FULL SHOW: Remy Ma & Papoose Address Divorce Rumors After Claressa Shields’ Breakfast Club Comments, Kid Cudi Testifies on Diddy Altercation, Meek Mill Calls Out The Breakfast Club + David Hogg & Lynae Vanee Interview

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – May 23, 2025 Episode

Title: FULL SHOW: Remy Ma & Papoose Address Divorce Rumors After Claressa Shields’ Breakfast Club Comments, Kid Cudi Testifies on Diddy Altercation, Meek Mill Calls Out The Breakfast Club + David Hogg & Lynae Vanee Interview

Host: The Breakfast Club (DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God)

Release Date: May 23, 2025

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1. Introduction and Mental Health Awareness

The episode kicks off by acknowledging May as Mental Health Awareness Month. DJ Envy highlights the importance of healing and introduces listeners to various mental health-focused podcasts within the Black Effect Podcast Network.

Notable Quote:

• Charlamagne Tha God [00:19]: "I never let that little girl inside of me die."

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2. Front Page News

Sports Updates:

• The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves with a score of 118-103, leading their series.

Notable Quote:

• DJ Envy [06:36]: "Ant man, Julius Randall. What y' all gonna do? Y' all gonna make this a series or we just gonna have to sleep through the Western Conference finals?"

Political News:

• President Trump's Drug Price Initiative:

  • Trump emphasizes lowering drug costs as a significant achievement of his administration.

  Notable Quote:

  • Trump [07:43]: "I never let that little girl inside of me die... 89% cut. Nobody's ever seen anything like it."

• Harvard University Sanctions:

  • Homeland Security revokes Harvard’s eligibility to enroll foreign students due to non-compliance with reporting requirements.

  Notable Quote:

  • DJ Envy [10:29]: "Is that legal? I mean, I hear these things and I don't know if they're legal or not."

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3. Listener Engagement and Call-Ins

Throughout the episode, listeners call in to share their opinions and experiences. Topics range from personal grievances with public figures to support for local businesses.

Notable Interaction:

• Wesley from Atlanta [11:23]: Discusses concerns about the Trump administration's actions and the importance of peaceful protesting.

  Quote:

  • Wesley [11:24]: "He is doing exactly what the plan is. You know what I'm saying? He's getting things in order when it comes to finances and for the country."

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4. Divorce Rumors: Remy Ma & Papoose vs. Claressa Shields

A significant portion of the episode delves into addressing divorce rumors between rappers Remy Ma and Papoose. The rumors were sparked after Claressa Shields made comments on The Breakfast Club, leading to tension between the couple.

Key Points:

• Remy Ma expresses frustration over public speculation regarding their divorce.
• Papoose counters Remy's allegations, emphasizing that infidelity isn't the reason for their separation.

Notable Quotes:

• Remy Ma [20:43]: "I don't have to argue about anybody about where my spot is with him."
• Papoose [21:35]: "You have to go to court, man. Absolutely."

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5. Kid Cudi Testifies on Diddy Altercation

The episode covers Kid Cudi’s testimony in a court case involving an altercation with Sean "Diddy" Combs. The conflict centers around jealousy and alleged threats made by Diddy after Remy Ma addressed their marital issues publicly.

Key Points:

• Kid Cudi describes Sean Combs' aggressive behavior during the incident.
• Discussions focus on the repercussions of public relationships and celebrity disputes.

Notable Quotes:

• Kid Cudi [47:44]: "I feel like I and my classmates could have done something before this because of what we knew from that education."
• DJ Envy [27:36]: "If I listen to it, I'll tell you exactly what I wrote."

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6. Interview with David Hogg & Lynae Vanee

Guest: David Hogg, American gun control activist, survivor of the 2018 Parkland shooting, and co-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Key Topics Discussed:

• Challenging the Democratic Leadership:

  • Hogg emphasizes the need for fresh, authentic voices within the Democratic Party to better represent younger generations and address ongoing issues like gun violence.

  Notable Quote:

  • David Hogg [42:10]: "If we have the right people elected that are out there, they're gonna be able."

• Impact of the Parkland Shooting:

  • Hogg shares his transformation from wanting to be a journalist to becoming an activist after the Parkland tragedy.

  Notable Quote:

  • David Hogg [43:13]: "We didn't say, go out and vote for Democrats or Republicans necessarily. We said, go out and vote for more religious leaders that represent you and your values."

• Electoral Successes and Future Goals:

  • Discusses the election of young leaders like Congressman Maxwell Frost and their role in reducing gun violence through legislative efforts.

  Notable Quote:

  • David Hogg [54:52]: "Look at the person who we elected, Dante Pittman in North Carolina, who helped to break the Republican super majority out there."

• Challenges Within the Democratic Party:

  • Hogg addresses internal threats and the need for unity to enact meaningful change, advocating for a shift away from complacent leadership.

  Notable Quote:

  • David Hogg [56:18]: "If you stuck with that politics of cowardice, we never would have passed the Affordable Care Act."

Conclusion of Interview:

• Hogg encourages listeners to support emerging democratic leaders who prioritize substantive policy changes over political maneuvering.

  Notable Quote:

  • David Hogg [56:18]: "It's about our generation and the story of are we going to continue having conversations like this in the future where school shootings remain in the headlines and gun violence remains in the headlines..."

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7. Wrap-Up and Final Remarks

The hosts conclude the episode by promoting upcoming events, such as Don Staley’s book signing and the upcoming shows by Jess Hilarious. They also extend gratitude to veterans in honor of Memorial Day weekend.

Notable Statements:

• DJ Envy [120:53]: "Salute to all our veterans out there. Veterans absolutely deserve our gratitude."

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Conclusion

This episode of The Breakfast Club balances heavy topics like political activism, gun control, and personal relationship drama with lighter segments such as sports updates and listener call-ins. The highlight remains the insightful interview with David Hogg, shedding light on the evolution of youth activism within the Democratic Party and the ongoing fight against gun violence in America.

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Note: Timestamps are approximate and based on the transcript provided.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

You're listening to an I heart podcast and it's going to take us to heal us. It's Mental Health Awareness Month and on a recent episode of just heal with Dr. J, the incomparable Taraji P. Henson stopped by to discuss how she's discovered peace on her journey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never let that little girl inside of me die.

[DJ Envy]

To hear this and more things on the journey of healing, you can listen to just heal with Dr. J from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts at.

[Jess Hilarious]

And T connecting changes everything.

[Morgan]

Being able to say, I feel like crying, so I will cry today. I'm a little depressed.

[DJ Envy]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and.

[Jess Hilarious]

Deeply well is a sanctuary for your healing. I'm Debi Brown, healer, wellbeing expert, teacher.

[DJ Envy]

And fellow seeker, and each week we explore what it means to become whole through soul expanding conversations and practices.

[Jess Hilarious]

Today, wow.

[Morgan]

I feel really powerful and ready to.

[DJ Envy]

Serve and use my skills. And it's like that's the heart of what it is to be an authentic woman. To hear this and more ways to prioritize your peace. Listen to Deeply well from the Black.

[Jess Hilarious]

Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts at. And T connecting changes everything. I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that we rarely ask ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month, and on psychology of your 20s, we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk about. Prepare for our conversations to go deep.

[Morgan]

I spent the majority of my teenage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Years and my twenties just feeling absolutely terrified.

[DJ Envy]

So this mental health Awareness Month.

[Jess Hilarious]

Open the free iHeartRadio app. Search the psychology of your twenties and listen now.

[DJ Envy]

Hi, I'm Radhi Devlukia and I am the host of a really good cry podcast and I had the opportunity to talk to Davey Brown with women, any kind of thing, where there might be this underlying edge of self sacrifice as martyrdom. If you're never filling, you're telling yourself a story and you're actually avoiding what.

[Jess Hilarious]

You should be doing, you got to get in. You got to get your hands dirty.

[Morgan]

Listen to a really good cry on.

[DJ Envy]

The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lenae Beni]

Good morning usa.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Lenae Beni]

Jess Hilar.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, Charlamagne.

[DJ Envy]

Tha God Peace to the planet. It's Friday. Good morning. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[Lenae Beni]

That's right, it's Friday. It's a three day weekend. We off Monday for Memorial Day. Hopefully you guys are having a great time. Hopefully y' all took off Friday and got a four day weekend. That's what I tried to do. I'm actually in St. Martin.

[DJ Envy]

We don't care.

[Lenae Beni]

St. Martin is. They do the thing called Soul beach each and every year, which is put on by Sinbad and his brother. So salute to Sinbad and mark his brother. They usually do it in Aruba, but they moved it to St. Martin. And as soon as I landed, they were like, charlemagne's here all the time. Charlemagne lands in here all the time. And then he goes to the other island.

[DJ Envy]

I go to Anguilla, baby. You already know. But I salute to everybody in St. Martin, though. They always show me and my family a lot of love when I'm there for 30 minutes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, a lot.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lenae Beni]

Cause it was like they were like, tell him to stay here. We have nice things here. Tell him to enjoy the island. I was like, he loves Anguilla. He has some roots in Anguilla. He just loves it.

[DJ Envy]

So that's. I mean, roots. I know roots in Anguilla is a stretch, but I got, you know, very much a stretch. Yeah, that's my. I got good peoples out there, though. Love Angola. Love the island of Angola. Love Saint Martin, too, though, man. Just love the island people. The reason we don't care, though, is because, you know, the Breakfast Club is a nationally syndicated platform. So the reason we don't care that you're in St. Martin Envy is because we're here in New York City where.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It'S raining, it's cold, it's 45 degrees.

[DJ Envy]

It'S 62 degrees, and we're low of 48. We still got on hoodies. Last night, I was in the street with a little light jacket on. I was like, what is going on, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't on that turtleneck.

[DJ Envy]

You see what I'm saying? If y' all don't believe climate change is real, I don't know what to tell you. Y' all done messed up this planet, not me.

[Lenae Beni]

I got my little toes out right now.

[DJ Envy]

Come on, you can't. You got basketball shorts on with no drawers. You just. I got drawers on, man. Everybody a ball for no reason. We did not just need to See that testicle? See a family show.

[Lenae Beni]

Oh, my goodness.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lenae Beni]

So it's 88 degrees here. Shout to a laser. 101 Saint Martin. That's their radio station. They allowed me to come here and actually do my show from here. That way they got strong WI fi, they got ethernet cable. So we're good money. Now who we got on the show today?

[DJ Envy]

Today we have David Hogg. He is an American gun control activist and political strategist and co chair of the dnc. You remember David Hogg. He was here back in the day after the Parkland shooting, but now he's the co chair of the dnc. So he'll be here because he's got some very interesting stuff going on as far as wanting to switch out leadership in the Democratic Party. But Lenae Beni will be here as well. If you know anything about the Internet, which I'm sure a lot of y' all do, she has a show online called Parking Lot Pimpin' and she gives a lot of stories, social commentary from there. But she's got a new show out on revolt called the People's Brief. Okay, she'll be here to talk about that.

[Lenae Beni]

All right, we got a lot to discuss today. Lauren is out today.

[DJ Envy]

She was actually somewhere warm too.

[Lenae Beni]

Yeah, she was heading to the doctor and because of Kid Cudi and the Diddy case, she stayed a little extra to see what Kid Cudi was gonna say she missed her flight. So she just landed this morning in the doctor. So we're gonna hold it down for the latest with Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

She should have left that damn courthouse. She could have got all that transcript from online pretty much. You can't let. I told you not tell her that this week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Lauren be getting stuff that don't nobody else get. Like, you know what the celebrities keep saying? Ayo said like everybody in the courtroom, the details of the details.

[DJ Envy]

I mean everybody in the courtroom getting the same information. I'm happy that she's there, but Jesus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Christ, people always say she say stuff that don't nobody else say they do they Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

She just shouldn't. You can't let it consume you to the point where you missing your damn flight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's a business trip for her too.

[Lenae Beni]

Yeah, so that's why she had to get her ass out there. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. More gonna be joining us and we got a lot to break down today. There's much in the news this morning. We got to talk diddy Kid Cudi, Remy Pap. There's a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So much.

[Lenae Beni]

We'll get on to it. Jess is going to be holding it down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry. Huh? Oh, now y' all want to give me the drawback.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Lenae Beni]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, everybody.

[Lenae Beni]

It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Start off with sports. Now, OKC beat the Timberwolves last night. 118, 103. They lead that series.

[DJ Envy]

Two nothing. Ant man, Julius Randall. What y' all gonna do? Y' all gonna make this a series or we just gonna have to sleep through the Western Conference finals?

[Lenae Beni]

I don't know. I. I actually need Minnesota to win because I think if the Knicks do win, we have a better shot at beating the Timberwolves in okc. But I gotta be beat the paces first. And we play the paces tonight at.

[DJ Envy]

8Pm so you worried about the wrong things. You need to focus on them damn paces and make sure that the Knicks can beat them. Okay.

[Lenae Beni]

I know, I know. What's up, Morgan?

[Morgan]

Hey, Happy Friday. How we feeling?

[DJ Envy]

We good. Good.

[Morgan]

All right, let's get into it. So first, President Trump says lowering the cost of drugs may end up being the most significant thing his administration will do. He made the comments speaking at the Make America Healthy event Again or Make America Healthy Again event, adding that he challenges high drug prices, and that will resonate for generations to come. Now, last week, Trump signed an executive order aimed at slashing prescription drug prices. He said the US Will no longer foot the bill for lower prices, drug prices in other countries. So let's take a listen to President Trump at his Make America Healthy Again event.

[Taraji P. Henson]

And now they're going down maybe by.

[DJ Envy]

85, 80, and I'm telling you, 89% in two instances. 89% cut. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. We were subsidizing the whole world. And I said, we're not going to do that anymore.

[Lenae Beni]

We've been a laughing stock for so many years. The last four years, we've been a laughing stock.

[DJ Envy]

I said it. We were a laughing stock. And now we're the most respected. I'm still confused by this, Morgan, because the Inflation Reduction act is already in place. Like the inflation reduction that was put in was actual legislation passed by the Biden administration, and that lowered prescription drug costs and made health insurance more affordable. And that's actual legislation, not an executive order. So what is what Trump did better than that?

[Morgan]

Oh, no, it's not necessarily that. It's better. But you know, the Republicans don't like the Inflation Reduction act and it doesn't necessarily address those overseas costs on certain things. Now Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Released his make America Healthy Again report, saying it's a call to call to action for common sense. Now he believes it's a roadmap for federal agencies to use to reduce chronic childhood illness. And at the top of the list was poor diet, an estimated 70% of US kids calories coming from ultra processed foods. US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins also talked about reforms and food stamps. Let's take a listen to their comments. Kennedy and Rollins, it's common sense that.

[DJ Envy]

Not all calories are equal in nutritional value. It's common sense that over medicating kids is dangerous.

[Morgan]

We are on track to sign multiples.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of SNAP waivers to get junk food and sugary drinks out of our food stamp system. And I am so proud.

[Morgan]

So other points from the MAHA report include too many environmental chemicals in our food, lack of activity and chronic stress, and the over prescription of medication for kids. Of course they're talking about trans and on things like that. Kennedy says the US Must act decisively to reverse the childhood chronic disease crisis. Now in other news, Harvard University can no longer enroll foreign students. That's according to Homeland Security Christy Noam, who sent a letter Harvard informing them that their eligibility or their ability to enroll foreign students at their university has been revoked. She says the university has not fully complied with all reporting requirements to DHS, including providing detailed records of foreign students. Ms. Conduct on campus. I'm not going to toss to her audio, but the Trump administration has already yanked millions in federal grants meant for the university. I anticipate seeing more of this with other institutions of higher education who decide to buck back against the Trump administration. So we will continue to keep you posted on what happens in these types of situations, these types of instances. That's your.

[DJ Envy]

Is that legal? I mean, I hear these things and I don't know if they're legal or not. It don't sound like that's something you should be you can just do. But can you.

[Lenae Beni]

Are you worried about legal with Donald Trump?

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Morgan]

I'm like you keep asking this question every day.

[DJ Envy]

That's right there. I don't know why I do that. There is no rule of law when it comes to the Trump administration. You're absolutely right. There you go. You're absolutely right.

[Lenae Beni]

All right.

[Morgan]

All right. So that covers 6am at 7am we're going to get some more details on this shooting that happened in Washington, D.C. at the Capitol Jewish Museum.

[Lenae Beni]

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

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Keep calling 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this? This is Wesley from Atlanta.

[Lenae Beni]

Wesley from the A. Get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Hey. Well, good morning to you guys. I. I got a theory. I think what's going on with Trump is the fact that everybody in the government really want him to do what he wants, what he's doing. I'll be thinking that, too, bro. He's doing exactly what the plan is. You know what I'm saying? He's getting things in order when it comes to finances and for the country. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not Trump fan, but when I look at all of our constituencies, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, everybody's just talking. Nobody's really doing anything. You know what I'm saying? Listen, I agree with you 100%. Like, it makes no sense. Like, even, you know, when you think about the last four years when Biden was in office, they told us, you know, how much of a threat that Donald Trump was, but they never acted like he was one. And then, you know, when the election, when he wins, and they're just like, welcome home. It almost feels like everybody's in cahoots with each other. Right. Cause if they weren't, if they weren't, I would feel like it'd be more resistant. Right, you know? Exactly, Exactly. Now, the other thing I do want to say, this Charlamagne, you asked all the time, what can we do? Like, every major government in history, for the most part, has been overthrown by the people. I don't think it's going to be in the government. I think it's going to have to be somebody that's got to stand up and take a million people to the White House and say, we want him up. You know what I'm saying?

[Lenae Beni]

You talking about protesting?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. That ain't going to end well if.

[Lenae Beni]

You'Re talking peaceful protesting, because anything else, like.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no. The day that happened, I mean, I'm not trying. I'm not trying to say go up in arms and stuff, but I'm just saying, like, dictators are overthrown by the people. You know what I'm saying, yeah, that.

[Lenae Beni]

Ain'T gonna happen here.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, the day that happened, they gonna activate martial law. I don't see that. Let a million people show up to the White House and watch it. Yeah, I don't see that going down.

[Lenae Beni]

Thank you, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Lenae Beni]

Smooth Jazz. What up, brother?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to shout out my city woman to North Carolina. Everybody doing a big one with their promotions and stuff. Shout out to Birdman Rant out there with the seven Bird clothing line. My homie Drew. Drew Richard with the film out here and everybody doing the business. Shout out to my homie Chase Body with his music, promoting his music and stuff, man. Did everybody doing big numbers, man. I just want to shout out to everybody from the port who doing their big thing. Yo, that's dope, brother.

[Lenae Beni]

Salute to you. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club. Ray. Ray. Ray. Yo, Charlemagne, Envy, what up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Lenae Beni]

I got an indoor pool.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hello. This is Will from South Carolina. What part of South Carolina are you calling from? King Street, South Carolina. Oh, Kingston. I used to have a ball out in King street at the Nightlife, man. Wow. What? Do you know what the nightlife is?

[Morgan]

Charlamagne?

[DJ Envy]

Don't play with me. You know, I'm from Moscow. I used to host parties at the Nightlife back in, like, 01 when I was working at Hot98.9 in Charleston. I used to be at the nightlife, like, every. Every Friday on 52. So you already know. Yes, sir.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

But I want to have a conversation with you. My homeboy, my brother. Yes, sir. I'm an activist here in South Carolina. Y' all were having a conversation last week, I think, about Tory Lane, about due process, you know? Yes, sir. Okay. Here in South Carolina, they had the mother and two daughters that killed a Mother's Day in 2022. I'm sure you're familiar with that officer going on the call, turned her lights, wasn't on, and she killed the whole family. So they had a jury. The jury came back and convicted on all charges. Even Tampa was evidence because when she hit them, her light wasn't on, and she turned the light on after. So that's Tampa. Whatever. Then we Went there every day trying to fight the case. Got convicted, looking at 45 years. The judge came back and gave them. Gave the officer three years. Three years. And she was the jury already convicted. And then we talking about due process. This been going on ever since Rodney King, all eight of the officers back then, if you remember or recall, we saw they beat Rodney King, whipped them with a stick. They got acquitted. So due process is not for us. It's not for us. It's only for the people that put in place to help them. They are the one who making the ball. So how will we get through process? But they want us to be patient and understand and go through the process. And we be patient and go through the process. It doesn't work for us. So when do we stop and start saying it's enough? Well, I'm a little confused on what you're. What you're presenting right now, because, I mean, you're talking about police officers, not regular everyday citizens. So, of course, you know, we see police officers get off all the time, but that's because they're police officers. Oh, you dropped. You dropped. Damn. Yeah, I don't understand what he was saying. Hello? Who's this?

[Taraji P. Henson]

You're.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Envy?

[Lenae Beni]

What up, Chad?

[DJ Envy]

Jess.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Hilarious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, boo.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Charlemagne? Peace, sis. What's happening? I'm doing good. Y' all know, I gotta call up here and promote myself. You know, I did drop a new song the other day. It's called Dance All Night. And I would like for everybody, you know, go check it out. Type in Twin Whim, wlmz Dance All Night. And it's a little pop record, a little something different. Nothing I think people are liking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, Different. I love that.

[Lenae Beni]

Okay, Trav.

[DJ Envy]

Dance All Night. Definitely different. What's it. What's it about, Charlemagne, Envy, check it out. Oh, what's the song? What's the song about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dancing all Night.

[DJ Envy]

It's really about just dancing and drinking all night and just being yourself and being able to live in the moment. Oh, yeah. About everybody that's going on around you and just, you know, enjoy yourself. Yeah, I didn't. I couldn't tell by the title what the song was about. That's why.

[Lenae Beni]

Was it inspired by the Diddy trial and everything? Dance All Night, Be free and all that?

[Taraji P. Henson]

No, I don't think that's about just asking.

[DJ Envy]

First of all, Jazz, don't ever. Don't ever mock me, Mama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry. But it was funny how you said that. No. Yeah, you gotta say them up Coming up, y' all.

[DJ Envy]

Five is coming up. You pregnant. Congratulations. Finally. Go, Trav. Listen, where can we find this record at Trav? On all streaming platforms. I really want y' all to take a listen to it, though. It is different. I wrote it for, like, you know, like a Bruno Mars, but I killed this dude, though.

[Morgan]

Okay, okay.

[DJ Envy]

But.

[Taraji P. Henson]

All right, y' all.

[DJ Envy]

Bye.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bye.

[DJ Envy]

Why Trav so gay this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know. Gay as hell.

[DJ Envy]

He ain't never been this gay on the radio, Trav. He's always gay. What are you talking about? I mean, I know he's gay, but he ain't. He don't be sounding gay gay like that was crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You asked him was the song inspired by that? He said no.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bye.

[DJ Envy]

I know what happened. I know why he sound like that. Because two hours ago, he probably was getting bottomized. That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dance all night.

[DJ Envy]

That's what happened. Uh oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bottomized is wild.

[Lenae Beni]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. Lauren is out today, so Jess is giving us that mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Period. That's what it is. And don't ask me what we got coming up next. That's it. Y' all just glad to see we hitting the kid Cudi. We hitting the Remy. She was sitting in the middle of the mall. She went twice alive. She couldn't even wait till she got in the car to talk back to Pap, so.

[Lenae Beni]

All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy.

[Lenae Beni]

Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club, man.

[DJ Envy]

Happy Friday. And listen, you know, today is Friday, so on Fridays, we do the. The people's donkey. Okay? So 1-800-585-1051. If you want to call up this morning and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, you can do that, and we'll put you on Donkey of the Day.

[Lenae Beni]

That's right. It's just back in the room. Cause for some reason, I can't see the view of the room now.

[DJ Envy]

No, Lauren is. Lauren is in the. She's in the Dominican Republic.

[Lenae Beni]

She getting a body done or she just. She hosting something out there?

[DJ Envy]

She's something with her arms. She just wanted to get her arms done.

[Lenae Beni]

Oh, okay.

[DJ Envy]

She got them heroin addict arms, so she wanted to get a little protein in her arms, from what I was told.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Lenae Beni]

But not.

[DJ Envy]

She come back looking diesel like Popeye. You know what I mean, we know why.

[Lenae Beni]

All right?

[DJ Envy]

But Jessica, Robin Moore is here.

[Lenae Beni]

So, Jess, are we calling this just with the mess, or this is the latest with Lauren and you just have a dad.

[DJ Envy]

Are we calling it just with the mess, or is it going to be the latest with Lauren? What you want to do right now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are we live? It don't matter. Yeah, just for the mess.

[DJ Envy]

All right. It's on you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just don't do no lies. She don't spare nobody.

[DJ Envy]

On the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shifter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was able to get y' all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see.

[DJ Envy]

It's time to set it off. You get that finger ready. You get that finger ready.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She got this room and Pat.

[DJ Envy]

All right, y' all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all do remember they back at it again. Back in December last year, Remy exposed the relationship between Pap and Clarissa Shields or whatever, and it was a big thing that happened or whatever. Now they back for round two. So Clarissa was up here on the Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club always get people in trouble.

[DJ Envy]

As if you're not a member.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Yeah, but I didn't ask the question.

[Lenae Beni]

Oh, boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I don't believe it. It's always on you, and you always act like you don't know what's going on. But we got the audio play that. Because she spoke.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't really have to argue about anybody about where my spot is with him. You know, it's like, that's not my place now. There are things that got to get handled, but it's still.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not even my stuff to handle.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you said there's some things he needs to handle. What do you mean by that?

[Jess Hilarious]

It's the elephant in the room. I don't have to say it. I don't know in his personal life, but that takes time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And like I said, that's not my.

[Jess Hilarious]

Place to speak on. You know what I'm saying? Like, it'll get handled. I just know that from my perspective, I'm with him. I'm with him every day, and when I'm not with him, we're on the phone every day. We love each other. So that's just kind of what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So the all is already given. Yeah, that's.

[DJ Envy]

We.

[Jess Hilarious]

We talk about so many different things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just clarifying.

[Jess Hilarious]

That still has to get taken care of, but, like, you know, once again, it's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not for me.

[Jess Hilarious]

You understand what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I'm not. I'm not married, so that was just Voice, Right? But I was just trying to get.

[DJ Envy]

Clarity on it was that line. It was the all that was already given that did it. That did it. That did it. That sent me to Instagram.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remy don't like being called an elephant, you know what I mean? Because she got upset, and then she caught wind of the interview and she hopped on live to give her side of things. Don't nobody fall in love faster than somebody with nowhere to stay. I literally told him, every time your come up, your current come up, says my name or does something that I feel is trying to attack me in any type of way, Imma drag you. And I haven't even been dragging them bad enough. You got my daughter's mom out here looking crazy because you refuse to tell people. Me and Rem haven't even slept in the same bed since May 2022. You were so wrapped up in a whole black love love thing. That was your thing. That was your. That was the only thing you had. And I realized that, and. And I. And I respected that.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't need to be out here telling people you ain't this and you ain't got this and you ain't doing this and you ain't that. Whoever get you.

[Lenae Beni]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See? And when she also spoke on why the divorce is taking so long, you moved on. Great. I'm trying to understand what's the hold up?

[Lenae Beni]

What's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the hold up? Who's holding what up? I had my lawyer called. Like, yo, we sent them the email, right? He gave his lawyer information. Yeah, you got it. You called him, right? What did she say? She said he hasn't retained her yet. If you don't go pay that lady, I said, okay, maybe. Maybe it's not there. Maybe, you know, hey, guess what? It could save both of us some money. We don't gotta have. We don't gotta have all our business out there. We don't have to do all of these. I paid my lawyer already. Let's get a mediator. I don't want nothing. I don't want nothing. I'm not asking for child support, spousal support. I don't want no cars. I don't want no crib. I'm not giving nobody anything that's. There's neither, yo. And then y' all know. So when this thing blew up, it's always been speculation about who left who. Did pap leave her cause she cheated or she did she leave him cause she got tired of him? Whatever. She also made it. She made it clear yesterday that it never. They didn't end. She didn't leave him because of infidelity. Infidelity have nothing to do with our breakup. Cause guess what? I'm such a real one. I know the procedure when somebody goes to prison. When I came home, I went straight through that phone immediately. I know what was up. When I had to fight baby mothers at mother in law's houses on Thanksgiving, I knew that girl wasn't lying about what she was saying was going on while I was there. I knew she wasn't. I just was mad. I just was mad. I knew she wasn't lying, though. So basically that's what I said. Which I didn't know about the fights that I had to fight baby mothers on Thanksgiving. Right. Houses y' all know about. Cause I'm not no corny ass. So she need leave him at the dago. What you dre say?

[DJ Envy]

No, I was gonna say I don't like seeing Remy and Papoose like this. Like, both of them have always been super solid. But I can understand why Remy's upset.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Because if you're dealing with somebody, you know, if you do, if you're dealing with something like a divorce, you don't want to hear the person's new boo speaking on y' all in any way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shape, any type of way. Even though Clarissa didn't really say. Didn't say her name or didn't even really say anything like violent or, you know, toward it. She still just didn't want to.

[Lenae Beni]

But the thing is. Well, first of all, you're dealing with two of the slickest mouths in the industry, right? So they're gonna go back and forth all day long. But the only thing is, I hate to say it, because I know Remy and I know Pap, but the only bad thing about it is if they both moved on.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Lenae Beni]

I think Remy moved on. Pat moved on. We don't want to see this playing out, Right? Yeah, but their daughter's gonna get to an age where she sees stuff online, and they love their daughter. They love their kids, and I hate seeing this.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's be honest. We don't want to see it playing out, but we want to see it playing out. We not the generation of Days of Our Lives and Bold and Beautiful, this our stories.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right. And this is also. Y' all gotta think about what she dealing with, too. When she wake up and she see, like, you know, how long people been telling her, oh, it's her fault. Like, she cheated, and she. You know, what I mean, like, I be seeing people come for both of them, but come for Remy Moore. Like, they've been on her ass.

[Lenae Beni]

Yeah. They've been coming for all crazy.

[DJ Envy]

And if you have not been speaking on somebody and you hear that new boo speaking on y' all relationship, you feel like it's coming from your ex. So I can see why that would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so. Cause that means you talking about what's going on, you know, and she's going in all these interviews, and she's saying she's not touching all the way, but she touching on it. You know what I mean? The elephant in the room. She did make it clear why she left. Shane didn't leave after all of that. She left. This is why she left. When I didn't want a man near Jer anymore, when I didn't want somebody taking 20% out of my check and I still pay all the bills anymore, When I decided that I didn't like being guilt tripped, oh, I was there when nobody else was there. That's the type of people that gets preyed on. I'm the one that said, hey, please leave. Why are we doing this? Like, this doesn't make sense. Like, y' all believed me when I said. Said this is the most amazing person ever in the whole world. That's why y' all think that, because y' all didn't see it. I'm lying. I did. Stupid. Like, hey, look at my new truck. It's a push gift. I bought that. So I did do something to put the sauce on it. But that's what you're supposed to do when you love somebody and you're in a relationship, you make them seem like they're bigger than what they are. Yeah. And, yo, she was live for 80 minutes. That was just the first time. Yeah.

[Lenae Beni]

I was about to say I didn't hear none of this yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. How long was she going live for? She went live for 80 minutes the first time and then passed.

[DJ Envy]

He.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He. He felt a little triggered. It was a whole back and forth. We ain't gonna get to everything, but it was a lot. He said this.

[DJ Envy]

You know, it's true. I wrote tons of her music, 90 of her music. I wrote it since I've been around her. I wrote probably, like three songs on her first album.

[Taraji P. Henson]

If I.

[DJ Envy]

If I listen to it, I'll tell you exactly what I wrote. And when you listen to it, y' all know my pen. The only reason why I'm mentioning that is because you fabricated. You fabricated and you Talked about my children. And as a father, I was not going to allow that. I've allowed you to do what you've been doing all of this time. And I said nothing.

[Taraji P. Henson]

She got mad at me because I.

[DJ Envy]

Went live and say, I didn't knock this lame out. Now, as a hip hop fan, that's what I need proof of. Like, that's a hell of a. That's a hell of a accusation that you wrote Remy's 90 of Remy's first album. And then I saw Pap say last night that he wrote Conceited. Yeah, I got it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pap, you gotta provide her biggest songs.

[DJ Envy]

I don't care about the relationship stuff. That's your business. But as a hip hop fan, I gotta see some proof of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then also, she wanted him to show proof also that she tried to get back with him. Because when he said that, he said, yo, you was just trying to get back with me last night. And I said, no, she went live again. We don't got time to play all that. But it's basically. It's a lot. And then also our biggest argument was like, yo, I just. I want the divorce. You know, she was saying, like, if you can't afford the lawyer, I'll pay for it, or whatever. Right. And then so he posted out of nowhere. Yeah. Like, filing was the easiest thing to do. And she said, if you look on a date, yo, you just filed this today? Well, this was yesterday when he was live, but he had just went to file yesterday. The date is on the paperwork and everything. Clarissa also took the Twitter to confirm some things. And yeah, y' all can go in there, refer to her too much.

[DJ Envy]

Can I ask one quick question?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Why do we always say the elephant in the room? Has there ever been an elephant in any room?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

And how did it get there?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nowhere.

[DJ Envy]

Like, why do we say that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I guess it's the elephant biggest thing.

[Lenae Beni]

That nobody's talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The biggest thing in the room. How could you ever ignore an elephant in the room?

[DJ Envy]

Why? Who bought it there, though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No idea. You know, Michael Jackson used to have animals everywhere.

[Lenae Beni]

We don't elephant no room that I know of.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, all right, Asking the question.

[Lenae Beni]

But anyway, I. I hate to see this. I mean, like I said, we love both of them and. And like Charlamagne said, we are hip hop heads. I mean, Remy has been spitting since.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to know if Pac was writing Remy raps. That's the only thing I need proof of all that relationship stuff.

[Lenae Beni]

But you also know they try to hurt each other. Like they're trying to hurt each other. Like they're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They' so upset.

[Lenae Beni]

They will say anything to hurt each other. We don't necessarily know what's false, what's true, but they're trying to hurt each other.

[DJ Envy]

That's how you know that's a hip hop couple. That's how you heard I wrote your rap. What?

[Lenae Beni]

But you don't remember a couple of months ago, she was like, I know you gonna come out and say you wrote my raps. Nobody gonna believe that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, she did say that.

[DJ Envy]

He.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that this must have been being said for years. Like even when they was together and arguing, he must have said it. He might have been rapping it. When it was a couple of things.

[Lenae Beni]

You don't want to hear is somebody got a small pp. Did anybody say that?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. All right. We talking about rapping, but that's how.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You hurt somebody got started on the Breakfast Club. This is what. We have to stop doing that to people up here.

[DJ Envy]

That's not true. That is not true. It was the elephant. Shut up.

[Lenae Beni]

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

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[Lenae Beni]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne. Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now. Last night, OKC beat the Timberwolves. They are leading that series to nothing. And tonight, my New York Knicks take on the paces. At 8pm we are home. We are at the Garden. We're gonna win this one. We gotta win this one. We can't play with you, Indiana.

[DJ Envy]

Shoot. Y' all played with them last game.

[Lenae Beni]

You right. We ain't playing with him no more. What's up, Morgan?

[Morgan]

All right, let's get into it. So more details are coming out about the shooting that took place at the Capitol Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. that left two Israeli embassy staffers dead. Yaron Lusinski and Sarah Milgram were gunned down outside the Capitol Jewish museum shortly after 9pm on Wednesday night. A man identified as Elias Rodriguez faces two counts of first degree murder along with murder of foreign officials and two firearm related charges. Rodriguez was taken into custody following the shooting outside of the Capitol Jewish Museum and he reported to have have shouted Free, Free Palestine while he was being arrested. Now, U.S. attorney General Pam Bondi said she's been in constant contact with President Trump since it happened. And the death penalty for Rodriguez is a possibility. She made these comments yesterday, so just don't want you to get confused about her saying yesterday she's speaking in reference to Wednesday. So let's take a listen to U.S. attorney General Pam Bondi.

[DJ Envy]

I was on the phone with Donald Trump all evening long. All evening.

[Morgan]

He called me first thing this morning.

[Taraji P. Henson]

The American west with Dan Flores is.

[DJ Envy]

The latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores and brought to you by Velvet Buck, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best selling author and Meat Eater founder Stephen Rinella.

[DJ Envy]

I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.

[DJ Envy]

Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On November 5, 2018 at 6:33am, a red Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in a ditch out in Sleephole Valley. The driver's seat door was open. No traces of footsteps leaving leaving the vehicle. No belongings were found except for a cassette tape lodged in the player. On that tape were 10 vile.

[Lenae Beni]

No, no no no no no no no no no.

[DJ Envy]

Grotesque.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh my God.

[Morgan]

Oh my God.

[DJ Envy]

Horrific stories that to this day have been kept restricted from the public. Public until now you feel in this too, a horror anthology podcast. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Someone was was posting photos.

[Taraji P. Henson]

It was just me naked.

[DJ Envy]

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Parts that looked exactly like my own.

[Morgan]

I wanted to throw up.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting the series took us through the darkest corners of the Internet and to the front lines of a global battle against deepfake pornography. This should be illegal, but what is? This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy and I'M Olivia Carvell. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart podcasts Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartradio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Michael Kassin, founder and CEO of.

[Lenae Beni]

3C Ventures and your guide on Good.

[DJ Envy]

Company, the podcast where I sit down.

[Lenae Beni]

With the boldest innovators shaping what's next.

[DJ Envy]

In this episode, I'm joined by Anjali Sud, CEO of Tubi, for a conversation that's anything but ordinary.

[Lenae Beni]

We dive into the competitive world of.

[DJ Envy]

Streaming how she's turning so called niche into mainstream gold. Connecting audiences with stories that truly make them feel seen.

[Morgan]

What others dismiss as niche, we embrace as core.

[DJ Envy]

It's this idea that there's so many stories out there and if you can find a way to curate and help the right person discover the right content. The term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Get a front row seat to where media, marketing, technology, entertainment and sports collide.

[Lenae Beni]

And hear how leaders like Angeli are carving out space and shaking things up.

[DJ Envy]

A bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Morgan]

He is horrified by what happened.

[DJ Envy]

Two beautiful young people were gunned down last night needlessly. You know, I saw his body being.

[Morgan]

Taken away from the scene.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was horrific.

[Morgan]

So meanwhile, Senators June, John Thune and Chuck Schumer are speaking out about the incident. Senator Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he's disgusted, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said people should be outraged about this incident. Let's take a listen to their comments.

[DJ Envy]

From everything we know so far, it is appallingly clear that event attendees were deliberately targeted. Such a blatant and targeted act of anti Semitism right here in the nation's capital should outrage everybody. A beautiful young couple about to be married, just starting their lives, gunned down, seeming seemingly because they were Jewish.

[Morgan]

Yeah, very, very sad situation. I'll keep you guys on that. Now, Senator Schumer also used his time on the floor to address the passage of President Trump's big beautiful bill. And speaking of which, President Trump's big beautiful bill did pass yesterday morning on a vote of 215. 214 with all Democrats and two Republicans voting no. House Speaker Mike Johnson is offering some advice to his colleagues in the Senate who will now take up the measure. After the vote, Johnson says he Hopes the Senate will pass the bill so it can be on President President Trump's desk by July 4th. Let's take a listen to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

[DJ Envy]

We look forward to the Senate's timely consideration of this once in a generation legislation.

[Taraji P. Henson]

We stand ready to continue our work.

[DJ Envy]

Together to deliver on the one big beautiful bill, as President Trump named it himself. We're going to send that to his desk. We're going to get there by Independence Day on July 4th. And we are going to celebrate a new golden age in America.

[Morgan]

It's definitely going to be new giving. It's giving new. All right, so senators have already promised to make some changes to that bill if it does become law. It would institute reforms to Medicaid, including stricter work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks. Excuse me. It's estimated the US will save at least $625 billion, but it also means 7.6 million Americans will lose health insurance over the next 10 years. It would also eliminate taxes on tips while putting billions towards fighting illegal immigration and a nationwide defense system like the golden dome I mentioned earlier this week, among other things. So I will continue to keep you guys posted as to what's happening. I believe that per this Memorial Day weekend, Congress is headed to a recess. So they'll be on recess all of next week and, and then they will return the following week. And speaking of Memorial Day, the weekend travel rush is already underway. Peak airport crowds are expected today with the FAA expecting record breaking travel. Over three and a half million people are expected to get to their destination by plane and almost 2% increase from last year. And then of course, there's also, they're also seeing people on the roads. Aaa is forecasting 45 million Americans will hit the road between today and Monday for the holiday weekend. So yeah, if you're headed out like you envy, you know, just make sure you guys are safe. Pack your patience and, and, and treat others with some kindness and respect. Because between real ID and the administration and everything else that's going on, you know, we could all use a little bit of vacation, a little bit of a break. But you know, in order to get to that break, we might have to stand in some lines and, you know, wait in some tr.

[Lenae Beni]

Yeah, like you said, give people, give, give yourself a little extra time. And remember, if somebody's a little late and they rushing and you got a little time, let them through. Let them through. You don't know what their day was, what they've been through, what happened. They could have got a flat tire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the way to the airport.

[Lenae Beni]

Give people some grace today. Oh, this weekend, I should say. All right.

[Morgan]

And one more thing real quick. If I can shout out the 82 2nd Airborne Infantry Division in celebration of their all American week, they reached out to me saying that they listened to US on Fayetteville, North Carolina on Foxy99. So hashtag airborne all the way. And of course, I want to salute, salute all of our military and our service leaders who have made the ultimate sacrifice. That is what Memorial Day is all the you know is about. So those who serve, we salute you and thank you for your service. That's your front page news. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media. For more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail] make it an amazing Memorial Day.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Morgan.

[Lenae Beni]

Thanks, Morgan.

[Morgan]

Yeah, you too.

[Lenae Beni]

Everybody else, when we come back, who's joining us? Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy]

Well, first I want to tell everybody today is Friday. And you know, on Fridays we do the people's donkey. Okay? So if you want to give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, okay, call up right now, 1-800-585-1051. And I'm going to let y' all give out the biggest he haw this morning. And our guest is David Hogg. David Hogg is an American gun control activist. He's a survivor of the 2018 Parkland Shoot In. And now he's a political strategist and co chair of the dnc. And he is doing some great things in regards to challenging ineffective leadership in the Democratic Party. So we're going to talk to him.

[Lenae Beni]

All right, we'll get to that next. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Lenae Beni]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. American gun control activist and political strategist and co chair of the dnc. Ladies and gentlemen, we have David Hogg.

[DJ Envy]

Good to see you, man. You know, I really appreciate a lot of the things that you've been doing because you are challenging the Democratic establishment and I just think we need more of that.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Yeah, I certainly agree. I think the fact of the matter is right now we have seen last election we lost voting share with nearly every single demographic out there. And we also lost against Donald Trump of all people. Right. And if that's not a sign that we need to dramatically change, I don't know what is. So that's really what we're out here trying to do is help to elevate a new generation and also make sure that nobody feels like, you know, that they can just be in their position of power forever, because ultimately, this is democracy, last I checked. Right. And it's about making sure that we have the best representation possible in every district.

[DJ Envy]

Do you feel like the Democratic establishment uses young activists as mascots more than partners?

[Taraji P. Henson]

Certainly at times it can happen. I mean, I know for a fact when I. When I started running for this position, you know, there were people who were certainly resistant, who I ended up talking to a lot of the time. That was actually one of my favorite parts about running for this position, because when you're running to be a vice chair, you have to call people and obviously earn their vote. And one of my favorite parts about it was talking to the people who at first did not want to vote for me at all. I mean, there was one person who I talked to who actually said in one of my first calls that I made to ask for their support, that I never talked to this person before this, that said that I should not do this. I cannot win, and that there is absolutely no pathway to victory for me, that they would not vote for me. That was the first call that I had. Very welcoming. Right. But what I said to them was, like, I understand that you're not in a position where you feel like you're not gonna be able to support me, but ultimately, I care a lot about the constituency group that you represent, so I want to keep talking to you, because even if you don't vote for me, I do care about what you care about. And ultimately, they ended up coming around and supporting me and being a huge supporter as well.

[DJ Envy]

And you were a survivor of the Parkland shooting. Was that what sparked the thought to get into politics?

[Taraji P. Henson]

Yeah. I mean, before this, I wanted to be a journalist because I wanted to scare the crap out of politicians that I thought were corrupt as hell and didn't do anything, ultimately. But I realized after Parkland, when my classmates and I mobilized for people that may not remember, we had one of the largest school shootings in American history happened at my high school in Parkland. And my classmates and I were obviously devastated after that. But I would say just as much as that. We were furious because we grew up hearing from our politicians, their thoughts and prayers over and over again after these shootings, but they weren't really doing anything right. I was. I think I was in middle school when Sandy Hook happened. I wasn't even alive when Columbine happened. That's how long this has been going on for. And we went out there, and we didn't say, go out and vote for Democrats or Republicans necessarily. We said, go out and vote for more religious leaders that represent you and your values. Right. And what we saw was one of the largest youth voter turnouts in American history. We took back the House. And what we saw as well is after Parkland, we didn't go out there, even though there was a lot of the pollsters and consultants and pundits that brought the Democratic Party to the place that it is right now, who told us, no, you can't talk about taking on the nra, the organization that stops these gun laws from changing a lot of the time.

[DJ Envy]

Insanity.

[Taraji P. Henson]

You can't talk about banning assault weapons because that's too unpopular, because this is Florida. Florida. It's a Republican state. Gun laws get weaker here because we did the opposite of what all those purported experts told us to do. We actually did change gun laws in Florida.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, because you're not fixing the problem if you don't go after.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Exactly. You have to address it. And because of that, we raised the age to buy a gun to 21. For context, the shooter at my high school, he couldn't buy a handgun from a federally licensed dealer because he wasn't 21 yet, but he could purchase an AR15. And then we passed a red flag law that can disarm people that risk themselves and others that has been used over 19,000 times in the state of Florida to disarm people that, for example, threaten to shoot up a high school or harm their intimate partner for, you know, and thousands of lives have been saved from that. And what I learned from that experience is that it's actually summed up well by Dolores Huerta, who I asked one time at a protest, what is the most important thing that you need to tell any young person or activist that wants to make change that they need to know? And what she said to me is, it doesn't matter whether or not the change is actually possible. It's whether or not you can make people believe that the change is possible more than anything. And that's what we did after Parkland. And I think what we're trying to do now is take that generation of young people who have been let down in so many ways by their political system, whether it's through gun violence, inside of school or outside of school, whether it's the housing crisis, the student debt crisis, or so much more, and show them that there's a new generation of people coming in that are people like Congressman Maxwell Frost. I don't know if you know this person. He's the youngest member of Congress. He started, he was working for March for Our Lives while I was in college. And he called me up and he said he wanted to run for Congress. And I said, that's awesome. But, you know, you're 24, right? You have to be 25 to get elected to Congress. And Maxwell, you know, he didn't come from some super fancy background. His parents aren't super wealthy or anything like that. He's just a normal person. And when he was running, he had to uber Drive from 9pm to 2am every night while running for Congress. And he was running against two former members of Congress, one of whom was a hedge fund manager while they were a member of Congress. Not a conflict of interest at all, Right? And then the other one had committed tax fraud while they were in Congress. And Maxwell was written off by the establishment so much, they said, you know, he's a great person, but he can't win. He can't raise that kind of money. And we helped him raise. I helped him raise about $400,000 in his first two quarters. But the thing is, the most important thing that somebody needs to run for office is the will, the grit, and the determination to get elected. But they also need a substantial amount of funding in order to get elected. And far too many young people with that grit and determination struggle to get there. And that's why we do what we do at leaders we deserve, because Maxwell ended up with that determination and that support, becoming the youngest member of Congress. That helped us spearhead an effort to get the Biden administration to address gun violence in a more substantial manner. And shortly after I graduated from college, I found myself sitting in the Rose Garden at the White House with Congressman Maxwell Frost, who I had just. I literally hired from my freshman dorm room, introducing the President of the United States to create something called the Office of Gun Violence Prevention that helped to coordinate the federal government's response to gun violence. And they oversaw about a 25% reduction in gun homicides over the course of about three years from that work. And that's because of the pressure that Maxwell helped to put on. But imagine if we had 30 Maxwells in Congress.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

David, going back to the shooting, you were just 17 when that happened, right? I can only imagine, like, what was. I know you said you guys were furious, but what is something that from that day, what do you remember most about that day that sticks with you today?

[Taraji P. Henson]

I Think what I remember most was just the sense of anger that I had at what had happened. But it was more righteous indignation kind of at like the injustice of what had happened, because I had spent the past four years in my speech and debate classes studying, you know, arguing about gun control, for example, and having to argue on both sides of it, both for and against it. You don't get to decide which side you're arguing on. You have to argue on both sides. And I was frustrated because I felt like I, maybe myself and my classmates could have done something before this because of what we knew from that education that we didn't, that could have potentially prevented it. So that's a lot of what I think about and of course too, the fear that one has. When my sister was just 14 years old that day and she lost four friends, that's really what I was thinking about was for the first time in my life, there wasn't anything that I could do to help my sister feel better other than to try to stop this from happening to other people. And that sense of helplessness is really what I hold onto. But I also remember the friendship and camaraderie that my classmates and I and the parents and teachers and other people that we worked with had in order to hold these politicians feet to the fire. Because if there's anything that I learned from that experience, when I originally went out and started talking about it, I wasn't doing it as an activist, I was doing it as a journalist because I wanted to talk about what happened that day. But I soon realized it wasn't going to be enough to do that, because you can't just talk about what's wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Taraji P. Henson]

You've got to make it better and say what needs to be done. Right. And journalists often can't do that.

[Lenae Beni]

We're still kicking it with the co chair of the dnc, David Hogg. Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy]

Let me ask you a question, David. At what moment did you realize you were more of a threat than an asset to Democratic leadership?

[Taraji P. Henson]

I wouldn't say that I'm a. I would say that I'm still an asset because I would say that this much is true. Right. If you're in Democratic leadership, it's kind of like being the coach of a baseball team. Right. Like, sure. Could you go out against a group of fifth graders and hit a home run? Absolutely. But ultimately, if you can't get other people on base.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Because they can't even swing the bat sometimes, it's not a matter of what type of bat they're using. It's a matter of can they swing to actually get on base in the first place? And it's a matter of getting new players. Ultimately, it's not a matter of, oh, can we. Can we just do more and more training? And I think what we need to do more of in our own party is, yes, we have to fight back to defeat Republicans, but we also need to give people something true and authentic to vote for. Where we're showing people how the reason you vote for us isn't just so that we have a majority, it's so that we use our majority to help you. Right. Because if we stuck with that politics of cowardice, we never would have passed the Affordable Care act in the first place. We never would have passed so many of the most monumental pieces of legislation that now are helping hundreds of millions of Americans around the country. Of course, there are challenges with Democratic leadership, but what I would say is, especially in the case of somebody like Hakeem Jeffries, let's get him the majority so we can see what he can actually do with that majority in the first place.

[DJ Envy]

He's not going to do anything. Here's the thing, and I treat it like anything else, right? Like, you know how they say money doesn't change you, it just. It just multiplies whatever you already are. More power is not going to change these people. If you're a coward with no power, you're going to be a coward with power. We've seen plenty of Democrats who have power, who are still cows. Hakeem ain't gonna do nothing different with power.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Well, I think if we. I think if we have the right people elected that are out there, they're gonna be able. Ultimately, sometimes it's not a matter of what you want to do when you have to get elected to those positions within the House. For example, if we get more people elected that are saying, no, this is not enough, we have to fight harder, that we're not. We're not just gonna stick in our positions of power forever. And we're going to say to you, for example, that if we're gonna vote for you, this is what we want to see. Because obviously, he has to be elected to be the majority speaker of the House by having some more of those young people that are on the front lines of these issues of addressing that. I know in those internal deliberations that it's not so much a matter of what he wants to do. It's more a matter of if he wants to get elected. He is going to have to be able to fight harder. And I know that those young people will push him to do that. And if they feel like he's not going to, then they won't vote for him.

[DJ Envy]

Have you ever been directly warned by anyone in the Democratic Party to stay in your lane?

[Taraji P. Henson]

There certainly are real challenges to the work that we were doing, but I'm not going to let that stop me. You know, I wouldn't say necessarily that it's like somebody is directly coming to me and saying, if you don't stop this, this is going to happen to you, or something like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Taraji P. Henson]

But they. That's not how a lot of these things work inside of D.C. a lot of the time, it's not necessarily necessarily an overt threat. It is essentially a tacit threat that we hear a lot of the time knowing that if X thing happens, then Y could happen to you.

[DJ Envy]

Why not call it out, though? Like. Like, why not?

[Taraji P. Henson]

Because ultimately it is. Because what I care more about is when there are people that go against me, whether it was, for example, in the vice chair race, I know the power from my own work in gun violence prevention, of being a bigger person, working towards victory. And ultimately, when you do that, a lot of those people start to come around, because a lot of the time in D.C. we have a lot of wind socks that go just whichever way the wind is blowing.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Whichever side that they think is going to win. And I believe in a politics of being able to reconcile those differences and work together, despite what people say. Because what's even more powerful, Charlemagne, is that when. When somebody comes out and tries to go overtly against you. Right. And they know that they did that to you, but they see that you start to win, and that's ultimately what they care most about. Then if you don't go out there and start calling them out publicly, one, it's not nearly as divisive, and two, it shows that you're trying to be a real leader. And ultimately, they oftentimes feel guilty about it, and they want to try to make up for it by working to help you, because they want to be on the side of working. And ultimately, that's what we're trying to do here, if that makes sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you respond to people that say that your work is too political? People are saying you're lame.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Like you don't. Like you're doing this for selfish reasons and not because you actually care about, you know, the whole party. It's to advance your political career.

[Taraji P. Henson]

No, no, no. So what I'LL say is when I, when I was 18, I. I said that I wanted to run for Congress because I thought that would be the best way to make change. But I realized when I was working with people like Maxwell and other other young people around the country how hard it is to raise money and get the resources to get elected. Because, of course, courage is that resource that we lack the most. But those courageous people, they need cash in order to get elected. And I could be one person myself to go out there and maybe I get elected to Congress. But ultimately, what is more, what is going to be more beneficial for the future. Right. One, I often do get physically threatened, not necessarily by Democrats, necessarily by any means, but by a lot of people who don't agree with the things that I say about strengthening gun laws. My family and I, we got probably over a thousand death threats after the shooting. I would say between online and directly in the mail, my house got swatted as well. And what I frankly have to think about is that I can't just be one person doing this, right? And there's a whole movement of people out there that are doing this, a whole movement of young people that have gone through these school shootings. And what I want to help do is I don't want to just be one vote that's out there. I want to help bring in a generation that is truly representative of our generation and not just what, you know, somebody who's able to raise as much money as possible to get elected looks like. And that's what we're trying to do with this is look at all the candidates that we supported last cycle where we helped elect the youngest person in the Georgia legislature ever, who's a seventh grade algebra teacher. Look at the person who we elected, Dante Pittman in North Carolina, who helped to break the Republican super majority out there.

[Morgan]

There.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Look at people like Nadarius Clark in Virginia, who broke the Republican majority in the House and helped pass all this stuff. So the reason why I'm doing this is because I don't want to just walk through that door myself and close it behind me. I don't want to just keep the door open. I want to take the door off the damn hinges and enable it so that future young people don't need to have the door held open for them in the first place. What they need to do that, though, is they need the funding to get elected and make sure that they have the right values so that they're able to reform our campaign finances. Because what I look at this as ultimately is an insurance policy for the gun safety movement, where President Biden's generation, they didn't go through school shooter drills, but they went through a different type of drill. They went through nuclear bomb drills, and they went on to pass some of the largest arms reduction treaties in human history to limit those nuclear weapons. And I think that's in part because they felt the anxiety of what it was like to be told by your government, just hide under your desk to survive a nuclear bomb. And the epic failure of leadership that that is. And I believe the difference from our generation is that the bomb is going off multiple times a year.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Taraji P. Henson]

So let's get them elected so that they can lead, like Congressman Frost, boldly on this instead of me just being one vote. Because it's about our generation and the story of are we going to continue having conversations like this in the future where school shootings remain in the headlines and gun violence remains in the headlines and so many issues that we should not have to deal with in the richest country in human history remain in the headlines, or are we going to leave them where they belong in the history books?

[Lenae Beni]

We still have David Hogg in the building, co chair of the DNC Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy]

Give me some other names because, you know, you keep mentioning Maxwell Frost. Who do you think is the voice of the Democratic Party? Or who do you think should be the voice of the Democratic Party? Or is there multiple voices?

[Taraji P. Henson]

Well, I think one. There's going to be multiple voices. Right. I think one of the great things about our party that also creates some challenges is, look, we are not a cult. We can have.

[DJ Envy]

You can't tell in recent years.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Well, sometimes I understand what you're saying, certainly given some of the responses that I've gotten to this. But ultimately, we are not a party with somebody like Donald Trump at the top that says you have to believe every single thing right here or else you were excommunicated and we're gonna try to destroy your life necessarily. It's not.

[DJ Envy]

That's true, David. Well, I've looked at the way people. People would really get upset with you if you had anything negative to say about President Biden when he was the one that we should have been speaking out about the most.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Right. And I, I under. I completely agree with you. Actually, I think one of the challenges in that regard that we have to address in our politics is that we have created a culture where people are told repeatedly what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. Right. What I believe happened in that regard is, look, when you're in the White House. And I've seen this in different ways, either in the White House or in other places. You want to keep your job, and the best way to do that is ensure that you get this person reelected again. And I think what happens far too often in our politics is that people get too comfortable and they just tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear over and over and over and over again. And frankly, part of why I'm doing this is because I met with President Biden in 2023 for an hour in the Oval Office. And one of the things that.

[DJ Envy]

Sorry that happened to you.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Well, it was a good meeting. And it was after he created the Office of Gun Violence Prevention at the White House that saw about a 25% reduction in gun homicides around the country. Part of the challenge is, though, you're not going to hear about the shooting. That doesn't happen. But I was meeting with him in that regard.

[DJ Envy]

Did you see the decline in him then?

[Taraji P. Henson]

So that was one of the challenges is I didn't see it personally. What I wish I had told him, though, because he asked me, how do I win back younger voters? What I wish I had told him, which of course I would have been laughed out of the room if I said this, was that he shouldn't run for office again.

[DJ Envy]

But that was the thing that should have been said.

[Taraji P. Henson]

I know, but that's what needed to be said.

[DJ Envy]

I was saying that. And everybody, everybody was so mad at me.

[Taraji P. Henson]

And that. But that's part of the problem is we need to have a more open conversation about these things because we also created an environment where people felt like they were excommunicated if they dared to say anything about it. And I, it, to some extent, I understand people were afraid about potentially re electing Donald Trump, but ultimately, look at where we ended up, right? We need to build a culture inside of our party where we are telling people what they need to hear and not just what they want to hear. That's what I did when I ran for vice chair Care. When I ran for this position. I said, you know what I'm not going to do? I'm not going to be a politician. I'm not going to contort myself into some pretzel of whatever you want to see of some bull mirage of, you know, when they asked me, should Joe Biden have dropped out? I said, yes, he should have, obviously. And then when they asked me why we lost the election, I said, why did we lose the election? Voters Told us two things. They said, prices are too high and Joe Biden is too old. And we said to them, with the power of $2 billion behind us, no, he's not. Yes, he is. And then we said, no, they aren't. Look at the stock market.

[DJ Envy]

And the majority of people don't have stock.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Exactly. And if you tell people not to believe their eyeballs or their wallets, you're gonna lose them.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Taraji P. Henson]

And I think what we need to build in the party is a culture of addressing the realities that people are actually going through and what they're actually feeling. Not just what a chart is telling us that they should be feeling, but actually listening to them.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, I'm just gonna throw some names at you. And because these people, to me, represent what the next generation of Democrats could look like, I just want to know what your thoughts of them are. Governor Westmore, Maryland.

[Taraji P. Henson]

I think Governor Westmore has done a pretty amazing job. He actually has a really cool program that I don't think has been talked about very much where he works. I think it's called, like, the Mid Career Program, where they've taken a class of several hundred young people and put them into different jobs around the state of Maryland. And it really helps get them started in their lives and their careers and, like, help turn things around. And there have even been people that have gone into this program that. That. That I've heard about, that started out literally homeless, that now have gone on to get jobs and do things like that. So that's great. I love Governor Westmore. I will say this much. If I can't talk at all about the. Any potential presidential nominees. I'm not saying that he is or is not running, but I can't give any opinion specifically on that.

[DJ Envy]

Pete Buttigieg.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Pete Buttigieg clearly was a very good Secretary of transportation, given the situation that we're in right now. And I think with Pete, he represents a level of sanity that I think people are craving right now. They're tired of the chaos that I think Donald Trump represents a lot of the time. I don't think people want to have a president that they have to hear about doing something ridiculous in the headlines every single day. That is, frankly, an embarrassment to our country and internationally as well. So I think Pete could be great. What I really like about him is that. And I'm just talking about, like, future leaders. I'm not talking about anything about presidential or anything like that, to be extremely clear.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I'm saying. This is the Next generation of what a Democratic looks like.

[Taraji P. Henson]

What I really like about him is I think he does an excellent job of talking to people who don't agree with him.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I agree.

[Taraji P. Henson]

That is what we need more of. That's what I think Pete is really good at representing, is helping to kind of bring people together and talk to the people that don't agree and explain without compromising his values, what we believe as Democrats. And I think that's really powerful.

[DJ Envy]

Few more names. Governor Josh Shapiro.

[Taraji P. Henson]

You know, I think with Josh Shapiro, he has a huge amount of favorability for a reason in Pennsylvania, ultimately. And, you know, I think it's interesting, as a swing state, they have a pretty close state legislature as well, and there's. There's been some great work that they've done on gun violence as well.

[DJ Envy]

Jasmine Crockett.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Jasmine Crockett. I love her. She is amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Taraji P. Henson]

I think that people want to see somebody who fights and calls out the. Ultimately, I think that's what Jasmine does. And we need a hell of a lot more people that are out there that are willing to do just that and call people out on their PS and not say, oh, my God, Republicans are going to criticize me for saying this. Screw that. They're going to criticize you no matter what. So what we should be asking ourselves is what are we really fighting for? Because we know it matters. And I think Jasmine is. Is frankly the type of leader that we're really looking to support in some senses. Right. Somebody who is out there that frankly doesn't give a damn what the other side's other side. At least the elected Republicans in Congress say that, say what they believe in. And at least, you know, even if you don't agree with her, you know what she stands for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Because she makes it very clear.

[DJ Envy]

Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Part of what was really great with Gretchen Whitmer and her focus was on infrastructure. Right. People, I think Democrats need to do a lot more of finding the issues that nobody likes and addressing them in a substantial manner. So part of her campaign was addressing poverty holes. Right. Really basic. Just saying, fix the damn roads. We need more of that.

[DJ Envy]

Aoc.

[Taraji P. Henson]

I mean, AOC has been a huge inspiration to me. What I really like about her is more than anything that you clearly know that she believes what she's saying.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Taraji P. Henson]

And she knows how to communicate on social media because she grew up with it. She's young. And also, she doesn't, you know, she's not out there taking money from special interest, you know, regardless of Whether or not you agree with aoc, at least you can say that she's not owned by anyone.

[DJ Envy]

My last name. These are people who I believe are the future, the now, and the future of the Democratic Party. Jon Stewart.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Jon Stewart.

[DJ Envy]

Jon Stewart.

[Taraji P. Henson]

So what I love about Jon is I think he and Donald Trump actually have the same greatest strength. And this is going to sound controversial. It's that they're funny. But I think with Jon Stewart, what I like about him is the same thing that I like about aoc. He's funny, he says what he believes in, and he gets done. And I know that because I saw when they were working on the PACT Act.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Taraji P. Henson]

That summer, Democrats were working on passing the largest expansion to veterans health care. One of those people that I met, you know, had worked for the federal government, and now he is facing a very real chance that his retirement is going to be cut by several hundred thousand dollars because of this bill that Republicans are pushing through right now. And. And I will never forget when Jon Stewart showed up to support those veterans and help get that bill passed. And it did get passed is one of the largest expansions ever.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. It's my hope. And I know you can't say this. I want him to be President of the United States of America. I really do. I think that he is such a fantastic messenger, and he actually knows politics and he cares about people and for the way the country is now and where the country is going as far as messaging, you need somebody like him front and center. That's just my thought. David Hogg. Thank you, brother. I like the work that you're doing, man. Keep fighting the good fight.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. If they can support you in any way, what should they do?

[Taraji P. Henson]

People can just check out our [e-mail] and you can also see on there, too, as we create more endorsements, who's out there as well?

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. It's David Hogg. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Lenae Beni]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Salute to David Hogg for pulling up. Yeah, just check out what he's doing. I really like what he's doing. And I want to salute Don Staley. Dropping a clues bomb for Don Staley. Her book, Uncommon Favor, is out right now. Basketball, North Philly, my mother, and the life lessons I learned from all three. Don Staley has been all over the place this week. You probably saw her on the Daily show last night. And Colbert and The View this week and Good morning in America. And I want to thank everybody who came to Barnes and Noble Fifth Avenue yesterday, the Don Staley's book signing for Uncommon Favor. And tonight she will be home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Enon Tabernacle at 7pm and I'm telling you right now, if you bought tickets to the Enon Tabernacle, it's it starts at seven. You probably need to get there around four. Okay. Okay. Yesterday, Don's book signing started at one. People started lining up at 11 for Philly. You probably need to get there around four. I'm just telling you. Okay. Just telling you.

[Lenae Beni]

All right, well, let's get to just with the mess.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious superstar. You're funny now you're just with the mess. Your news is real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she is so funny.

[DJ Envy]

I gotta say that she's one of my favorite people on Instagram.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Princess Hilarious. Whether it's hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore just don't do.

[DJ Envy]

And her news is on the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

Damn, Jess, what's the news today?

[DJ Envy]

All right, now pull that finger out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm definitely reading this.

[DJ Envy]

Pull the finger.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So y' all know Kid Cudi testified in court yesterday during the Diddy trial. And here's just a quick recap when it went down on the stand. So a little bit of backstory. Kid Cudi was dating.

[Taraji P. Henson]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Taraji P. Henson]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Taraji P. Henson]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Taraji P. Henson]

It was just me naked.

[DJ Envy]

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Parts that looked exactly like my own.

[Morgan]

I wanted to throw up.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting the series took us through the darkest corners of the Internet and to the front lines of a global battle against deepfake pornography. This should be illegal, but what is this? This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy. And I'm Olivia Carville. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 1978, Roger Couron's first book was published. And he was unlike any first time Canada had ever seen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Roger Caron was 16 when first convicted.

[DJ Envy]

Has spent 24 of those years in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jail, 12 years in solitary.

[DJ Envy]

He went from an ex con to a literary darling almost overnight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was instantly a celebrity, he was.

[Jess Hilarious]

An adrenaline junkie, and he was the.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Star of the show.

[DJ Envy]

Goboy is the gritty true story of how one man fought his way out of some of the darkest places imaginable. I had a knife go in my.

[Lenae Beni]

Stomach, puncture my spleen, break my ribs.

[DJ Envy]

I had my guts all in my hands, only to find himself back where he started.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Roger's saying is, I've never hurt anybody but myself.

[DJ Envy]

And I said, oh, you're so wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're so wrong that one.

[DJ Envy]

Rod from Campside Media and iHeart Podcasts, listen to GoBoy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In Cassie in December 2011, and he had claimed, he claimed that he didn't even know that they was still involved when he was dating her. But then one day he got a phone call from Cassie like, yo, he found out about us. He said, what? Who is he? So he turned out to be Diddy. So I know, right, the diddler. So that apparently all hell broke loose, right? Did he alleged that Kid Cudi, he got Kid Cudi's address from Cassie.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And ABC News broke it down. But before we get to the breakdown and everything, keep in mind Kid Cudi's name is Scott Mescady. That's what y' all gonna hear in this report.

[DJ Envy]

Kid Cudi had dated Cassie Ventura and.

[Lenae Beni]

She testified that it made Sean Combs jealous and angry.

[Morgan]

Meskity testifying about an alleged break in at his house in 2011, which he says was Combs showing up when he wasn't home. Meschetty testified that he had a tense phone call with Combs where Combs insinuates he was at Mesky's home. I said expletive, you and my house. And he was like, what's up? I was like, expletive, are you in my house? And he said, I just want to talk to you. I was like, I'm on my way over right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was like, I'm here.

[DJ Envy]

When he arrived, he said Christmas presents.

[Taraji P. Henson]

He had bought for members of his.

[DJ Envy]

Family were unwrapped, torn open, and his dog was locked in the bathroom.

[Taraji P. Henson]

What?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The interesting thing is they saying, you know, Diddy broke into the house, but it was no signs of forced entry. So it's like, yo, you just be having your door open or whatever. I, I don't know. But it was no signs of going.

[DJ Envy]

In somebody's house and unwrapping Christmas presents and locking their dog in the bathroom is a different level of diabolical.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it is. He like a big ass kid, like, yo, I gotta rewrap all this. He didn't take anything.

[DJ Envy]

He's like, it's trash. Trash ass present, all of this.

[Lenae Beni]

Now he had Chanel. He said they were Chanel bags. When I watched yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

Think about that. Trash ass presents. I been had all of this.

[Lenae Beni]

But you know what Cuddy said he was really mad cuz he said Diddy did something to his dog. He said, what did Diddy do to the dog?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He just locked him in the bathroom.

[Lenae Beni]

Oh, just locked him in.

[DJ Envy]

That was it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah. They also got a that nasty.

[DJ Envy]

Now I know where you was going. But God damn that they would have said that. He would have said, that's a different crime. Oh, they threw him under the jail. Listen, they'd have threw Diddy under the jail if they find out Diddy was out here diddling dogs. I'm telling you right now, forget all the Women, I promise you, white America ain't gonna let you diddle no dogs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A dog diddle was crazy.

[Lenae Beni]

I wasn't talking about diddling dogs. Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So they also covered the alleged car explosion. ABC News recapped that too.

[Morgan]

Meschety describing an alleged 2012 incident where his Porsche 911 convertible had been set on fire. It looks like the top of my Porsche was cut open and that's where they inserted the Molotov cocktail. Meskity testified arson is part of the Rackete hearing conspiracy count. Combs faces Cassie Ventura previously testified that Combs threatened to have Kid Cudi's car blown up.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Kid Cudi's car fire has been talked.

[DJ Envy]

About for years, but it's significant now because federal prosecutors are trying to convince.

[Lenae Beni]

The jury that Sean Combs used arson.

[DJ Envy]

As part of a criminal enterprise that's one of the predicate acts of the racketeering conspiracy. Conspiracy charge. Combs denies it. Now, how do they know that it was Diddy Was a Molotov cocktail in a Ciroc bottle.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Funny, they didn't. They didn't get there. But look, I just want to say, not that I'm justifying, you know, that it's not a car explosion, but when you hear a car explosion, you think the car boom. Like what Angela Bassett did on the way. But a Molotov cocktail is not really, like, that's not like a bomb. Like a bomb bomb. Like it's.

[DJ Envy]

I don't even know if you can call that a Harson.

[Lenae Beni]

Well, if the fire gets to certain parts of the car, it would have exploded, but they, you can see that they put it out beforehand.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. The car did not explode, though.

[Lenae Beni]

It's still awesome, though.

[DJ Envy]

But it's the intent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely still. Yeah. You know, the rumors that we've been hearing over the years, I'm like, all right, yo, he really blew up, this guy. I'm thinking about the whole.

[DJ Envy]

I'm thinking waiting next. Hell too. I'm with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, whole time. All right, so then. Oh, and I just do want to clarify. I said that Diddy said that he got the address from Cassie. No, no. Kid Cudi testified and said that Cassie gave Diddy the. His address. All right, cool. So after that happened, right. They met up to have a man to man conversation at SoHo. And this was the conversation.

[Morgan]

Shortly after that alleged incident, Mesky says he and Combs met at the Soho house in Los Angeles.

[Taraji P. Henson]

He said he remembered walking into a.

[DJ Envy]

Room with all sorts of glass windows and Sean Combs staring out the window. His hand behind his back, looking like what Kid Cudi called a Marvel super villain. But he said Combs's demeanor was very calm.

[Morgan]

Meskady said he told Combs that Cassie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Told him she and Combs were broken up.

[Morgan]

When the meeting ended, he says, we stood up, shook hands, and as I was shaking his hand, I said, what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are we going to do about my car?

[Morgan]

He looked right back at me, very cold stare, and said, I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

What you're talking about. And remember, Cassie Ventura had sent her mom an email just before Christmas, Christmas in 2011, saying that Combs had threatened.

[Lenae Beni]

To harm both her and Scott Muscati.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I'll tell you what, man, I can't believe that y' all are calling Kid Cudi a snitch. Like, Kid Cudi is not a street dude. He's a law abiding taxpayer, tax paying citizen. He. I've seen him in a wedding dress before. He wears mask, he wears mascara. Like, like man on the moon will absolutely turn the man on the stand. And there's nothing wrong wrong with that. Yeah.

[Lenae Beni]

The funniest thing about it is I don't know if you've seen a part where he was like, when, when I heard that, I said, diddy, let's meet up and fight. And then he said he thought about it and was like, nah, I don't want to fight. I'm calling 911. And then he called 946. Somebody just blew up my car. You're right. He's a civilian.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. So then after all that, K. Cudi claims that he realized that he got played by the both of them. And Lauren was in court yesterday and she said K. Cudi had a calm demeanor the whole entire time. And then yesterday after court, K. Cudi shared a post about the whole experience. Experience of him testifying.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to say, man, I've been seeing all the love and support, and I just want to say thank you so much, man. People have been hitting me up the past week, just checking in and. And even today, and I just. It really means a lot to me, man. You guys are the best. I love y' all. This is a stressful situation. I'm glad it's behind me. Yeah, I love y' all, man. The only thing Kid Cudi did wrong was not tell when it first happened. Yeah. I'm shocked that he didn't tell when it first happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he did.

[Lenae Beni]

He did call the police, Remember, he did call the police. He just doesn't know. They still don't know if it was Diddy, but he called the police as soon as it happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, he can't prove it was my. You know, the Molotov cocktail. Been there. So you know what else I was thinking?

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? What's up? No, I'm just saying. Meek Mill again. Breakfast Club, then got to this, man, we are always up here doing something.

[DJ Envy]

Don't say we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you was off yesterday, so. Me, Charlemagne and Lauren.

[Lenae Beni]

He didn't say Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know me, man. Look, play this audio, man. This is. This is us. This is why Meek.

[DJ Envy]

Man, nobody was talking about Meek in this situation. Did anybody talk about Meek in court? No, nobody talking about you, Meek. Why?

[Jess Hilarious]

But to Meek's defense, in the beginning, when them lawsuits dropped and they was mentioning the rapper and all that, they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People was like, that was me.

[DJ Envy]

That feel like years ago. That feel like years ago. Nobody cares. Nobody's thinking about you. Me.

[Morgan]

Hold up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait a minute.

[Jess Hilarious]

He was like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we did not dress alike, y' all. We wasn't twinning. I got my outfit first.

[DJ Envy]

You know what it is when you are at home on your phone and your. Your timeline is constantly filled with pictures of you and Diddy dressed alike and people saying things about you and Diddy. You think the whole world is talking about it. That's your small bubble, Meek. That sounds like I'm giving sound advice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Yeah, it was. But he. He. He didn't like that. Right? Because he commented to us. Y' all mad cause I speak up for myself. Y' all forget y' all two women are new reporters. I've been saving communities and helping families 10 plus years. We don't follow the word of talkers. Just your nappy head ass.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't even say nothing. Why would you even.

[DJ Envy]

No. What's funny is you ain't saying, my head ain't nappy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said, he got me on that. He got me on that. Me and Meek got the same bush. You know what I'm saying? Yes. The same Frederick Douglass that he had rapping outside the other night. But I do understand, like you said, when you. You constantly see. Yo, Meek, Meek, Meek, Meek. Meek this and Meek that. And yo, he, he. He this. And he that. And he got a 14 year old son. He said he will never let fake rumors about his name or manhood linger and be silent. But his son had to see all of this ish play out and deal with it in school. So, you know, we're just gonna send prayers to you and your son and stay offline, bro.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Mika's, the right to speak out if he wants to. I'd just be wondering why. But you know what I was thinking? I was thinking about this last night in regards to the whole Diddy Cassie thing. Listening to the Kid Cudi testimony. When you're diddy, why would you crash out over a person? You just smutting out. You got other men smashing her. You're letting her get passed around. But on the flip side, you mad she's sleeping with other men.

[Lenae Beni]

Yeah, but that was the thing. Allegedly he could, he could only have her.

[DJ Envy]

So, so he mad that she didn't let him watch her and Cudi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, like I think, I guess mad.

[Lenae Beni]

It wasn't the punisher.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He would have to be supervised. Like he would have to be the one supervising these sexual freak offs. If she's doing it, like she can't go out and have somebody by herself. Diddy gotta be supervised.

[DJ Envy]

I just don't understand why you would be crashing out over somebody. You, you just, you're literally just treating like a hoe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[DJ Envy]

Like that's not your wife, that's not the mother of your kids. You're not treating that woman with no dignity, no respect. But yet you out here allegedly crashing out, committing real crimes allegedly because of her. But I don't understand that.

[Lenae Beni]

I also think it was, who it was is the fact that these other gentlemen were in the industry. Remember he allegedly got mad and that, that she was, he thought she was dating Chris Brown and you know, Kid Cudi and then they said something about Michael B. Jordan. So he was mad at the industry, you know.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, well, when we come back, it's the People's Donkey Man. 1-800-585-1051. If you want to give somebody the biggest hee haw, call us right now. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now that's is how they choose. Call in now. 800-585-1051. Yes, donkey today for Friday, May 23rd is all about you, the people. Okay? It's the people's Hee Haw. On Fridays, I like to open the phone lines and allow you the people to give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid. So good morning. Charlemagne is from the Bronxia. You know, the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. So who you want to get a biggest he haw to? Remy. Both of them. I'm mad at them. Why are they doing this? Putting Their business online like this, going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Back and forth with each other.

[DJ Envy]

Remy is kind of blowing her own spot up. I'm from the Bronx. I've always seen women. But Remy already said before he even.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Said he was writing her rhymes that.

[DJ Envy]

He was gonna say that. So you already said blew up the spot. Pat, you going back and forth about Clarissa because you in love. Now they just doing the mama most. It's just a show. It's seeming like they trying to compete with Audi and what's his name? Offet. Yeah, it just seemed like a competition. It's just too much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It seemed like a show.

[DJ Envy]

I wish that Pat would. That's it. He said what he had to say. Now fall back, because then that would prove his point. Let me ask you a question. Should we blame the Bronx for this? Because, you know, the crazy people in America do come from the Bronx and all for.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Do we.

[DJ Envy]

Do we blame the Bronx? Does the Bronx get any blood?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blame.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does the Bronx get any blame?

[DJ Envy]

I want to say the Bronx. I would just say emotions as women. All women from all over get stupid like that. We're calling. Oh, Cardi from the Bronx, too. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. No. Okay, we're gonna go back to another point.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jeff, helpy, yo. Hey, Jeff.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, baby? Thank you for coming. Have a good day. Good morning. Who this? Hey, this is Justin from the dmv. Justin from the dmv. Who you want to get the biggest? He haw to Justin. The ups. My job. Oh, okay. Talk to me. Yeah, they. They fired a guy for being racist and sexist, but they have a. A slogan like a banister that says not in our house, and it says that stuff in the banister, but then they hired him back, so I just think that's just the biggest donkey in my opinion. Oh, okay. But UPS is a great job. Or is there going to be any backlash to you. You for getting on the radio and. And calling the donkey of the day?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The guy got his job back.

[DJ Envy]

It shouldn't be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They shouldn't even came up.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Taraji P. Henson]

What's up, Jeff?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, baby?

[DJ Envy]

Salute to all of you. Remember me, but I actually grew up with your first cousin, Tyreek Black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, damn. That's what's up.

[Lenae Beni]

She don't remember you.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

She must not like her first cousin.

[Taraji P. Henson]

No, she not even. Yeah, they going through something.

[DJ Envy]

I. I want funny business out there.

[Jess Hilarious]

It.

[DJ Envy]

But damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, it's all right. I. God bless you. Yo, that's what's up.

[Lenae Beni]

God bless you. When you done with somebody, just God bless you.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, salute to all the UPS workers out there. Y' all ladies really missing, y' all blessing, man. Them brothers got. Got. Got strong benefits, and they get decent earnings. Okay, so y' all missing y' all blessing? Not. Not dealing with UPS workers. Good morning. Who's this? It's Rock, man, from who's the Deadbeat? Man, Rock from who's the Deadbeat?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the podcast. Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir, sir. That's the name of. Go follow us on Instagram, man. Shout out to my wife, Sema, man, But I want to give a donkey of the day to all the fathers that man be playing, not going to court. Then the wife letting their ex dictate what's going on, man. Yes, but. But you. You only gonna go to court if you actually care about your child. Or some people go to court because they don't want to go to jail. But I would. I would hope that if you actually care about your child and you want to be in your child's life and get custody and have the proper visitation and make sure your child support is what it needs to be, you would take your ass to court. Yeah, exactly. But a lot of times these women be playing games, and they be. And these men be allowing these women to dictate what's going on because they scared of the courtroom. But go to court, man. Absolutely, my brother. Thank you for calling. Good morning. Who's this? This got Sam calling out in North New Jersey. Knew what's happening in Brixton City. Who you want to get the biggest he haul to? Going on 973. I want to get the biggest he haul to these drivers out here. I'm a trucker. Hey. Just gotta let you know, I need you guys to drive safe. Don't cut us off. You know, we try. We try to talk. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who you talking to? I'm talking to everybody out there who be driving wild around these. Y' all truckers be driving them trucks like they Priuses? Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all the problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, problem.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all be driving for, like, 10 years. Yeah, but y. I'm. I'm a careful driver. Well, I be seeing these Mack trucks be cutting lanes, like in a regular Honda or something. It's something out there that be wilding. I ain't going front, but for the most part, you know, I just want everybody to be safe, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

I need you guys to log to Chicken Fish 973 at Instagram. That's Our little restaurant that we got going on. So that's my sign hustle. That's what I do. What's a chicken fish? Chicken fish is. We sell chicken and fish chicken. And it's. Yeah, we have our own recipe. We marinate everything, you know, it's good. It's good. We got a little. We got a little bump going on in north.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This man said, what is chicken fish?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Who's this? I'm sorry.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Sean Stone.

[DJ Envy]

I'm driving right now. Last person I want to hear from on a Friday. Who you want to get a bigger, too? Sean, thank. Good morning, Jeff. Good morning. Good morning, Sean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you doing?

[DJ Envy]

You know what, Charlie, man, I won't call the show no more, bro, because I know that you don't like me. You know what I mean? So I want to give Dante to the whole staff at the Breakfast Club, okay? Because every time I call, they always hanging up on me. Just, Jess, they ask, who is this? As soon as I say Sean Stone, they hand off the phone. You know what I mean? Anything I try to promote, you're a liar. I'm not lying, bro. You're on the phone right now because I picked up the phone. No, he bought. Yo, J, listen. Every time I'm a call, a short, just. They're hanging up on me behind the scene. You're alive as soon as I say my name, Sean. You know what I mean? Last week, I called, I congratulate Taylor on her baby me. He told me, hold on. Then two minutes later, the phone just hang up.

[Lenae Beni]

Probably the number two person that call up there the most. So I don't know what you're talking about.

[DJ Envy]

This radio.

[Lenae Beni]

This right behind somebody else.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, I respect the radio. I always respect you guys. You know what I mean? But I don't get the same respect, you feel me? Anytime I try to promote anything, telling me, always quick to cut me down. You know what I mean? Like, he want. Like he want me to stay in sanitation for the. For the rest of my life. Yes. Anytime I try to promote something, I love the sanitation work.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay?

[DJ Envy]

Okay. We need y' all. No, you don't. You don't like Sean Stone. You don't love Sean Stone. You love everybody else. I love sanitation workers. We need y' all out here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I love you, Sean Stone. I love to hear you. Thank you for calling word.

[DJ Envy]

I respect you, Sean. You have a good one, man.

[Lenae Beni]

Peace to your kids, too, man.

[DJ Envy]

He just hung up on the show. Sean hung up on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, that's why he problem With y' all.

[DJ Envy]

Every Friday, we do the People's Donkey, man. You can call up and tell us who you want to give the biggest he haw to, or you can go to the iHeartRadio app. If you're listening to the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, you can go to the iHeartRadio app, hit the talk back button and talk to us even when we're off air.

[DJ Envy]

There you go. So do that. And you can hear yourself on Donkey of the Day on Fridays. Now, when we come back, Lenae Bonnie will be here. Lenae Beni. She started on Instagram with a series called Parking Lot Pimping, where she gives just a lot of commentary on social issues and political issues that are happening in our society. Patty. That has led to her having her own show on Revolt called the People's Brief. And she'll be here to talk about it when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

[Lenae Beni]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, Linnae Vanille.

[DJ Envy]

What's happening, Lene? Hey, how are you?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm good.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I'm sure that y' all see Lene all the time. Her Parking Lot Pimping episodes have come across your feed in some way. But now you got a show called the People's Brief.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

On Revolt Tuesdays at 9:00pm what's the difference between the People's Brief and Parking Lot Pimping?

[Jess Hilarious]

One thing. We got more time. It's 45 minutes. It's also not so, you know, every week, news, headline, it's more so evergreen. Things that are happening in the news, but things that we can talk about over the course of time because they affect us every day. And just giving people more tools. I feel like on social media, I've always tried to be more information heavy and just provide a positive outlook. But now that we got more time, we want to try to provide resources, too, and answers to questions and not just complaints.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How different is it from Parking Lot Pimping?

[Jess Hilarious]

I won't say it's too different. I still get to say what I want to say. We what? TV14. So less cussing, but the team over there want to do what I want to do, and that's like give everybody the truth and be helpful. We. We kind of take the same oath. Doctors do do no harm in as much as we can. Yeah, the tone is the same, but it's really cool because it's not. It's newsy, but it's not. I never taken a traditional approach to things. So it's like a mix of 60 Minutes and Tonight with John Oliver, the Daily Show, a little bit of Amber Ruffin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But with me, it was well rounded.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's very well rounded. We have a lot of fun the first couple episodes. The first episode this week, Tuesday, and I had Angela Rye on as my first guest. That was amazing.

[DJ Envy]

With my good sister Angela. Ra.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right? Yeah. We get to get out in the field, do some mail on the street. But a lot of good people come through, and we have a lot of fun.

[DJ Envy]

Do you write from a place of anger or hope or. Or exhaustion?

[Jess Hilarious]

All three of them. And it's funny you say that. Did y' all see Inside out, too?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, hell, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, not too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. If you've seen them, then you get the concept. I had my friends say, like, who's at our leaderboard? And everybody said, my top three are anger, disgust, and joy. Because of the way that I see things, I just. I'm real big on character above anything and the way you, like, contribute to society above anything. So more often than not, I'm disgusted, and more often than not, that makes me exhausted. And, you know, a lot of things made me angry. But I also think angry. Anger is a valid emotion, and it doesn't always have to present in a way that is heavy. It's just what it is. Like I'm a black woman in America. A lot of things make me upset, and I should be able to say that without. Without being made to feel like I have to cover up my emotions in any particular way. But I think the method of storytelling we uses combines all those things in a beautiful way that also shows that we're more than our anger or more than our joy or more than our exhaustion. We're more than our disgust. And we can be all things at one time and still be full functioning members of society.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How did you end up at Revolt? How did that happen?

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, good people speaking my name in good rooms. I've been very blessed to have a good team, no matter what I'm working on. And they've been fighting for me in different rooms. Rooms. I've been pitching different versions of shows, whether it's scripted, unscripted, for the past five years, and nothing's just been the right fit. But as I said, I'd be in tune with the Lord. And he told me at the end of the last year to stop trying to force things and to just put stuff down and let him work. And as soon As I said, okay. Wasn't even expecting it. Two weeks later, I got a call that said, revolt wants to give you a show. I was like, what?

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. And my hands were open, so I was ready to receive. So that's how we ended up together.

[DJ Envy]

I wonder, for somebody like you, Lene, what do you do when you feel like your words aren't enough?

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't feel like my words aren't enough. I feel like I do what I'm supposed to do, and I. And I'm okay with that. My contribution. As long as I do my best, I'm okay with that. Whatever the result is. Because whatever I was supposed to contribute is all I was supposed to contribute. Because it's not just up to me. It's not just up to anybody. Like, we all put in. We all have a piece to the puzzle to create the fuller picture. And sometimes it may feel like it didn't hit the way it was supposed to hit, but you got to give things time. Like, the sows, the seeds you sow always have their time for harvest. And I've just learned to be content and patient with my contribution.

[DJ Envy]

So. So sometimes you feel like you. It's like a call to action, almost like you might activate the person who might go out there and actually get active.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, that's. That's absolutely what I feel like my lane is. I feel like I am. My job job is to impart information, to bring as many people to the table as possible, to make them invested, to make them excited, and those are the people that go out and do something with it. Even when I left my master's program, my professors told me I was only going to be able to make money or make a life for myself if I continued to get my PhD and that's not what I felt called to do. I immediately wanted to go and share with very young people all the things that I learned in my program that I had to pay $25,000 and take out loans to get with all these real stuffy people that may not have the best methods as far as connecting with the general public. But I was like, if I can impart this in high school students, they can apply to college, they can go on career paths that with the knowledge, with a fuller knowledge of their capacity and ability and vocabulary and nuance to be change agents. So that's all I've ever wanted to do, and that's what I'm doing, and I'm grateful for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And as a Spelman grad. Congratulations. I love that. That what part of that HBCU experience has shaped your voice?

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, at Spelman, we got a saying, it's my choice, and I choose to change the world. And it's funny, I've said this, I've told this story so many times, but when I was first applying, I had teachers at my high school telling me they didn't think I should go. They didn't think that I would get in because it was too expensive, that it wasn't the real world. But we shouldn't be encouraging our kids in math to go to school to learn how to plug into the way things already exist. Like, we need to be disruptors, we need to be change agents. And that's what my HBCU did for me. I was a psychology student, but every single class you take, whether it's the biology of women, whether it's math, finite math or whatever, computer science, you take it through the lens of black feminism. And so we have a vantage point that allows us to see everybody's pain. And it just makes us.

[DJ Envy]

That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why we be the best applicants.

[Jess Hilarious]

For the job most of the time. Most. Most suited for the job most of the time because we see people. And so my HBCU experience really allowed me to see what people need in order to feel seen. And I try to put that in my storytelling as well.

[DJ Envy]

How do you, how do you navigate being both a political educator but also a cultural influencer and an algorithm driven world?

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, politics was never my game. It was never my choice. You couldn't touch me with politics with a ten foot pole. It just became necessary. So like I said, I've always been driven by what's necessary. And I started this work to really be steeped in pop culture and connect that through to history through an interdisciplinary lens. But as I began, I started in 2020, so politics was just like thrust upon us in a real way. And so I challenged myself to say, like, okay, I know that we need to understand this, so how can I incorporate this into what I do? And it just became even more and more and more necessary. So I just think because I speak to people, like we cousins, like we family, because I don't try to hit people over the head with it. And because I, like, I let myself feel all the things like a regular person feels. The algorithm can't beat the content that I'm putting out. Yeah. Like I draw people regardless. And people sharing it in a family group, chats, grandmas and aunties and, and kids in seventh grade and high school students all like talking about what was on the parking lot this week. And I'm really grateful for that because it's not about me in my parking lot. It's really about the information being shared. So I'm grateful for the anointing that's been put on me that's allowed no matter what's changed in the social media landscape, people to come to the parking lot every Friday.

[Lenae Beni]

We're still kicking it with Lenae Vanille. She has a show on Revolt Charlamagne.

[DJ Envy]

What's one political issue you think just we've become too performant and not solution oriented enough about?

[Jess Hilarious]

I think it's sustaining, period, Sustainability, period, in terms of how we organize, in terms of how we fight back against political oppression. Because we often wait the four year cycle to begin to complain about what we don't like about candidates and then are upset when we're not able to show up in full force and vote together. And that make a difference. I don't think that we give ourselves the opportunity for our work work to actually, for our work to return to us in a good way. Because unfortunately a lot of times we are motivated by rage and sadness and we want to get active when things hit close to home. But something is always hitting close to home for everybody. And if we don't learn to act as a community and have this sort of sustain. Garrison Hayes said in a segment in my episode this past Tuesday. He said, these people don't let up. They've been strategizing. They don't stop strategizing. So why should we? And we especially if we're already playing catch up, like it's never a day when we should just be like, oh, the struggle will be here tomorrow. But that means you should also be strategizing for tomorrow. And it's, and it's not to say that your life has to be completely shaped by that. Because I say often, like, I don't. My friends think I'm single now. And they're like, so what you want like a Mark Lamont Hill? No, like no, Shade to Mark. He's great. But I don't need that to encompass my entire life. Like I'm still a human being. So I'm not saying that you got to live, breathe, die, fight the power. But you do have to have some things ingrained in the way that you move about your day, period, to understand that the work never stops. So we just got to find that balance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And for you, I want somebody who knows that women can have babies.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Only women can have babies. I just want to let you know that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Interesting. There are other people who can have babies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. I mean if they have a un, they can have babies, but they just might identify as woman.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Two different things. Like you can be biologically female, but you can't be biologically woman.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Woman is a the American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from.

[DJ Envy]

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[Taraji P. Henson]

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[DJ Envy]

I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say, when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves.

[Taraji P. Henson]

So join me starting Tuesday, May 6, where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.

[DJ Envy]

Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On November 5, 2018 at 6:33am, a red Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned. Abandoned in a ditch out in Sleep Hole Valley. The driver's seat door was open. No traces of footsteps leaving the vehicle. No belongings were found, except for a cassette tape lodged in the player. On that tape were 10 vile.

[Lenae Beni]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh my God.

[Morgan]

Oh my God.

[DJ Envy]

Horrific stories that to this day have been kept restricted from the public. Until now. You feeling this too? A horror anthology podcast. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Someone was posting photos.

[Taraji P. Henson]

It was just me naked.

[DJ Envy]

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Parts that looked exactly like my own.

[Morgan]

I wanted to throw up.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting this series took us through the darkest corners of the Internet and to the front lines of a global battle against deepfake pornography. This should be illegal, but what is this? This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy. And I'm Olivia Carville. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart podcast podcasts Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Michael Kassin, founder and CEO of.

[Lenae Beni]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lenae Beni]

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[DJ Envy]

In this episode, I'm joined by Angeli.

[Lenae Beni]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lenae Beni]

We dive into the competitive world of streaming.

[DJ Envy]

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[Lenae Beni]

And hear how leaders like Angelique are carving out space and shaking things up.

[DJ Envy]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Gender construct. Okay, social construct. If you got a uterus. Yeah, you can have a baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, that's the point. If you have a uterus, you can have a baby.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, cool. Yeah, we agree on that.

[DJ Envy]

You know, Linnae, as the Democratic Party tried to co op your platform or Method J, because I was reading this article in the New York Times yesterday and it was the headline is Democrats throw money at a problem. But it basically is out there paying influences and they're trying to figure out how to utilize the Internet and, you know, deliver messaging.

[Jess Hilarious]

The game I think people gotta understand is Republicans have been using people with a microphone for years to just disseminate misinformation. So it's not even like that's not a tool that shouldn't be used because we do have to have some opposition. They haven't tried to buy me. No, I only talk to people I want to talk to. Like there's no amount of money, there's no check that just was make me want to like jump on the bandwagon, especially because I have critiques. I got to be able to say whatever I want to say. And the Democratic Party definitely got some things that need to be worked on. I had the honor of working with some good people in the CBC and that's the other thing. Like, we live in America. There's no institution that's got it right or has always had it right from Jump. So I don't sit here and act like I absolutely have to agree with something a body has done since its conception. But if I'm working with people who I understand are genuine in their efforts, like, I'm down with that because like I said, I'm trying to be solution oriented and do no harm in as much as I can.

[DJ Envy]

And you mentioned Garrison earlier. I like Garrison a lot too. Have y' all ever thought about being in politics? You the Garrisons of the world?

[Jess Hilarious]

Not me. I'm not sure what Garrison has planned. I have met some influencers who are interested in that work. I just don't think it's personally my calling. Like I said, I think my role is to inspire and my role is to work alongside. When we look at people who have been a part of our story as far as black history goes, we got people in every industry, and I think we forget that it's not just about politics. It's also about who is singing songs. It's also about who's acting on TV screens. Because even, like the Breakfast Club, who's listening to you guys speak every day. Like, we all have a role in getting people engaged in the process. And we have to be in the process, marketplace in mass and in different ways to be able to exercise enough influence to get people focused back in on the problem. So I'm just one of those people. And I consider myself more of an artist than anything, a storyteller. As I said, I'm getting back into my poetry and spoken word, but that's what I feel called and set to do.

[DJ Envy]

When you were at Spelman, what was your major?

[Jess Hilarious]

Psychology.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you want to be a therapist?

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely not. I wanted to understand people.

[Taraji P. Henson]

People.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So you majored in psychologists to be able to understand people?

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Dope. What did you want to understand about people exactly?

[Jess Hilarious]

Behavior. What drives behavior, Also what affects behavior. And you find out, you know, one of the biggest arguments is nature versus nurture. And you just find out all the things that contextualize those two things. Whether it's your upbringing, whether it's like a things you might inherit, also like what socioeconomic stress is that have affected your family long term, that can result in yielding specific behaviors or even psychotic breaks or what have you. I don't have to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but at the end of the day, and I also was a Person. I grew up in the Deep South Baptist. I didn't really understand that much about therapy. And I remember in one of my first classes, I was like, yeah, that's cool. And all I want to learn about bipolar disorder, but, like, black people don't really get that right. And it was like, no, girl, girl. We all are exposed to these sort of things. But anyway, I think at the end of the day, it just really helped me understand emotions and, like I said, the validity of them and giving them space to exist and what can trigger you and what can't. And then also how outside stressors like race, like gender, like sexuality or whatever also contribute to a person's well being. And I think saying it right now, I think what I just want most is for black people to be well. No matter what you look like, no matter who you with, no matter how you move throughout your life. I want us to be well, and I want us to be invested in the wellness of one another. Because the object and goals of oppression is to make us sick, to make us distracted. And if we are focused on one another's wellness and wholeness, then we can be stronger than ever.

[DJ Envy]

What's the moment where you realized your influence was having real world consequences, for better or worse?

[Jess Hilarious]

Real world consequences, Honestly, because I started during the pandemic, we was all inside, so I didn't get to really get to see people. But when we started to trickle back outside, and unfortunately, Atlanta was among the first to get back outside when people started meeting me and just, like, crying, like, talking about, like, how either I changed their perspective on something or I help heal a relationship in their family or even really what it was. I think I was invited to speak somewhere at a school, and an older woman, about 60 years old, she took me to the side and she thanked me for saying things she never got to say when she was my age. And that was really beautiful. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Lynaevani hosted the People's Brief every Tuesday at 9pm on revolt. And I guess we get parking lot pimping when we can.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, for sure.

[DJ Envy]

Where do they follow you at?

[Jess Hilarious]

You can follow me everywhere at Lenaevani. You can tap into the show on Revolt TV. You can also watch us at 11am the next day on streaming and then snippets of it on YouTube.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. It's Lene Bernie. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[Lenae Beni]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for pasta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Or.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, dj, come spin that. Come Spin. Nyla Simone. Big mother. Effing Nyla.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Grass.

[DJ Envy]

I love that jacket. What it say on the back?

[Debi Brown]

You say this every time I wear this jacket.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Planes, right?

[DJ Envy]

I don't got that. You know I like planes. Yeah, I need that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[Debi Brown]

You need to tell them to send it to you. But anyway, we have a lot to get into because it's a lot going on in the rap world right now. People online are calling it Joey versus the West Coast. Joey versus 20.

[DJ Envy]

Joey been rapping.

[Debi Brown]

Joey has been rapping. And I've been here for it. I've really been enjoying this battle. So let's kick it off. I'm gonna just do the. The most recent records.

[DJ Envy]

What's the battle? Tell the people who the battle is.

[Debi Brown]

For those who don't know the battle.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, it's really Joey Badass versus Ray Vaughn.

[Debi Brown]

Is that what you're narrowing it down to?

[DJ Envy]

That's how it started.

[Debi Brown]

Yes. Well, it was really. It started in December with Joey kind of coming at Kendrick, like, this whole time. Joey is really trying to get at Kendrick.

[DJ Envy]

Kendrick, Joey Badass.

[Debi Brown]

Kendrick is not responding. You know, Kendrick's on tour with sza, minding his business. So Ray Vaughan.

[DJ Envy]

Who's responding? Ray Vaughan and tde.

[Debi Brown]

Yes, Rayvon has responded, but reason has also responded as well.

[DJ Envy]

Reason have a reason.

[Debi Brown]

Everybody's reason is they gotta rep the West.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay.

[Debi Brown]

You know, people, it's getting, like, not territorial. Regional.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Debi Brown]

Yeah. So regional rap is back. And let's start with Joy Badass. Crash Dummy.

[DJ Envy]

You know why this is good? Because all this reminded me was, damn, I used to really like Joey Badass. And it's not like that. It's not like I dislike him now. He's just, you know, I just haven't heard a project in a while. I think the last thing he put out was 2000.

[Debi Brown]

And you like that project?

[DJ Envy]

I like. I like All American badass. I like 1999. I like Joey Badass as an artist.

[Lenae Beni]

But Joey Badass gets busy.

[DJ Envy]

He got into his acting bag, but this just reminded me like, yo, Joey, he can rap now. I felt like that last week, too, when I saw the Absol freestyle with him and Big Sean.

[Debi Brown]

That was the Red Bull Cipher.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Debi Brown]

Was fire somebody else from the West.

[DJ Envy]

As long as it stays on record.

[Lenae Beni]

As long as it stays like this.

[DJ Envy]

That was funny, though, when Joy said that some guy named Ass Cheeks coming to him. That was hilarious. Yeah. But now, because when you look at the name, you like AZ chicks. If you don't say easy Cheeks. It does look like it could be.

[Debi Brown]

Ass cheeks, but now. But now Ray Vaughn's trying to insinuate that, like, Joy Badass is gay because of his partying with Diddy.

[DJ Envy]

That's hip hop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's.

[Debi Brown]

Let's get into it. This is Ray Von's Golden Eye.

[DJ Envy]

Can't call. That's hard. Yeah. Can't call it Golden Eye. If he said he's standing next to Diddy, he should have called it Brown Eye.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's Ass Cheeks.

[Debi Brown]

No, no, no, that's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

His name is not Ass Cheeks.

[Lenae Beni]

Oh, my goodness.

[DJ Envy]

Rayvon Hart. The Good to Bad to something. That album is dope. The Good to Bad, the Dollar menu. That's what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Good to Bad at the Dollar Menu.

[Debi Brown]

Yes, it is.

[DJ Envy]

Ray Von album dope too.

[Debi Brown]

I just want to highlight Kai Cash because this was actually a really, really fire freestyle that he wrote. Wrote 1, 2. He's actually from New York because people are saying it's just Joey when it's not just Joey. There's other spitters. And I think Kai did the best and he dropped Nicks in the six the day that the Knicks won. So let's get into it.

[Lenae Beni]

Going off too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. That sounds like something you would have said to Lauren Charlemagne. Put more bubs and weaves. That was a bar.

[Debi Brown]

Yes. No, that's. That's Kai. And I see a lot of. Of people online saying, like, nobody cares about this G League rap. Da da da da da. And I just. I. I really hate that narrative. I think it's unfair and it's not helping. Like, this is healthy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lenae Beni]

N. It's dope. They spit.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, it's healthy. Yeah, it's healthy if you like hip hop. It's healthy if you like rap. I just happen to be a person who has been bumping the good, the bad in the dollar menu. So I'm already on Rayvon, and I'm a person that's always bumped Joey Badass. So, you know those two. I'm in. I'm all in for.

[Debi Brown]

Why is it just those two?

[DJ Envy]

You gotta. What about reasons? I'm old. I gotta fight focus.

[Debi Brown]

What about reasons?

[DJ Envy]

I have. I didn't have a reason to listen to reason. I mean, and it wasn't even this. I just didn't. And I like. I like all the lyrical exercise. And I'm not saying I'm not going to listen. I'm just saying my first priority was it was Rayvon and Joey Badass. I've been listening to them when they drop.

[Debi Brown]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

But everybody else that's involved.

[Debi Brown]

No, this is. Kai has gained a lot of new followers online. People are calling him, like, the mvp.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You put me on him.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been listening to him. So that's. That's dope.

[DJ Envy]

Lovely. And it's cool. It's peaceful. It seemed like they just doing it for sport. It's lyrical exercise. It ain't nothing crazy going on. I haven't heard anybody really disrespect nobody's family or nothing like that. Like calling somebody gay. That's regular.

[Debi Brown]

Like, you know, that's regular.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Regular to you.

[Debi Brown]

And envy.

[DJ Envy]

No, that's regular.

[Lenae Beni]

What you mean by that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That ain't regular to him. He said, don't do that in hip hop.

[DJ Envy]

Being called gay in a rap battle, being called a snitch, being called a sucker. Those are like. That's. Those are the basics.

[Debi Brown]

Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hip hop.

[DJ Envy]

Hip hop.

[Debi Brown]

Insult.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Basic.

[Debi Brown]

Got it. How do you feel about D1's take saying that? Like, he. He's saying that he doesn't like the beef and that it's un. Or it's unfair that people only care about rap when people are beefing?

[DJ Envy]

I think. I don't believe that. I don't think people only care about rap when people are beefing. And I think that if D1 knew some of the inner workings of what's going on behind the scenes, he wouldn't take this so serious.

[Debi Brown]

Oh, so you think this is just an album rollout?

[DJ Envy]

I'm not gonna say it's just an album rollout, but I think that there's a lot of conflict, conversations happening behind the scenes, more than people know. I think people are having conversations about, you know, all right, we. We just rapping now, like, you know what I mean? Like, you know, and I think people are taking it in that way.

[Debi Brown]

You think people are taking it that way?

[DJ Envy]

What you mean the artists are.

[Debi Brown]

I think the artists are taking it that way. But not the audience.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, they think it's, like, real problems.

[Debi Brown]

Yeah. That's why they invested, because these guys been rapping.

[DJ Envy]

We like this because it's rap. Joey hasn't rapped in a while.

[Debi Brown]

Joey did this earlier this year twice.

[DJ Envy]

What, did Joey put up albums? Yeah. I mean, the songs back. Yeah, but I'm saying that's. That's a while. From January to now.

[Debi Brown]

I mean, it is. I guess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kai.

[Debi Brown]

Kai just dropped the project. Cash rules. All I'm saying is all these people who are. Rayvon just dropped the project. These people been rapping for all these guys.

[Lenae Beni]

We're 11 minutes in on this break. 12 minutes in on this break.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's good for all of these guys, man.

[Debi Brown]

Yes. Well, if you guys want to keep up with the the rap beef, make sure you guys tune into my playlist. Follow me on Instagram, Ylasimone. And if you guys are in the Tri State, I'm actually having a little tea party. I'm collaborating with Brooklyn Tea. I got like, a little tea. I guess it's like a tea strand. It's a blueberry tea. So you can go there, you can get the Berry certified. I'm gonna be there DJing, playing some R B tomorrow morning, 10am to about 2pm so pull up on me if you guys want to get some tea or just catch vibes. And I'm recording the set for YouTube. So if you guys want to be in my YouTube set, pull up.

[DJ Envy]

Up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what's up, Nyla.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lenae Beni]

All right, Nyla. Thank you. Everybody else, let's get to the mix. You know, we throw back on the Friday, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Lenae Beni]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Reminding you guys. July 19th, my call show is at the 757 in the 757, Hampton, Virginia. So I need you to pull up if you have a call you want to put your car in the show. You can email me dj envcarshowgmail.com. i can't wait to see you guys. Family fun. The BBS boys are bringing the old school cars, new school cars. There's amusement rides and games for kids, and kids five and under are free. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. And we're gonna announce the Tri State show in the next four weeks. So Jersey, New York, we're coming to you soon. All right? Now, where you at this weekend, Jess?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am in Connecticut tonight. Get your tickets. I will be at the Foxwoods Casino. The show starts at 8, doors open at 7. And then tomorrow I'll be at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. So get your [e-mail], y' all. Listen, I ain't gonna hold y' all these Connecticut tickets. They ain't selling. I'm. I'm gonna be 100. Honest, I don't know what's going on. Boston selling like crazy, but Connecticut is not. I don't know what's up. I need a cousin to tell a cousin. Harford, Bridgeport. For real.

[Lenae Beni]

Y' all thing because you said you're going to Machu Chung, Connecticut, and I don't think anybody ever heard of Connecticut.

[DJ Envy]

Just give him the name of the club. What's the name of the club?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did. I've been stopped saying mash and sucking. I said Foxwood's Casino. That's all I've been saying for the last week.

[DJ Envy]

That's crap.

[Lenae Beni]

Foxwood Casino.

[DJ Envy]

Come on out.

[Lenae Beni]

Support my sis. Fox would pull up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And Fox would usually be jumping on Memorial Weekend.

[Lenae Beni]

Be jumping to Memorial Weekend.

[Morgan]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I. And they usually jump any other time I go. I've done Foxwoods like four different times.

[Taraji P. Henson]

Times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I mean, I haven't been in a while. But the. It's just weird. It's not. They haven't been moving as much.

[DJ Envy]

It could be a big walk up too, though, because people just might be around the casino.

[Lenae Beni]

It could be people be eating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know Boston, them tickets flying. You know what I mean? But Connecticut, I don't know what y' all doing, but y' all need to get the tickets. Jessalarisofficial.com I'll be there tonight, even if it's me.

[DJ Envy]

And 11 people have a big transgender community. Is that may what it is? Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please still come out.

[Lenae Beni]

Salute to Everybody out in St. Martin. I'm in St. Martin now. Salute to Laser 101, the radio station out there that allowed me to broadcast from there. Appreciate you guys. Laser, I'm out here for Soul beach, and you know that's owned by Sinbad and his brother Mark, so thank you for having me. We do it each and every year I come and I usually do the opening party, so we appreciate you guys. And then I'm going to Indianapolis on Saturday with Monster Energy. And I'm hoping, hoping when I get there, my Knicks will be. It'll be a tied one one. So I'm hoping because I don't want to go to Indianapolis down too.

[DJ Envy]

So. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Salute to Sinbad, man. And salute to everybody in St. Martin. You know, I mean, I, I. St. Martin showed me and my family a lot of love. When we be touching down on the.

[Lenae Beni]

30 minutes on the way to Anguilla.

[DJ Envy]

But it's very important, though, if you know, you know that you got. You gotta. If you ever been to Anguilla, you touch down in St. Martin, then you catch the boat over the Anguilla. So, you know, they, they are, they are very respectful and hospitable people there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I appreciate that's what's up, yo, and remember, you got to tell some bad. I love him, yo. Don't forget.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Lenae Beni]

If I see him, I definitely will.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not if I say him.

[Lenae Beni]

No, if I see him. Because I don't know. Because, you know, he was. He was. He was. I think he had a. I don't want to say he had a medical emergency.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he was just under some health conditions, so. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lenae Beni]

I don't know if I'm gonna see him or not, but I seen his brother. I seen Cedric entertainer. I seen Claudia Jordan. I seen a Chris Spencer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my girl Claudia there. That's what's up.

[DJ Envy]

Up. And also too, man. Thank you to everybody who has been going out there and purchasing Don Staley's book, Uncommon Favor, Basketball, North Philly, my mother, and the life lessons I learned from all three. The book is doing fantastic. She had an amazing book signing yesterday in New York City at Barnes, Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue. Today she's in Philadelphia at the Enon Tabernacle, 2800 West Cheltenham Avenue, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Uncle Bobby's Coffee and Books. It starts at 7pm Everybody that bought their tickets, you know already. Thank you. But you better get there early, because I'm gonna be crazy. No, no, no. I. I know the number. I'm just telling you that you should get there as early as possible. Okay, so it starts at 7pm yesterday, they was at Barnes and Noble in New York at about 11, and it started at 1. I would tell Philly if it starts at 7, get there at 4 if you can. I'm just telling you.

[Lenae Beni]

So she gonna sign every book?

[DJ Envy]

No, no. Tonight? I doubt it. No, no, no, no. She is signing them. No, no. She is signing every book tonight. She is. She is. She's signing all the books tonight. She is. She might not. She's signing all the books tonight.

[Lenae Beni]

Now.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. She's signing all the books. Yes. Okay. So salute to Don Staley. Go pick up her new book, Uncommon Favor. And the positive note is this, man, it is Memorial Day weekend. Salute to all our veterans out there. You know, we, as a people, we often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. And our veterans. Veterans absolutely deserve our gratitude, man. Thank you for serving our country. Thank you for protecting our freedoms. Thank you for bravely doing what you've been called to do so we can safely do what we're free to do. Thank you to all our veterans. Man. Salute a veteran this weekend. Have a blessed day. It's the Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

Being able to say, I Feel like crying. So I will cry today. I'm a little depressed.

[DJ Envy]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and.

[Jess Hilarious]

Deeply well is a sanctuary for your healing. I'm Debbie Brown, healer, well being, expert teacher and fellow seeker.

[DJ Envy]

And each week we explore what it means to become whole through soul expanding conversations and practices. Today, wow.

[Morgan]

I feel really powerful and ready to.

[DJ Envy]

Serve and use my skills and it's.

[Morgan]

Like that's the heart of what it.

[DJ Envy]

Is to be an authentic woman. To hear this and more ways to prioritize your peace, listen to Deeply well.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[DJ Envy]

The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts at.

[Jess Hilarious]

And T Connecting changes everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's.

[DJ Envy]

Gonna take us to heal us. It's Mental Health Awareness Month and on a recent episode of just heal with Dr. J, the incomparable Taraji P. Henson stopped by to discuss how she's discovered peace on her journey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never let that little girl inside of me die.

[DJ Envy]

To hear this and more things on the journey of healing, you can listen to just heal with Dr. J from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts at.

[Jess Hilarious]

And T Connecting changes everything. I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that we rarely ask ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Mental.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Health Awareness Month and on the psychology.

[Jess Hilarious]

Of your 20s, we are taking a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vulnerable look at why mental health is.

[Jess Hilarious]

So hard to talk about. Prepare for our conversations to go deep.

[Morgan]

I spent the majority of my teenage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Years and my twenties just feeling absolutely terrified.

[DJ Envy]

So this Mental Health Awareness Month.

[Jess Hilarious]

Open the free iHeartRadio app. Search the psychology of your twenties and listen now.

[DJ Envy]

Hi, I'm Radhi Devlukia and I am the host of a really good cry podcast. And I had the opportunity to talk to Davey Brown with women, any kind of thing where there might be this underlying edge of self sacrifice as martyrdom. If you're never filling, you're telling yourself a story and you're actually avoiding what you should be doing.

[Jess Hilarious]

You gotta get in, you gotta get your hands dirty.

[Morgan]

Listen to a really good cry on.

[DJ Envy]

The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, you're listening to an iHeart podcast.