as a culture. Revenge is something that we explore. Me being a perpetrator of murder and having my brother murdered is something that I had to face for myself, you know, know. So the reason why they charge us as adults when we're kids is because they believe in revenge. They believe in retribution. They believe in eye for an eye.

[Lauren LaRosa]

At 15 years old, when you were standing in front of the judge not really understanding what's happening in your sentence in the doc, you talk about looking over to your attorney and being like, so when am I going home? Yeah, right at that moment. As a kid, what did you need outside of just being locked away behind bars? Like, what could they have given you that would have actually, like, in that moment, helped you reform?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Do you mean, like, after I. I've committed murder? Like, what to offer a kid?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, like what. What should be the, you know, the rehabilitation of a person that is 15 years old that murders a person?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

I don't know what it should be. I can tell you what I did. What, what helped me was like just having safe places to talk about it. So I didn't. To talk about what I had done. I don't think I needed to necessarily be locked away. Once I committed murder, I knew it was foul. I felt the seriousness of it. It wasn't like I was. I wasn't celebrated by my homies. So I knew that this was not the move to make, but I needed to understand why. And I didn't get that opportunity. Opportunity. In court, they don't give you an opportunity to understand why you are in this moment, how serious it is that. That you have taken a life and there's no plan to help you mature through it and process it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, you said you weren't celebrated. You also talk a lot about how you thought, like, you know, this is kind of like a song. Like, we talk about it in songs. The song is over, you know, so you had an idea of what you thought committing a crime would be like, and then you actually find yourself committing the crime.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

I mean, that's true for a lot of my homies. We listen to music and this is no, like, condemnation on, like, hip hop and the music we grow up on. I think it's just true that when I listened to music as a kid, when I watched films as a kid and I saw violence, it didn't seem, you know, the film cuts off and then I see the. On the red Carpet. Excuse me. I see him on the red carpet. Like, it's regular. You don't really understand that that person in that story didn't come back in real life. And so as a kid, I thought, you know, in 2003, 2004, I was listening to Get Rich or Die Trying. And like, that was the epitome of being a gangster. And so once I realized after, you know, as a kid, it's not. It ain't just a song wrong. It. Like, when you go back to your homies, they gonna look at you and they gonna be scared of you. They gonna look at you and they gonna have real fear. Like, what did you just do? The homies asked me what you just do, fool. What did you do? Like, why did you do that? The homie. Everybody I know who. Who had a murder in prison, like, they. None of them got dapped up when they homies found out. Everybody got nah for what they might talk about it in. In even like, they tell. They tell war stories, sure. But it's like not. Not after it happened. I don't know nobody who got dapped up directly after, like, oh, we did that. Let's go. Is in that car quiet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dealing with the gravity.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Smoking, drinking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Trying to numb out them is seriously quiet. Yeah, yeah, it ain't no game.

[DJ Envy]

Like, that's.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

That's what I came to realize that, you know, you. You take a life. It ain't. It ain't. It ain't fun. It's not. It's not honorable to me, especially in the context of. Of just regular street, like contestant Richie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How'd y' all connect with James to help him tell the story? So what.

[Contessa Gales]

What ADA didn't share was that he wrote the music that's in the film in solitary confinement. After he got out of solitary, he transferred to the prison where Richie was at that. And that's how they met. You could talk about how they collaborated more on the music, but I met the both of them when I was filming a documentary for cnn. I used to work at cnn. And the last project I did for them was a feature called the Feminist.

[Lauren LaRosa]

On Cell Black Y.

[Contessa Gales]

And it was about a group that Richie had co founded in prison and was leading for his fellow incarcerated men, where they're reading feminist literature like bell hooks and, you know, learning about patriarchy and how it shows up in their lives and unlearning it. So Richie was leading that group, and 88 was a participant and a co facilitator of that group. And that was the first time That I heard a little bit of 88's story. And it was the last day of filming that documentary had nothing to do with the group. But the two of them were in the prison gym and it was Richie's last day at the prison. He was about to be transferred to finish his sentence somewhere else else. And they had the prison rental keyboard and. And Richie had the keyboard on a trash can. And 88 was singing and rapping some of those songs that he wrote in solitary. And there was a group of the guys gathered around and like, they knew all the lyrics. So you could tell, like, this is, you know, something that they've been sharing. And I was just struck by, like, how powerful the music was, how much storytelling there was in 88's lyrics. But I didn't know the content context of, you know, his story and the relationship between that and the music and how he came to the hole and writing that music in the hole. Fast forward a year after that film came out. They both approached me about, you know, would you want to work on a visual album using 88's music? You know, you heard some of it. I was like, send me what you got. And I once I like, listened to the recordings and really like over the course of our development, got to know more about how 88 came to the Hole and then writing the music there and then what they were able to do inside producing a whole album. I knew that we had something really special that could really be a testimony, like 88's story is a testimony. And the music is so impactful in being able to hold the narrative and tell his story. So we started collaborating from there and really evolved our relationship from this like, kind of more traditional space of like journalistic. I was the filmmaker, they were the film participants to like co collaborators on this project. And it was a true collaboration. Like 88 was inside the whole time. We were eight months into the edit when he was released. And we managed to figure out how to collaborate across the prison walls through phone calls, through letters, you know, 15 minute phone calls at a time. That's how we met.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got a two part question for you, 88.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you gonna ask Richie how they met? Because I know you asked both of them, but Richie didn't.

[Contessa Gales]

Yeah, Richie can fill in more though.

[Richie Reseda]

I had met 88 while I was in prison. I had just released an album from prison, so everybody at the prison kind of knew me as a producer. So when 88 got to the yard, the people who knew him from other prisons were like, you got to meet 88. You got to meet 88. And, you know, I wasn't. A lot of everybody in prison think they can rap, just like everybody on the streets think they can rap. You know what I'm saying? I wasn't in a rush to meet him necessarily.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was like, okay.

[Richie Reseda]

But when I did meet him, we have a homie named Talib who was trying to put together a poetry book. So he was bringing all these artists together, and we had met in the. In the law library, and I heard him rap and sing, and I was blown away, honestly. He could both rap and sing very well, which a lot of people can't do. Usually they do one well, and then the other they kind of do for fun. And the story he was telling and the position he had on it, it's not an easy thing to make music that doesn't necessarily glorify or judge the streets. And I was like, yo, let's. Let's. Let's make this album.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all had all the equipment in jail. Y' all were able to have the equipment in jail.

[Richie Reseda]

Nah, we broke the rules, okay? The way that we made the album was against the rules.

[DJ Envy]

Well, y' all out now. So I said, how did you do it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because.

[Richie Reseda]

But I can't tell you, because there's people in who still make music that way. But, yeah, the way we made this album in prison was completely against the rules. The prison was against it in every way. They ran up in my cell, they threatened to send me to the hole for making music, and.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

But it was like, they denied me at board for making music.

[DJ Envy]

Really.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

I was able to be a part of a collaboration that Richie was eping and. And it featured incarcerated artists and free artists. And when I got to board, they named that as, like, a reason why I was a danger to society, is that you make music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Yeah.

[Richie Reseda]

It's important to point out he had life. He wasn't sentenced to 18 years. He was sentenced to 40 years to double life. So, you know, we didn't know when 88 was coming home. We knew spiritually he was coming home, but we didn't know when he was coming home. So when we finished the album, we were like. Like, you know, typically, you finish, you do an album, then you tour it. And we didn't have that opportunity with him, so we were like, let's do a visual album. And that's kind of how this. The idea began. Then we approached Contessa, and she built it out to an actual film.

[DJ Envy]

One other question. Is it true that you can't profit off of a crime that was done. Is that true?

[Richie Reseda]

So in California, the way that the law is written is that basically you can't take. If you're incarcerated in California, you can't talk about your crime in a way that makes you money, so you can't write a book about it and make money. You can't make music about it or a film or anything and make money. All the. All of that typically has to go to the people who are impacted by. About the crime. And 88 case is unique in that his. He didn't. The album in the film is not about the fact that he harmed somebody, but rather that. That he had committed harm and he had been harmed, that his brother was murdered. So. But we also didn't release it until he got out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

During your time in solitary confinement, 88, like, you turned music into a lifeline, right? Like, what was the moment you realized music was an escape for you? And I know that probably what kept you sane in the hole.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Yeah, as soon as I got in, when I. As soon as I got locked up, I knew I grew up with music. I grew up in a church. I grew up singing. I grew up rapping. I started, like, writing in about the seventh grade. So when I got locked up up, you don't know what the hell to do when you're a kid just in a box kind of. You're just sitting there thinking you're listening different sounds. And suddenly next to me, this. The cell. Next to me is the homie. We call him Johnny West. Jonathan Marquez, he beating on the bed and he rapping, but he rapping radio songs. Some of his, you know, he was rapping some of his stuff, but mostly he was just rapping songs that we. We all knew. And so I was like, hey, yo. I yelled through the van, like, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I couldn't.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

I could rap too. Like, when we come out, we gonna rap. We get to the day room, he beat on the table. And when I perform, like, these little chicken ass. Excuse my language. These little, like, you know, raps I wrote in this cell, the, you know, the kids is kind of like, yo, you hard. And it's like changing the environment. So when I realized, like, oh, I could impact people around me just by, you know, occupying our time, they not, like, annoyed trying to get away from me. They, like, spit that song. I started to do it more, and then I shared it with my father, who is an elder in the church and doesn't listen to hip hop. And he's just like, well, you know, son, music brings people joy. So if you share your gift with them and become their joy, they will protect their joy. And so share your gift with people, and you'll see that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is that the moment you realize that music can also be your voice?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

I mean, I've always known music was a medium to, like, express myself and use my voice. It was gonna come in some oratory fashion for me, my dad being a pastor, my mom being a singer. I knew, like, the power of. Of my voice. I just didn't know the significance of it. Sometimes I still don't, but I didn't know that it could be meaningful to write what's happening in my life to be meaningful, that people would actually value it and care about it, until I started to see the impact I was having on the yard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Contessa. There's footage in the doc that shows a time when 88 and his family was still fighting for him to get out of prison. What made you see the value in his story before knowing he'd be free tonight?

[Contessa Gales]

Hmm. The value to me was the music itself. And, you know, I think we can. We can share a little bit. I hope folks go watch the film on Netflix. But the whole story is leading up to the moment where 88 realizes that he's incarcerated, with the person who killed his brother knowing that. And what happened after that. Maybe that's the part I won't say, or. Well, but that there was, like, so much power for healing and transformation if people heard this story to. To understand that. That, you know, what we were talking about in terms of, like, our culture's obsession and reliance on retribution and punishment and revenge. Like, we can choose something else in our interpersonal relationships and systemically. So that's what drew me to it. But, no, we had no idea that. That 88 would have the opportunities that he had to. To come home. Like Richie said, He had 40 years to life plus life. Life. And we kind of structured the whole narrative arc of the story around spiritual freedom and, like, internal healing and freedom. And that's, you know, each music video treatment kind of builds on that. Healing the younger self. We didn't know that we would have the ending that we would have in the film when we started and once those opportunities started picking up. So we're following, you know, his family going to court. What's condensed down in the film was two and a half years of going to court and then commutation from the governor. We had to follow it in real time because it was so it was relevant to the story, but it really was never a film about. Because I think there's a lot of films about incarceration where it's centered on does the person get to come home and do we all get to celebrate at the end if they come home? We wanted to resist the that because we really wanted it to feel like everyone watching this had a entry point into their own healing. So to make it about the spiritual journey was more satisfying for me creatively and I think for all of us spiritually. But then, you know, we got the other ending.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

The, the legal reason why I got home is, Is irrelevant because it's not legality that's going to get us free for the incarcerated and for us as a people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On that, brother, because I like, which I think I like where you're going with this. Expound on that.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Like, so what, what I'm saying is like, we, we participate in this system, we vote, we pay our taxes, we do the thing and it's not working. It's not working for nobody. So it's. It's working for the people who set it up. That's true. True. It's working for, for, you know, some, but it's for, for us, the system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is working for the people it was designed to work for.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

For us, it's a different story. And so it. My logic tell me it ain't gonna be that. That get me free.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I agree with that. I've been, I've been running that thought in my mind lately. Like, I think that we're just past the point of any political solutions.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

No, you know, we need freedom. Freedom now.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was gonna ask, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Richie, Richie, about to say something.

[Richie Reseda]

I was just gonna quickly say. It's, it's. If you think about it like, it's kind of silly to even believe that a system that was also set up by other flawed human beings is perfect and that just by following the rules or voting or just like following the system that someone else set up, that that's all that's needed in when our problems are so great. Like, actually, I think it calls upon us to say, okay, we can look at how this system is an improvement from, you know, the feudal system and kings and queens and serfs and. Okay, we've improved from there and there is much more improvement that needs to be done if we're going to live in integrity with each other in the earth.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to ask. You know, it's hard not to talk about this because you really want people.

[Mimi Brown]

To see it Right.

[DJ Envy]

You want people to see the ins and outs of this documentary. But I do want to ask about forgiveness. Right. I was talking to Lauren earlier, and she was like, certain things I just can't forgive.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Forgive, right?

[DJ Envy]

She was like, I can't. Like, you know, my family can and I can't. And I think Charlemagne knows me. There's certain things I ain't forgiven. It's like. It just is what it is.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

It's just.

[DJ Envy]

How did you find. I would say. I don't even want to say the courage, but how did you break down and be able to forgive somebody, especially the person that you know killed your brother?

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[DJ Envy]

Like, when did that happen? Was it immediately? Did it take some time? Was it talking to your dad, who's a pastor? When.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

When I met him, I had to make a decision. It is not a superpower. It is not an impossibility to, you know, all due respect to the things you say you can't forgive, it's not.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just not there yet. I'll get there one day. I'm just not there yet.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

But truly, it's a matter of choosing it. It's a matter of saying to me, this is how I define forgiveness for myself in the moment. You. You kill my brother, right? How you get that back? How? He gone. Can't. Gone. What do. What do you owe me now? Because that's what we're talking about in retribution and in a retaliatory like system, it's like, now you owe me. So this man Jay killed my brother. Now you owe me. What do you owe me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me?

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

You owe me, my brother. What's the value of my brother's life? It ain't even yours. It ain't even your life. For real. Your life is valued differently than my brother. So I can't just take your life. So now I know you can't pay me back, so what I'm gonna do, be mad my whole life? I know you can't give it back. I know you can't. That's first for. For forgiveness. I know you can't pay that debt. So forgiveness to me is releasing within myself what I think you owe me because you hurt me. It's just letting go. This idea that you gonna somehow give it back or you gonna somehow realize that you owe it. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with me letting go of what it is. I think you owe me because you did me sour right now. Add to that I did somebody foul. I did a number of somebody's foul throughout my life. And I am not like, that's not my legacy that I want to leave. It's not something that I want to be like. I want to be known for hurting people. Nobody wants to be known for hurting people. And when you hurt someone as seriously as I have and you, you want to be accountable for it, then you got to look at all the parts.

[DJ Envy]

Of your life but you are accountable. If that individual wasn't accountable.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Accountable, no, no. If he wasn't accountable, it don't make no difference. Are you accountable? Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Question. Don't you got to give. You would have to give the person who killed your brother the same grace. You would want the people, the family that you know you killed to give you. Right.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

That's true. And, and, and I think that was clear for me. But I do not think that that is a requirement for forgiveness, that you have to do an equal harm in order to forgive somebody who has harmed you. Because the truth is we all commit harm daily in some form or another. And I think when for me to forgive, I knew I wanted it in my life. I was trying to be as accountable as I could be growing up in prison. But I knew I wanted forgiveness more than I wanted anything. Because forgiveness symbolized being restored back to my community. It symbolized me being restored back to my value that my grandmother sees when she look at me, you know? But I know the more and more I become accountable, forgiveness isn't something I can ask for. It's not even I just took everything. Or I took a lot.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control So I.

[DJ Envy]

Have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no band likes each other after.

[DJ Envy]

20 years or 25 years. Like the Beatles broke up in seven and a half years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we're going on 35. Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iheart audiobook club on the iheartradio app or wherever you get your podcast.

[DJ Envy]

From.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

You. And now I'm gonna ask you to give me something else, like give me grace. That's not something I feel willing to ask for. However, what I can do is plant the seed in the universe. I can plant the seed in my daily walk and in the way I live. And maybe it'll come back. Maybe it'll come to somebody who needs it in my life. But either way, a friend of mine, Chris Wacknick, used to always say, sow a seed from your greatest need. Need what you need the most. Go give it to somebody.

[DJ Envy]

Songs from the Hole the documentary neck on Netflix right now. Definitely check it out. And we appreciate you guys for joining.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Thank y' all for having us, truly.

[DJ Envy]

James JJ 88 Jacobs, Contessa Gales and Richie Small R Receiver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you so much.

[Just Hilarious]

Becoming a street fan.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so the Reckoning, which is a new Diddy documentary, will stream on Netflix on December 2nd and it will be brought to us by 50 Cent. So 50 Cent is the executive producer of the documentary and then Alexandria Stapleton, who's an award winning director, is also helping him bring this product project to Netflix. Now Today this morning, 50 Cent will in Alexandria will be on Good Morning America. That goes live at 8am and we'll actually be revisiting once they're actually live so that we can kind of talk about what they're talking about and some exclusive details just around the full situation and looking at things from both sides, from Diddy's side but also 50 cent side. So we'll be back with some more exclusives in the next hour. But the background and the premise of this documentary is basically it's supposed to be a conversation about how the industry is puts Celebrities on a pedestal. And when you do that, what this means. So Alexandria Stapleton says this isn't about the story of Sean Combs or the story of Cassie or the story of any of the victims or the allegations against him or the trial. Ultimately, this story is a mirror reflecting us as the public and what we are saying when we put our celebrities on such a high pedestal. Now, I'm gonna be honest with y'. All. A lot of people thought that 50 Cent was kind of like just trolling when he was talking about doing this documentary.

[Just Hilarious]

I thought he was too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't really know because you just never know what 50 Cent. But for Netflix to be the platform that he's doing it on, When I saw it, I was like, oh, wow. Okay. Only because Diddy has come after other places that have done documentaries. So he's currently suing, and this has been since February, for $100 million. NBC Peacock over a documentary that they did where they, they. His team alleges that they didn't vet a lot of the claims and documents documentary. I think it's smart that 50 Cent waited until everything happened to do the documentary, but it is just a dicey situation to be in.

[DJ Envy]

Didn't TMZ do one too?

[Lauren LaRosa]

TMZ did a couple documentaries. Well, see, but a lot of. A lot of what? Normally when you do these documentaries, the attorneys want you to reach out and vet claims and allegations and get both sides. Diddy's attorneys are claiming that, like with the NBC Peacock situation, and they said to them, hey, these things aren't true. And they still added certain things in a documentary that then certain lawsuits were dropped about and like, whatever. So they went forward with their lawsuit. So, yeah, there's a way that you can do it where you can protect yourself legally, but we'll see. They're supposed to have never before seen video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm interested in. Yeah, I heard him say that in the clip he posted last night from Robin Roberts. I'm wondering what this never before seen video.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So they actually begin rolling it out, and we'll have that in the next hour. One of the videos is actually. You guys remember, Diddy was here in New York in that hotel waiting to turn himself in, but they ended up going and just getting him and locking him up. There's video from that time where he's actually going back and forth with his attorneys about this situation. Yeah. So this one's going to be a, A, A really close look. As you know, we figure out what it was like as Diddy was heading to jail. So we'll be back with more in the next hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's what it's about, Diddy, when he's headed to jail.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's, it's a timeline. So I'm, I'm assuming it's going to start when the claims first started because they do mention Cassie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't assume. Do you know, I'm telling you what.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The Netflix rundown says. So according to Netflix rundown, they're going to, it's going to encompass everything, but they don't want it just to be about Cassie or just to be about victims or just to be about Diddy. So it seems like it's going to be the timeline of everything we've talked about up here, things we've never seen, interviews they say with people that are close or were close in Diddy's orbit. But the bigger conversation is how did we get here? But we'll be back with more and I'll have some exclusive details.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you, I wonder. That's going to be interesting because 50 Cent is a rapper, right? And 50 Cent is a rapper who, who's, I guess, considered. You consider him a gangster rapper. Right. And you know him and Eminem and doctor, how do you, how do you hold a mirror up to hip hop without holding the mirror up to yourself as well?

[Lauren LaRosa]

There's a lot of people that have been asking that question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to see it. I want to see how they did this based off what you just read us. I want to see.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, it would be pretty interesting.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I want to see what it's about. Like what the documentary is about. Is it just the rise of a, a hip hop person or if it's based off of the sexual assault, you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Know, seems like it's going to touch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On a little bit.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, no, not tomorrow. We'll see next hour. You heard that it goes live this today. We'll see next hour. Now in other news, taking a completely.

[DJ Envy]

Different documentary comes out today. The interview drops today, but the documentary actually.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, document. Yeah, but you'll see some of the video. Yeah, December 2nd. But you'll see some of the video they gave exclusively to gma. I know because I tried to get it for us, but they said they couldn't because they had a situation with GMA already. But yeah, so we'll see, see and talk about some stuff in the next hour. Now, in other news, Candy Burris and Todd Tucker. So I know you guys reported on their divorce and you know, all the things after 11 years now over how.

[DJ Envy]

Do you say, you know, we reported. When you wrote. She wrote the stuff for me. She wrote the script for me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I made sure you stayed up to date. But over the weekend, holiday weekend, Candy had posted a photo of, like, their Thanksgiving dinner, and Todd wasn't in the photo. I wasn't surprised to not see him in the photo because. Because she said that it was. It's been tough. It's been a lot. It's been a long time coming. But she came in the comments and said, before anybody starts anything, he was here for Thanksgiving dinner, but he didn't stay for the photo. His daughter is like, the daughter that he had prior to. Candy is in the photo. Their children are in the photo or whatever. But people made it a thing. Now, I spoke to somebody who would know, who tells me that they're handling this the best way that they can. He was always invited to Thanksgiving dinner, was never not going to be invited. And people want to make it very salacious and, you know, whatever, because. Because they've been together for so long. But it's not that. I also saw a photo circulating of, like, there's, like, a baby. That was supposed to have happened. And that's why they. 100. Not true, from what I'm told. So, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When people explain themselves to social media, are they doing this because they really want to clear the air, or they're just doing this for their own engagement? Because I can't believe that people sit around and be like, I'm gonna tell everybody why he didn't come to Thanksgiving dinner.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, he came, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But she just explained herself and said.

[DJ Envy]

Why you gotta explain it to people like that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't know none of these people. Like, what is the point? I don't understand. I really don't understand that lie.

[Just Hilarious]

And I'm actually shocked that Kandy did that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I'm not, because Candy always, you know, she does her. What is it? Speak on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So is she doing it for her own engagement or because she really cares about what people think?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe it's a little bit of both. But I know in her speak on it, she always addresses what's going on with her, even on her Amazon Live. Like, she was like, I'll talk about this when I'm ready. But she gave us enough. Like, yeah, like, she's a person that kind of interacts with her people.

[Just Hilarious]

But just to see the picture that she had posted.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Thanksgiving. And then put in the caption for all y' all who won't think that he. You know, I just I wish I could.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, because you're doing it for engagement.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Because soon as I saw the picture, I was looking for Todd. I was like, all right, well, first Thanksgiving without him.

[DJ Envy]

But I do get why Todd, you know, reached out to you or whoever you reached out to. The sources. Oh, the sources. And said that he didn't cheat. He doesn't have a baby on the way. Because I would want to clear that one up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think everybody. Everybody's trying to figure out what happened. Yeah. And wrapping up. Everybody's trying to figure out what happened. We still don't know that I didn't get the answer to that question. But from what I'm still.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't want nobody to know nothing about your own life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can know what you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you want to know.

[DJ Envy]

We're gonna open up the phone lines next hour. 800-585-1051. We're gonna ask about, you know, when you're dating with somebody, is it okay to pop the question? Do we go together? Do we go together?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Note with the boxes to check. Yes, no, or maybe.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you know I didn't get a note too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You should.

[DJ Envy]

We'll talk about that in a little bit. But we got donkey today. Up next, what we talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Before? After the hour, I'm spinning the block, cuz I should have did this last week. But I need you all. Santana, to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him.

[DJ Envy]

You doing it now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I am.

[DJ Envy]

All right, I'm not mad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll talk about it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Been reading all. All Thanksgiving break.

[DJ Envy]

We'll get to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Next.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Say the gang. Dunk it. Other day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are a donkey.

[DJ Envy]

It's time for donkey of the day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the day does not discriminate.

[DJ Envy]

I might not have the song of the day, but I got the donkey today. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey man, get it with the hero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Who's donkey of the day today?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Ed Sheeran, Donkey of the day for Monday, December 1st goes to Jewel Santana. Now, I know in this fast moving media e. Ecosystem system, a story that's a week old, like this one can be considered ancient. Okay? But damn it, if you're still eating Thanksgiving leftovers today, then shut it up, all right? Your concept of old is off. But the reason I want to do this story is because we spoke about it last week during the latest, and I kept thinking to myself, why didn't I give Joel Santana donkey of the day for this. I was thinking about that over the holiday break, and it could be such a teachable moment. Okay, so let's spin the block. All right. Jules was on the no Funny podcast with Kenny, KP supreme, and DP Salute to those brothers. And Joel said that financial literacy holds more importance than reading. Let's go to the no Funny podcast to hear what you else had to say.

[DJ Envy]

We gotta start teaching our kids, though, just financial wealth and literacy and all that. That's early because by the time they get to ninth grade, they should be just learning how to start businesses. And kids can't read, but they don't really need to learn how to know how to read. I say that respectfully. I'm not saying that in a way to be literate because you. You're not supposed to be illiterate, but you can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's wrong? Reading or. Or math.

[DJ Envy]

Math. You can still obtain the information. You don't have to know how to read. I believe common sense is better than everything. I'm on common sense. I'd rather have zero book smarts and common sense. Be able to read the room. Be able to read life, Be able to read people. I try to understand people. Understand. I'm saying, like, nowadays, you can listen to a book. You don't have to listen to.

[Just Hilarious]

They got.

[DJ Envy]

They got apps you could put it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In and it'll read it to you.

[DJ Envy]

Are you crazy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Easy now. I admit I don't speak nigga like I used to, but I still speak it very fluently, okay? And I understand a lot of what Joel Santana is attempting to say, and I want to tell you why I don't agree. First of all, there shouldn't be an either or to this discussion, right? You should be able to read, and you should learn financial literacy. And, you know, if you're. If you're going to learn financial literacy, you need to know how to read. Read, okay? You need to know how to read to really become financially literate. If you rely on the apps and audiobooks, then you're always going to be dependent on someone else's translation. But if you know how to read, then you have direct access to the information yourself. Then you can read it, okay? And what you can't comprehend, what you don't understand, then you can ask questions. That is the beauty of reading. Okay? But you can't do any of that, all right? You can't comprehend or understand if you don't know how to read first. All right? Kids need to learn how to read full stop. All Right? Adults need to know how to read, full stop. Reading matters so much, man. First of all, reading scrimp is your brain, okay? When you're flipping pages, decoding sentences, visualizing ideas, it helps to build mental discipline. It builds your vocabulary, it builds your reasoning skills, even empathy, all right? Reading trains critical thinking, which is really a lost art nowadays, okay? Books expose you to complexity, okay? Not just in regards to understanding the complexity of financial literacy, but emotional intelligence, okay? Moral judgment, pattern recognition. If you don't understand anything I'm saying right now, then there's another example of why you should read more, okay? Financial literacy is vital. There's no argument there, but there are studies that show financial education efforts produce better outcomes when coupled with general literacy. Okay? Budgeting, investing, financial resilience, all improve when people have a broader literacy foundation. Also, guys, I don't know if y' all notice or not, but math and financial literacy are not the same thing. Okay? They overlap, but they're not the same thing. Math is like the toolbox, right? You got your numbers and your equations and, you know, your operations and your logic. You know, adding and subtracting, the multiplying, dividing. Math is about how numbers work, but financial literacy is about how money works, okay? It's about how people use money in the real world. So, yes, you need math to understand financial literacy, especially in regards to percentages and interest rates and basic calculations, calculation. So I understand what y' all was trying to say in that conversation, but I need y' all to understand how stupid y' all look to a lot of people, okay? Nothing worse than watching a group of black men be happy about not knowing nothing. Okay? All right? There's nothing worse than watching a group of black men be happy about not being able to read. All right, Juels, you from Harlem, okay? You know. You know who else was from Harlem? Malcolm X was from Harlem. And Malcolm X used reading to realize his full potential. I would say reading is the superpower power that turned Malcolm Little into Malcolm X. Okay? Malcolm X once told Alex Haley, I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life as I see it today. The ability to read awoke inside me something long dormant, craving to be mentally alive. That was Malcolm X. You know what my daddy used to say? He used to say, if you want to hide something from a nigga, put it in a pun book. All right? All right. That right there should make us intellectually curious enough to want to know what the hell they hiding from us. All right? Pick up a damn book, kids. All right? Everything that Juels was saying you should learn can be learned by reading books. Teach history and culture and, you know, most importantly, something that's missing from the world. They teach you context, all right? The world is out of context because people don't even understand. They don't even understand what context is nowadays. And you can do audio books, okay? You can do audiobooks. I recommend you do both, all right? But I'm telling you, if you want to work out your brain, if you want to, you know, do some exercise on your brain, read, okay? And it's more important now than ever that we read, because according to the National Literacy Institute, not only are 21 of American adults illiterate, but also 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children. You can't even give your kids Cat in the Hat, okay? You don't know how to read to your kids, man. That's something money can't buy, okay? Reading to your kids before bedtime, you can't put a dollar amount on that, but the way this world is going, you're gonna have kids in first grade reading the daddy before he goes to bed, if the father's even in the house, okay? Listen, I'm all for teaching our people how to handle money, okay? I'm all for teaching our people how to invest and build business businesses. But to think that reading is secondary is like saying the foundation don't matter as long as you got nice windows, okay? I promise you, one of the fastest ways to level up is reading, okay? That's how you learn. That'll teach you how to question things. That'll teach you how to think. That's what literacy teaches you how to do. Read, learn, question, think. So, kids, okay? Invest in your mind, all right? Invest in your mind, just like you want to invest in your pockets. Not because you're trying to get rich, but so you can stay sharp and not sound illiterate on somebody's podcast. Please give Joel Santana the biggest he.

[DJ Envy]

Huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Just wanted to put that on record. Okay? That would be out. Yes. What?

[DJ Envy]

It's sad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is.

[DJ Envy]

It's sad. But you just decided. But you know where the frustration comes from, right? It comes from him being in the industry early, making all this money, and then losing a lot of it and being damn near broke and saying, I wish I knew. Generational wealth and financial literacy to figure out what to do with that money. Because him, he's probably in a situation where it's like, I wish I knew what to do with the money more than anything else. Yeah, but it's also with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You still know how to read.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it's also with the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you arrive rapper. The more you read, the better you get as a mc. Yeah. Like you in the world economy.

[DJ Envy]

But that comes from, I'm sure, personal. The fact that he had a whole lot and had all this money and money coming in and he didn't know what to do with the finance, what to do with the money, how to invest, and he lost it all. So that's what that frustration comes from him saying, I wish I went to class and did you know financial literacy opposed to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the moral of the story. But it's not an either or.

[DJ Envy]

No, it's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's all encompassing. It's all part of education. It's all part of an education that you should try to acquire fire on this planet while you're here. All of it.

[Contessa Gales]

I agree.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Shalomite. Now can we bring Lauren back in? Can we have a real conversation? 800-585-1051 it's the Jewels instrumental y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Just Hilarious]

Y' all crazy.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051 now, over the weekend, she went out of the country for her birthday. And during this, I guess, vacation, her babe put on. I guess it was like a note on the window that said, will you go out with me? So the question is so cute. 800-585-1051. Is it necessary to ask the question, will you go out with me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, do you have to.

[DJ Envy]

Ask whether I'll go out with you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As an unc, I was embarrassed. And the reason I was embarrassed for Lorna, for him because you already out the country. So you already went out the country with the guy. So clearly y' all have established something, right? So you post a picture in your close friends and on the window, though, it says, will you be my girlfriend? I thought it was a proposal.

[DJ Envy]

When I seen all the roses and.

[Just Hilarious]

Everything, I said, he wanted something.

[DJ Envy]

I said, who's gonna walk Lauren down the aisle?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I thought you was getting proposed to. But see, I know how to read. So when I read it, when I read it, I was like, will you be my girlfriend?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. I thought it was really, really cute. Why do you hate it so bad?

[Just Hilarious]

It was cute. And then that only sets him up for the proposal. What the hell we going to do for that if he had to take.

[DJ Envy]

But shouldn't y' all know, though, like 16 anymore?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like when I so at that point.

[DJ Envy]

Have to ask you, do we go out or do y' all just was like, see action?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's EJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're taking your calls. 800-585-1051. Now, over the weekend, our very own Lauren was on a vacation for her birthday. And, you know, she posted everything. So cool. It was so nice. Everything was so dope. Then all of a sudden, we see this room with roses and flowers. And then on the window, it says, will you go out with me?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Will you be my girlfriend?

[DJ Envy]

Will you be my girl? So we're asking 800-585-1051.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think it's crazy that y' all think it's know.

[DJ Envy]

Did you have to ask whether you go out with somebody? Is it necessary to ask the question when you go out with me? That is what it is. I guess that's the question.

[Just Hilarious]

I think it's cute. I think. And yes, to answer your question, before we went to break, yeah, Chris did ask me to be his girlfriend. How do you ask you? He just straight asked me over dinner. He ain't take me out. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Whatever.

[Just Hilarious]

He didn't take me to Massey.

[DJ Envy]

After he said dinner, y' all were just together.

[Just Hilarious]

No, we did not. Shut up. No, but I thought it was very, very cute. I think he just wanted to court her, like, the right way. I mean, because I guess it's been unspoken. Y' all were dating for a while.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's been a thing. But I did. I did make a big deal because I'm like, it's a thing. But I felt like the last time I was in a relationship, that relationship started. I was like, 19, 20. So I've been asking, even here, I'm like, how do you have that conversation as an adult? Like, what is it? Like, I didn't remember what it was like formally. So when we just, like, we linked and then we never, like, we've been together since, so it kind of, like, just turned into a thing. And I was like, let's have the conversation. So we had the conversation. Then I was like, I feel like that was supposed to be cuter. Like, it was supposed to be a thing. And he was like, that makes no sense. Like, if we together and we doing this and we've made it exclusive and we whatever, why does all that matter? And then when I walk, it was kind of funny because when I walked in, I was like, you get on my nerves because I made it such a thing. And he's like, if we've talked about it, why is it a thing? And I'm like, I want all the bells and whistles.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so we delivered.

[Just Hilarious]

And that's what the trip to the Bahamas and the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So why is this stupid?

[Just Hilarious]

And the relationship proposal came then.

[Contessa Gales]

My man.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, now, as. As a very judgmental un, I try to mind my business. Okay. And talk behind your back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And you thought I put you in my close friends. I would never.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But since you bring me to the radio, let's discuss.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying you've been telling us that you had a man for a while. Yes. I personally know you was too low. Okay, but you've been like, no, stop saying that. I got one boyfriend. That's what you been saying. Stop saying I got one boyfriend. I got one boyfriend. I got one boyfriend. My man, my man. My man, my man. But to me, if that was your man and y' all go out the country and he finally asked you to be his girlfriend, I'm like, oh, so you was the only person acknowledging that you was in a relationship up until that point. That's why I'm taking it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, you taking it that way because you like a plot twist. We all know how the girls get down. We know. We know how the girls get out. It's been a thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do we talk about in life? We talk about how things.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Commercial Announcer]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[DJ Envy]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no band likes each other after.

[DJ Envy]

20 years or 25 years. Like the Beatles broke up in seven.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And a half years and we're going on 35. Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcast. Have to be in context. All I saw was a video, a picture and the picture said on the glass will you be my But I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Said what you hear every Day. And I tell you, that's my boyfriend. I tell you what's going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We know this. Lululemon.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We know this. But so when I see you think.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm a delusional girl, I'm just going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Off what I saw Envy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You think I'm a delusional girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you saw it, what you think.

[DJ Envy]

I thought it was funny. I laughed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did you think, though? You didn't think, like, damn, he just asking her to see. But.

[DJ Envy]

But this. But now when you was crazy. But when I first laugh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But we laugh too, because it's like.

[DJ Envy]

I. I was like, damn, they just asked me. They just getting to this now in the country, when you break it down, it's cute. It's the fact you had the conversation. It was something that was bubbling in the relationship. And he was like, I'm just gonna ask her officially because Lauren does the most.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I didn't know the backstory, and that was certified.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, you didn't ask either.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But this. What you don't understand, understand you're posting this to the world.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't care.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The whole world is like, damn, they out the country. And he just asked her to be.

[DJ Envy]

No, but you know what people talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About she got a man.

[Just Hilarious]

You know what I'm saying?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, people were asking me. Everybody was like, so did you say yes? You didn't. You left us with a cliffhanger. And I was like, I didn't do that.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody asking, why would you on that stripper poll? That's what the chat is asking. But let's go to the poll.

[Just Hilarious]

She was on a stripper pole.

[Commercial Announcer]

You see the stripp?

[DJ Envy]

Nice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that was a video just missed. She got all the other videos. She missed that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I bet you as soon as you saw her on that script poll, he was like, God damn it. I. I spoke too soon. I shouldn't ask my girlfriend. Okay. Hello. Who's this? Eddie, this Christian from Miami, Broward county, to be more specific.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Foolish man? I had like three girlfriends.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like it's some high school.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stuff to ask her, especially if you're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taking her out of town. Not the town, but the country. That's that.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

That's my point.

[Contessa Gales]

And.

[DJ Envy]

And on top of that, I feel like females, they really just like it more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So just for the post, more than.

[DJ Envy]

Anything, they want to make that IG posting, you know, want to feel special, you know, go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's just my opinion. I got three girlfriends I never asked one to be my girlfriend. You know, by the way, if you posting that on the gram, you are childish and you need to grow. Don't nobody care about your little go together and big 30s plus years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If I wanted to do it for the gram, there was so much more I could have posted between us. If you get proposals.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. You know what I'm saying? If you get proposals.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. My proposal will be a thing. It'll be a whole unveiling. It'll be exclusive, somewhere potentially like Essence Vogue. Whatever. We'll figure it out. But I. It was cute and I wanted to share it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just think it's crazy to go out the country with somebody that's already been sweating on you and have them ask you just to be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That has been my man. What's wrong with me?

[DJ Envy]

I think it's wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get it now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's wrong with that? Simple actually was with me when we first started having a conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz first of all, stop taking advice from single women.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She actually told me I was doing a bit too much. Like sim was like, look, this man has already been dedicated to you, y'. All. Y' all talked about what y' all need to talk about. You're being the bells and whistles. Why does that like. And I was like, I just think it's. You didn't have that.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't have that young love. So you want, you want that love now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait, I do have young love.

[Just Hilarious]

No, no, you said you was in. You have been in a relationship since she was 19.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but I was young, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you mean?

[Richie Reseda]

And then.

[Just Hilarious]

So now you're an adult.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, you mean like a real thing.

[Just Hilarious]

Relationship as an adult?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

And you want it to be formally asked?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can you formally ask me everything? I also wanted just even when we had the conversation, I was like, I just want to know blur lines. Cuz I was a little bit like, are we, are we not like, what's happening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you didn't know? This whole year. This whole year, this whole year.

[Mimi Brown]

That is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How long ago was it when I told y I needed to have a conversation? Cuz I was confused. That was a long time ago before that trip. It was a long time before the trip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And just until this vacation, you finally got clarity. You out here letting them swear on now.

[DJ Envy]

That sounds crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz you been claiming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This into.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're making this thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all are making this a thing. That confusion was like seven months ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you've been confused for seven Months?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, stupid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When did you get clarity?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've been at clarity. This was just a little cherry on.

[Just Hilarious]

I just did this when for the girl grand.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I should never posted it.

[DJ Envy]

585-1051.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Happy.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne. The guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, Lauren LaRosa was on her little vacation and she posted a video. And in the hotel room there was roses and flowers and then written on the the window said, will you be my girlfriend?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Will you be my girlfriend? Girlfriend. She already out the country been claiming this man for a whole year.

[DJ Envy]

But now she said she knows and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The guy just made it official.

[Just Hilarious]

At least now it's official.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it been official. It's just for the grand.

[DJ Envy]

So what's the difference now? Like, is it a. Is it a phone up relationship? But like, you can say, hey, babe, here's my phone. And you can say, I'm taking your phone. Internet.

[Contessa Gales]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, the Internet password.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'm not gonna call you two no more because now I understand why you were still hanging on the two guys.

[Just Hilarious]

Very good.

[DJ Envy]

Wait for the question.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

You just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's basically what you telling us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It had nothing to do with the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It had to have a backup plan. And I remember you saying something like that a long time ago. You was like, whoever steps up. I remember you saying something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I said, who? Yeah, I mean, he wasn't even.

[DJ Envy]

No, you tell on yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Took me to court.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus, that's wild.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was in February.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Finally admitted.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Early February. And I was joking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it was around Valentine's Day. Yes, it was. I remember you said, whoever step up. I remember you said that you had your own episode of Love island going on. Low Island. Good.

[DJ Envy]

Then you came on yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my gosh. Hey, y'. All, this is Tiffany.

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, Tiffany.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, y'.

[Commercial Announcer]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So first of all, Charlamagne and Envy, y' all haters, thank you. Thank you. What's wrong with Lori? Because it's nothing wrong with her boyfriend asking her in the cutest way to be his girlfriend. And in this climate of dating, we actually need to establish if we're gonna be together, if we're boyfriend or girlfriend. Girlfriend. Because if not, it leaves room for air. Because if they just acting like they together and they not, that's when people start, you know, acting funny, like having other people on the side. And then it's like, I mean, we didn't say that we were together. So what's wrong with him establishing that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They'Re together, I'm gonna let you know. Unc is a hater. I'm a big hater. Okay? You know what I'm saying? Because I want to make sure that my people are being represented properly at all times. She been out here claiming this man for a whole damn near year, and he just getting around. Around. They're asking her to be his girlfriend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, they could have did it in private, and y' all just didn't know. And that's exactly what I just told her. That is, I said we had a conversation a long time ago. The confusion was a long time ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was clear you were confused. You just told us that you were the one that was confused. And you just told us that you was waiting on one of these men to properly step up ever since.

[DJ Envy]

That's what dating is called, that monkey bar. You hold on to one and wait for the other one, and then you're good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all ain't never been sick. What do you want?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look at that monkey just swinging from one monkey to the next.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Me or him?

[DJ Envy]

No, you're holding on to the ball. It's at it anyway.

[Just Hilarious]

Don't even go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You supposed to date and. And figure things out and then lock in with what makes the most sense and what it's like, you know what? Where your passion and your love is.

[Contessa Gales]

Is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, don't d me up about nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on. Come on. That's what I'm talking about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it's never been two or nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just admitted to it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This was before him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Could you stop? Could you stop?

[DJ Envy]

I'm going to treat you more. So what's the moral of your story?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The moral of the story is there's nothing wrong with clarity, period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

At all. I want to be clear about everything in my life in this season.

[DJ Envy]

Even if it's eight months in. I get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't care if you got it eight months in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't care if you got asked me or tell me three, four, five thousand times. If you want to tell me and show your love for me, keep doing it. I love that. Love to see it. Love to be a part of it. I had a great birthday day, and I got great gifts, and I'm going to Ghana for New Year's Eve with my man. It was my birthday gift for New Year's Eve for daddy December.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, so maybe he'll propose.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, don't put that pressure on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's too early for that. If you propose, I would say yes.

[Just Hilarious]

But you would say yes?

[Lauren LaRosa]

100%. But I want. He knows I want my proposal. I want my grandmother and everybody to be there. My grandma may flying to Ghana.

[Just Hilarious]

So that happened. Nice.

[Mimi Brown]

The.

[DJ Envy]

The family see, twice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If I would have said do it twice, you'd be like, what? He got up twice?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I say something respectfully?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would you want to propose to somebody in Delaware? Like, if you like, like, seriously, you know what I'm saying? Why are you putting that on?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It could be in New York. You can get in a car and go anywhere. My grandmother's not getting on a plane or both.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, but you. God damn.

[DJ Envy]

But that's what I said.

[Just Hilarious]

That is a little crazy to get down on your knee and in the middle of Delaware.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Baltimore, he can't even get down. He got to really stay down. If he get down.

[Just Hilarious]

I appreciate the. The jokes about Baltimore, but we. We have a bigger sit. You can sit Delaware inside of the hood and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But we got good stuff. We got a waterfront stuff too. Y got a waterfront. Y got ball harbor. We got waterfront.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

We got other things more than.

[DJ Envy]

What's the thing that they. We used to book when you were a kid, like the veterans in like the end. The little end thing where you could rent them out. You could do that and it'd be dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay. I a know you had a waterfront.

[DJ Envy]

So they got waterfront.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And that's a nice restaurant.

[Just Hilarious]

Beaches.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We do. There's actually a gay beach. I bet you, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. Stop being homophobic.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm just being inclusive while you know the beaches. That is not homophobic. I, you know, I support you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we got the latest with Lauren coming up. What we talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We do got the latest, so we are going to go back 50 cents. So he is telling all about his new documentary. He sat down with Good Morning America and Robin Rock Roberts and we gonna get into it.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's get to it now.

[Just Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, so 50 Cent and Alexandria, who is working with him on this documentary, sat down with Robin Roberts and Good Morning America to about Sean Combs the Reckoning, which is A new documentary that he is bringing to Netflix about Diddy and everything that has been happening over this last, like, year or so. And it airs tonight at midnight. So December 2nd. It's live on Netflix. It's a four part series. Now. They talk about a lot of things. So first you get to see some of the footage that 50 Cent was able to obtain that was never before seen. And it's. These are the days leading up until when Diddy was arrested. Let's take a listen to days leading up to arrest.

[DJ Envy]

Never before seen footage of Sean Diddy.

[Just Hilarious]

Combs in the days leading up to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

His arrest in New York last September. You want to put stuff in my fanny packing?

[DJ Envy]

The exclusive video obtained by Netflix shows Combs debating with his lawyers about strategy.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Listen to me.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna get off the phone right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now and I am going to let.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

You professionals look at the situation and.

[DJ Envy]

Come back me with a solution, no matter what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No matter what. Nobody said let's.

[DJ Envy]

Let's just here and there.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Y' all are not working together the right way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're losing. Was there anything that surprised you when you were watching? It was surprising that he actually filmed it. It was very interesting to watch a.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man who's known for his brand presence, you know, he's.

[Just Hilarious]

He has a really amazing knack for. For marketing and all of that and how he was sort of taking that into account and how he was coming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Off to the public.

[Just Hilarious]

Public, Jeez.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So that's all we get to see now. But in the actual documentary, you get to go more into those days with him. Now here is the crazy part about all this.

[Just Hilarious]

So it's all crazy because if he was. If he filmed that, how the hell we hear it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Diddy had a video person, a photographer that was always with him, right. These couple days, that video person sent someone and didn't come on his own. Diddy has a legal agreement. From what I'm being told by his team, he had a legal agreement with that videographer photographer. They are not for sure if it covers this person that would have sold or whatever. However 50 Cent obtained this footage, there was also a disagreement between Diddy and this person who shot this footage. This guy was never paid, and they didn't find that out. His attorneys, until this documentary dropped. So all of that stuff edited, unedited, that was shot in that time, they are. It's. I mean, if they bought it and they own it the right way, and Diddy's team is still checking that out, it's there to be used so we are about to see some things that I'm sure if he was in control of, we might not have seen. Now they also get into the fact that people are saying 50 Cent is just trying to take Diddy or add on to what Diddy is going through because it's personal. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you respond to people who say that that is more about the disdain that you have for Sean Combs than it is for giving the victims a platform.

[DJ Envy]

What they consider a pre existing beef.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Right between it's me being uncomfortable with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Him suggesting that he takes me shopping, or I looked at it like he was like. It was like a tester, like maybe.

[DJ Envy]

You'Ll come play with me type of thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's not personal.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think it's important to also let people know that the show is not completely the perspectives of people that did not like Sean.

[Contessa Gales]

We weren't trying to just get the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Highlights, the salacious details.

[Just Hilarious]

You know that the real goal was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To storytell and if you.

[Contessa Gales]

Not everyone needed to have an allegation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To be a part of this project.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was that the whole context of what 50 said? You added something. I need to hear the whole content.

[DJ Envy]

That'd be crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's it. But y' all know 50 Cent is also, you know, he's being a little humorous at the same time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't know that. For all we know, Diddy really made him feel uncomfortable when Diddy said he wanted to take him shopping. And by the way, yeah, he had been talking about that for years. Diddy was up here and Diddy was like, he want to take 50 shopping, man.

[DJ Envy]

50 stupid to it. That's one of the people you don't play with. If you got problems with him, you got problems with him for life. Now question, who else is on the documentary?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So listen, they have jurors that are part of it. Aubrey o', Day, who was a former member of Danity Kane and making the band. Kirk Burrows, who was co founder of Bad Boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The guy who rubbed the semen on his nipples.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know that men's that escort's name.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God. It wasn't a Punisher. That wasn't a punisher.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it was a different one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the finisher.

[Lauren LaRosa]

D1. Eric Sermon. Roxanne Johnson, rapper and former member EPMD. Roxanne Johnson, who's ex wife of Bad Boy artist Craig Mack. Mark Curry, who's a former Bad Boy artist. Kalina Harper, which I think is also insane because you. You guys know she's a former member of Dirty Money. And this. This is the. So it was her and it was Dawn. Remember people were alleging that Diddy, like, might have paid her off or something? Yeah, allegedly. Because he was. There was contact between him and her, and she was saying that what dawn was saying wasn't true. Brooklyn Baps, who was on Making the Band, Clayton Howard, Capricorn Clark. I'm like, how. Capricorn Clark, who's a former assistant and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Creative director of Bad Boy, she has some good testimony. That was the one that was in the call with. They allegedly blew his car. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I'm like, yo, how. How? Like, yeah, she. How did he get her in this? I don't know. Yeah, there's about to be in the jurors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Why? Why do you think she wouldn't do a duck? She testified. Yeah. Against him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I. I don't know, but the jurors, I think.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I think she wants to write a book. Like, why wouldn't she do a duck?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just thought maybe she. No, I don't know.

[Just Hilarious]

Listen, she's going through her own experience over here, girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, I cannot believe the jurors, too. Even, like, the people, like, they talk.

[DJ Envy]

To the jurors as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They talk to. It just says jurors with an S. I don't know, like, whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we get to watch tomorrow come. Not tonight.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tonight at midnight. Midnight, yeah. Now, let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

I'm staying up for this one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm gonna stay up for it, too.

[DJ Envy]

I'm saying I'm watching.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So a lot of people have been talking about, you know, whether this turns another bad light onto hip hop and hip hop being attacked and, like, why 50 Cent wants to be the person that adds into this. Let's take a less than 50 talk about that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

2000 think that hip hop culture was.

[Just Hilarious]

On trial as much as Sean Combs was not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look, if I didn't say anything, you would have interpreted as, hip hop is fine with his behaviors.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

There's no one else being vocal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you would look at it and just say, because, mind your business, or, let me not say nothing about nothing or those things.

[DJ Envy]

It would allow the entire culture to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Register as if they're for that behavior. If Sean Combs watch, what do you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Think he's going to feel like?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow, this is amazing. I think he's going to say, this is the best documentary I've seen in a long time. Because you'll see people saying that he.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Might feel a different way about pieces.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And bits of it.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

But he knows the truth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he'll see the truth in it. Yo, this has nothing to do with hip hop. And I hate when they do that. Like when Harvey Weinstein is on trial, nobody says, well, is this Hollywood on trial? And when Abercrombie and Fitch guy is on trial, nobody says, it's the clothing industry on trial. Like, no, this has nothing to do with hip hop. This was one man's choices. That's it. This is about Diddy and nothing else. Ain't got nothing to do with no damn hip hop. But I hate when they do that.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sure you're gonna see a bunch of lawsuits, because if that guy worked for Diddy and he sold that footage to somebody else, he had to be under contract, right? Well, it had to be stipulation, because there's no way Diddy's gonna have people around him that he does not own that footage. I can't see, like. Like, I can't see that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was the first question I asked.

[Just Hilarious]

You make a mistake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big, big.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean? Like, yeah. And then how the hell you gonna let him just leave with the footage?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that footage.

[DJ Envy]

Come with me. That SD card. Come with me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I don't have any confirmations of any legal action as of yet, but the statement that I received from Diddy's team says that we have confirmed that Netflix used footage that was never authorized for release, including Private Moments. The footage was created for an entirely different purpose under an agreement that was never completed. So for background information, what I was told was that Diddy's team says that there was supposed to be have been a conversation between Netflix and Diddy and he was recording footage Diddy to do his own document documentary. But once he was told he was not going to have full creative control, he backed out of the situation with Netflix. And they believe that this is some of the footage that was being used for that. But from what I was told, there's a contract with the original photographer videographer, but they don't know if it covers this guy yet. So they're still trying to sort that out to see if there's any legal steps that they can take.

[DJ Envy]

And then I wonder who, if legal steps are taken, do they go after the videographer because he's the one that allegedly sold it.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

So they would have to go after him because they made the deal with.

[Contessa Gales]

With him.

[DJ Envy]

Correct? Maybe, Maybe not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The do already coming out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Even if it's pull down, you going to watch it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody going to watch it tomorrow they going to record it. And plus, it's Netflix, right? Netflix ain't even going to put that out unless they've already crossed all eight. Huh?

[DJ Envy]

Cross their T's and dot the eyes. You said dotted the T's. I said cross the T. No T's.

[Just Hilarious]

And crossing no eyes.

[DJ Envy]

Cross the Te's and D. D. Who.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The hell cross that? You always trying to throw shot that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How I get in this.

[DJ Envy]

What? How I get in this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just sick of this.

[DJ Envy]

No legal action can happen from it though, right? That's it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, they. I don't know because they don't know yet. What. What were the terms and not the terms or all that, but they did tell me that their. Their legal. Their legal team is formally notifying Netflix of the fact that they feel like that this was unauthorized for used to like, you know, all the things that they just said.

[DJ Envy]

Like Charlotte says, too late putting this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Out unless they have.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But y' all know he got this appeal coming up, so I don't know character wise how this might help because a judge and anybody like.

[DJ Envy]

And that was my point.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I asked that. And they said, listen, not legally, but judges are human and maybe they get some emotional spirit out of this and render a decision based on some of that, which.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Diddy just need to go peel some potatoes. Okay. He done killed how many times times. Like it's like do. Just do the time.

[DJ Envy]

Like, it's like he works at the chapel, sir. He does books, not food.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh. Or whatever. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying go do the time. Like this is it is what it is. You got three years, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Now when we come back, we got to make sister Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious Charlamagne guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let me salute all my pops. Today's my pop's birthday.

[Just Hilarious]

Happy birthday.

[DJ Envy]

Happy birthday, pops.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big OG to me. Dominican.

[DJ Envy]

He's not Dominican. He's nowhere near Dominican, but Dominican.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just went there. Dominica.

[DJ Envy]

It's totally two different things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dominic, I'm not arguing with you about you police. Navi died.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna give you a number, let him say, give you some of them 90s words that you forgot about. That's what call you. And also salute to American Dream. I brought my daughter there this weekend for her birthday. You know, American Dream is not just a mall in Jersey. They got everything. Amusement rides, games, Legoland.

[Just Hilarious]

Happy related birthday we had a.

[DJ Envy]

We had a great time. So salute to everybody that. That I seen at the American Dream. My daughter's having a good time. She's home today, though, but whole family sick. I think I gave him everything.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, damn.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody say everybody had a sore throat.

[Just Hilarious]

That's your ass started that.

[DJ Envy]

Yep. So if I get it again, I can give it to y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, I won't be here if I got it. You got it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but they got sick now.

[DJ Envy]

You out in Connecticut this weekend?

[Contessa Gales]

Yes, I am.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm in Hartford at the Funny Bone Comedy Club. We got two shows this Friday and two shows this Saturday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So are we on in Hartford, Connecticut?

[Commercial Announcer]

Do y' all know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no, we own somewhere else.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, if y' all hear my voice, y' all get y' all tickets.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Justin.

[Just Hilarious]

Larry's official dot com. I will be doing meet and greet at the late show on Friday and a late show on Saturday in Baltimore city. Be prepared. December 13th, we got two shows, two free shows at the Nevermore hall, which already sold out. Sold out in like seven minutes. But it's free. So I expected that. Your admission is a toy, a brand new toy. Do not bring no old ass toys up in there for no. No kids.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Just Hilarious]

I need y' all to bring brand new toys. Everybody gotta have a toy. Also, if you.

[James JJ88 Jacobs]

If.

[Just Hilarious]

Because the tickets was free. And if it's a group of y' all that come as four, I need four toys. Don't try to, don't. Don't think one toy gonna get a group in. All right, so I see you, Baltimore, December 13th at the Nevermore hall for two free shows.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go.

[DJ Envy]

All right. And yeah, we're on in Hartford because they can hear us. And also New Haven, Connecticut.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, got you.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, good.

[DJ Envy]

Gentlemen, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, the positive note is simply this. It is December 1st, so we are officially in the Christmas season, man. And I want y' all to know that Christmas isn't a season, it's a feeling. And the best way to spread holiday cheer is to be the joy you wish to see in the world. So let's remember, remember that all Christmas season long. Okay? Have a great day. Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

What up, y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All?

[DJ Envy]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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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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[Charlamagne Tha God]

And linza raspberry. A holiday classic. These are Fancy Santa.

[DJ Envy]

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[James JJ88 Jacobs]

Fancy Santa. Designer cologne. Spritz Me vintage timepiece.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

Now that's fancy. Pepperidge Farm cookies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fancy a taste?

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