FULL SHOW: Shannon Sharpe-Ochocinco Lawsuit Dismissed, Diddy’s Team Walks Back MSG Comments + Gary Owen Interview

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Episode Title: FULL SHOW: Shannon Sharpe-Ochocinco Lawsuit Dismissed, Diddy’s Team Walks Back MSG Comments + Gary Owen Interview
Release Date: August 8, 2025
Host/Authors: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Description: The world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club, brings you the latest in news, celebrity gossip, and engaging interviews with notable figures.

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1. Front Page News

A. Fort Stewart Shooting Update

The episode opens with updates on the tragic shooting at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where five soldiers were targeted.

• Brigadier General John Lubus provided updates on the recovery of the soldiers and the status of the suspect.

  • Quote (03:45): “One soldier remains as an inpatient here at Wynn Army... We're hopeful she may be released as early as this weekend.”

• The suspected gunman, identified as Sergeant Cornelius Radford, was subdued by fellow soldiers using his personal handgun. Investigations are ongoing.

  • Charlamagne Tha God (06:39): “Who does Israel answer to? Because it seems like someone is always trying to tell Israel to not do something, but they don't ever seem to listen.”

B. International Affairs: Gaza Strip Tensions

A significant portion of the news segment covers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments on controlling the Gaza Strip and his stance against Hamas.

• Netanyahu's Statement (05:12): “We don't want to govern it. We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life.”
• The US pledged increased aid to Gaza, while the UN and international leaders like UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and China voiced opposition to Israel's military plans.
  • Charlamagne Tha God (06:46): “They don't be listening.”

C. US Politics and Policies

• President Trump announced a sweeping increase in global tariffs, affecting over 60 countries and the European Union with rates of 15% or more.

  • Treasury Secretary Scott Besson (29:45): “We are trying to rebalance trade in America's favor... We want to bring back the high precision manufacturing jobs.”

• Honoring Purple Heart Recipients: President Trump honored nearly 100 past Purple Heart recipients, emphasizing their sacrifices.

  • Trump's Remarks (07:45): “Today, we give our everlasting thanks to you and your unbelievable families.”

D. Sports News: WNBA Sex Toy Incidents

The WNBA faces ongoing issues with fans throwing sex toys during games.

• An 18-year-old named Kaden Lopez was arrested for disorderly conduct after throwing a sex toy that hit a nine-year-old girl and her uncle.
  • Charlamagne Tha God (28:46): “The WNBA is on high dildo alert...”

2. Celebrity News

A. Shannon Sharpe-Ochocinco Lawsuit Dismissal

• Jess Hilarious (15:35): DJ Envy shares exclusive news about the dismissal of the defamation lawsuit filed by Jamilita Tillman against Shannon Sharpe and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson.
  • Lauren LaRosa's Commentary (17:05): “If you say some wrong news and I tell you it's wrong... they should be taken care of somehow.”

B. Diddy’s Madison Square Garden Comments

• Diddy's Team addresses previous comments about performing at Madison Square Garden (MSG), clarifying intentions amidst public scrutiny.
  • Mark Agnifolo, Diddy's Attorney (60:27): “While he did say to me that he hopes one day his fortune would take him maybe back to Madison Square Garden...”

3. Featured Interview: Gary Owen

Comedian Gary Owen joins the show to discuss his new special, "Gary Owen No S", and shares insights into his career and personal life.

• Charlamagne Tha God (02:59): Introduces Gary Owen and highlights his desire for a Netflix special.

• Gary Owen on Career Challenges (04:07): Discusses the hurdles in getting a Netflix special despite peers securing deals.

  • Gary Owen (04:14): “He talks about biting Nate Jackson's whole style...”

• Personal Stories and Exes: The conversation delves into Gary's personal life, including experiences with exes and reconciling relationships.

  • Gary Owen (11:22): “If you think that you can get the Justice Department to support and vacuum, you definitely wrong.”

• Legacy and Influence: Gary reflects on his legacy in comedy and the impact he hopes to leave.

  • Gary Owen (23:12): “Do you ever think about legacy at all? I mean, obviously you're so stamped in this, but do you ever think about legacy?”

4. Entertainment Segment

A. Eddie Murphy’s Worst and Best Movies

The hosts discuss Eddie Murphy’s reflections on his film career, highlighting his least and most favorite movies.

• Charlamagne Tha God (19:40): “What do you think Eddie Murphy movies are?”
• Notable Mention (20:17): "Nutty Professor" as Murphy’s career best.

B. Fat Joe’s Take on BET and gentrification

• Fat Joe comments on BET’s shifting focus and reduction in budget, likening it to gentrification.
  • Fat Joe (58:03): “He sold it to Viacom, Paramount...”

C. Offset’s Interview on Migos Breakup and Takeoff’s Passing

• Offset discusses the emotional and business reasons behind Migos' breakup and the impact of Takeoff’s passing on the group.
  • Offset (63:42): “One of the biggest losses forever...”

5. Audience Interaction

A. ‘People’s Donkey’ Segment

On Fridays, The Breakfast Club features the "People’s Donkey" segment where listeners can call in to humorously "award" someone for being foolish.

• Charlamagne Tha God (67:23): “You can call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid.”

B. Callers Share Personal Stories

Listeners call in to share personal anecdotes, particularly focusing on themes of leveling up after breakups and personal growth.

• Morgan (80:02): Shares her experience of leaving an abusive marriage and building a better life with her current husband.

  • Morgan (85:03): “I leveled up in many ways...”

• Charlamagne and Gary Owen Engage with Callers:

  • Charlamagne Tha God (89:00): Engages humorously with callers about their stories, maintaining the show's light-hearted yet insightful tone.

6. Additional Highlights

A. WNBA and Sex Toy Incidents Continued

• Nyla (28:11): Emphasizes the WNBA's stance against the ongoing sex toy incidents, highlighting the negative impact on players.

B. President Trump’s Tariffs and Economic Impact

• Discussion on Tariffs (29:45): The hosts analyze the potential long-term effects of President Trump’s tariff policies on various industries and international relations.

C. FBI’s Action on Texas Democrats

• Charlamagne Tha God (31:36): Discusses the FBI’s efforts to locate Texas Democrats who fled the state during redistricting protests.
  • Senator John Cornyn’s Statement (30:40): “We cannot allow these rogue legislators to avoid their constitutional responsibilities...”

7. Closing Remarks

As the show nears its end, the hosts recap the major discussions and tease upcoming segments, maintaining engagement with their audience.

• DJ Envy (99:05): Promotes upcoming events and interactions, encouraging listeners to stay connected via the iHeartRadio app and the show's contact number.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Charlamagne Tha God (03:45): “One soldier remains as an inpatient here at Wynn Army... We're hopeful she may be released as early as this weekend.”

• Brigadier General John Lubus (04:00): “We're hopeful she may be released as early as this weekend, but that will just depend on how things heal up over the next couple days.”

• Jess Hilarious (15:35): “The court had decided that they were going to dismiss it, but nothing would be awarded in court.”

• Charlamagne Tha God (06:39): “Who does Israel answer to? Because it seems like someone is always trying to tell Israel to not do something, but they don't ever seem to listen.”

• Gary Owen (23:12): “Do you ever think about legacy at all? I mean, obviously you're so stamped in this, but do you ever think about legacy?”

• Morgan (85:03): “I leveled up in many ways. And I thank my success to my current husband, who helped me through school, who helped me through everything.”

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Conclusion: This episode of The Breakfast Club delivers a compelling mix of hard-hitting news, celebrity updates, and personal stories, all woven together with the hosts' characteristic humor and candid conversations. From serious topics like international conflicts and economic policies to lighthearted segments and audience interactions, the show offers a comprehensive and engaging listening experience for both regular fans and newcomers.

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Transcript

[DJ Envy]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Gary Owen]

Every date is a damn delay. What up, Jess? Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The God peace to the planet is Friday. Hey. Hey. 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. What's happening?

[Gary Owen]

Yes, it's Friday. The weekend is here. Damn it. How you feeling, Jess?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, I feel good. You Good? Y.

[Gary Owen]

What about you, Charlotte?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, I feel incredible. Man, God is good. You know, when you wake up in the morning, you should really just thank God for another day of life. Because there's a lot of people, you know, who woke up dead this morning, right? So you know when you wake up and you know, you.

[Gary Owen]

They didn't wake up that stretch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, what is you don't know? Envy literally said the same thing yesterday.

[Gary Owen]

I said that yesterday. She wild on me. I mean, if I go to sleep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then I wake up, I'm gonna be dead.

[Gary Owen]

I'm like, yo, you not gonna wake up. That's the thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy listen. He listens to me too much. But no, you could, though. You don't know. You like. You know when you watch stuff like Avengers Endgame and you see them pass away and then they wake up in, like, you know, another place? Like, you could wake up in another place. We don't know. We really don't, you know, But I'm just. For everybody who woke up in this dimension.

[Gary Owen]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. Thank God. Okay. Thank God.

[Gary Owen]

All right, well, today, Gary Owen will be joining us. You know Gary Owen, comedian. He has a new special. It's called Gary Owen no s. It's on YouTube.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's on. Yes. Cause Netflix won't give him a special. I'm mad. I miss Gary, but. No, the only reason I keep bringing that up is. Cause Gary really wants a Netflix special. He always talks about it. Like, that's his thing. Like, he wants that, but for some reason, it just keeps evading him. But everybody around him gets one. You said we had Nate Jackson on a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, and he. He. He got one. And him and Gary used to do a podcast together. Yeah, he told y' all bring that up. I hope y' all bought that.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, he talks about that. He talks about biting Nate Jackson's whole style. He talks about Lauren and Lauren's wigs. He talks about Jess. And yo, we go through. We go through the gamut of all the things that he said in the last couple of months.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did not say nothing about her wig.

[Gary Owen]

Oh, he didn't? No, I made that up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Gary Owen]

Oh, sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I can. I could. I mean, any comedian that would. They would hone in on that, though. No, I mean, I can understand.

[Gary Owen]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That being a target.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah. So, yeah, so we had a great conversation with. With Gary Owen. It was. It was. It was a good conversation. So we'll get that back on. And then we got front page news. All right, more gonna be joining.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And also, also today is Friday, so, you know, on Fridays, we do the people's donkey. So you can call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid this morning.

[Gary Owen]

That's right. All right, well, we got front page news next, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, y'. All.

[Morgan]

Hey.

[Nyla]

How we feeling on a Friday?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Feeling good, girl. Peace, Morgan. All right.

[Nyla]

I love to hear it. All right, so first on front page, three of the five soldiers shot at Georgia Sports Stewart are out of the hospital. That's great news, right? Brigadier General John Lubus provided updates on the two who remain hospitalized, and he also praised the. The response to the shooting. Let's take a listen to his comments, get into it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

One soldier remains as an inpatient here at Wynn army right here on Fort Stewart. She's doing very well in high spirits. Of course, she's got a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of a road to recovery.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're hopeful she may be released as early as this weekend, but that will just depend on how things heal up over the next couple days. And we have one soldier that remains at Savannah Memorial. We trained internally for the worst case scenario, and our doctors and our medics and our soldiers responded exactly as we trained them to do. And now our job is to make sure that we care for them as.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As they walk through this.

[Nyla]

Brigadier General. Yes. He went on to talk about efforts to bring the brigade back together by offering support to their fellow soldiers. Of course, the suspected gunman, an active duty military member, was taken into custody following the attack. He is identified as Sergeant Cornelius Radford and he was stationed at the base and ended up being subdued by fellow soldiers. He's believed to have used his own personal handgun in the shooting, not an army issued weapon. But of course, the investigation into why this all took place is ongoing and I will continue to keep you guys posted. Meanwhile, in international affairs, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country intends to take full control of the Gaza Strip. Not to retain, but not to retain it. He sat down with Fox News. Two months ahead of the two year anniversary of the start of the war with Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas must be removed from Gaza. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We don't want to govern it. We don't want to be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Nyla]

So Netanyahu claimed Hamas is hurting their own people in Gaza. And he went on to say the only way, a different future for Gaza is to remove the only way to have a different future for Gaza is to remove Hamas, which he also called a neo Nazi army. He also claimed Hamas is behind the starvation in Gaza and Israel is trying to change that. Now, the US has pledged to help and offer more aid and open more aid centers in Gaza. Now meanwhile, the UN is calling for Israel to immediately halt its plans of that military takeover of the Gaza Strip. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released a statement today saying the military plans runs contrary to the ruling of International Court of Justice that Israel must bring its occupation to an end as soon as possible. Now, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned Israel's plan this morning as well and said it'll only bring more bloodshed to Palestinians. And China also spoke out against the plan calling on Israel to immediately cease its dangerous actions. So again, we will keep you posted on what's taking place on the Gaza Strip as it relates to the Palestinians and the Israel as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who does it, who, who does Israel answer to? Because it seems like someone is always trying to tell Israel to not do something, but they don't ever seem to listen.

[Nyla]

They don't be listening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, I don't have an.

[Nyla]

Answer for that one. You know who gonna check me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boo.

[Nyla]

Says bv. In other international affairs, President Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to speak with him and meet with him. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said both Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky both want to meet with him as as these Friday deadline today for Russia to start the cease fire talk approaches. Trump told reporters it's not, not necessary for Putin to meet with Zelinsky prior to the meeting. Prior to meeting with himself, he was asked if he will impose strict tariffs on Russia today if Putin does not come to the table. And the president says that's up to Putin. In other news, the Trump Trump President. The president. President Trump is honoring nearly 100 past Purple Heart recipients that took place in a ceremony yesterday at the White House on National Purple Heart Day. Trump said the nation gives the recipients and their families everlasting thanks. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[Gary Owen]

And we're here to honor and celebrate.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The unyielding patriotism and grit and devotion.

[Gary Owen]

To America's Purple Heart veterans.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Great emotion and great love.

[Gary Owen]

Today, we give our everlasting thanks to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You and your unbelievable families.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to thank you very much for being here. It's my great honor for sure.

[Nyla]

Definitely saluting those. Some of the recipients in attendance include three veterans who gave their Purple Heart medals to the President following the assassination attempt on his life. Yet last year. The Purple Heart is America's oldest military decoration and it honors those killed or injured in combat. So salute to those recipients. That's your front page news for 6am Stick around at 7am we'll actually get into what's happening with those WNBA games and those, those sex toys that seem to make it on the court. We'll talk about that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So them dildo still flying? I heard one. I heard another one got thrown last night. Another one. Unless that was an old article I was reading, I don't know.

[Gary Owen]

Red is keeping track, he said. Yeah, it was another one. It was a purple.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Purple.

[Gary Owen]

This one was purple. So they got neon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was purple. They done switched the colors up.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, they switched the colors up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we said that. Oh, wow. Damn.

[Gary Owen]

All right. Well, that is front page news now. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray. Ray.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, Charlemagne.

[Gary Owen]

Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, a outdoor.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pool, 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.

[Gary Owen]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Will. Thank you. How are you?

[Gary Owen]

What's up, Will? Talk to us. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I just wanted to complain and give my opinion about Jared White. J. White was one of the guys that went into capital on the 6th, and he pled guilty for what he did. And not only that, Trump gave him a pardon. Trump gave him a job. Now, he was a retired FBI employee, but now Trump gave him a job. But Trump. I read that story. Yeah, I read the whole thing last night. I fact checked it before I call you guys, because I call up a lot. And then on the thing is, with that Trump supposed to support officer, but 60% of the people that went in or 70% of people that went in the capital was white and they're sort of officer. But he's not saying anything. He's silencing about this to my brothers and sisters. When you go out here and do things, you got to remember who's in office. If you think that you can get the Justice Department to support and vacuum, you definitely wrong. That's not going to work that way because the DOJ offered the young man, the officer that shot in the building of Breonna Taylor, one day. So, you see, you got to realize what's going on and move differently. Yeah. Jared Wise was hired as a senior advisor by the Justice Department, but he did like you said, he faced multiple criminal charges on January 6th. And I researched this. Charlemagne, my brother, my homeboy be making up maybe about 250 or 270k. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy. They got him on. They got him on video, you know, yelling at law enforcement and calling law enforcement Nazis and yelling to kill them. Yeah, yeah. He's now the senior advisor of the Justice Department. Jared Wise. Yep. I read it before I quoted my brother, and I'm gonna say this because I don't know those guys get enough credit, but Charlamagne, brother, that be answering the phone for you, does an excellent job. Respect my shout out to him.

[Gary Owen]

All right, brother, Will you have a good one. Have a good day, man. Thank you, G. Thank me. D. Hello? Oh, I thought he said D. That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you want to hear?

[Gary Owen]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, this Darius.

[Gary Owen]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, just. What's going on? Y' all just want to give a shout out to my daughter. Sunday will be her very first birthday. Hey, congratulations. Happy birthday. Nice. My daughter, Nova. Yeah. Shout out to my wife. You know, she's been at home taking care of the baby while I've been working, traveling. So I want to give a shout out to them.

[Gary Owen]

Okay. Yeah. That's all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody gotta do it. Say it again.

[Gary Owen]

I said August 10th, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep. August 10th, 2024.

[Gary Owen]

There you go. The only reason I know is my daughter's birthday. August 11th. And she tell me every day, dad, there's eight days left. Dad, there's seven days left. Dad, six days left. Five days left. Dad, four days left. So I know. So happy birthday to you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy birthday, Nova. Appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, yeah, appreciate that. My wife is a big fan of yours. She was happy when she found out that you was coming on the stuff, so. Well, thank you. Appreciate that.

[Gary Owen]

Have a good day, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate y'.

[Morgan]

All.

[Gary Owen]

Get it off your chest. 805-85-10-51. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Danny, this is your time to get.

[Gary Owen]

It off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whether you're math or blessed.

[Gary Owen]

I hate the way that you walk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Gary Owen]

Call up next. 800-585-1051. Not just me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm with the culture feeling. Hello.

[Gary Owen]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, it's Tom. From Brooklyn to.

[Gary Owen]

From Brooklyn. What's up, yo?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up? Good morning, J. Morning, Charlamagne. Peace, King. Yo, yo, Envy, I just wanted to tell you. It was one day. I was up there joking every little single thing, like, y' all know how y' all do it. And then you. You say, get it onto your chest. I'm like, nah, that's. That's a big board. I will make all of those everything. And then not for. Get it off your chest. You need to change that to get it off your mind.

[Gary Owen]

I literally said that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, I'm with you.

[Gary Owen]

I said that as soon as I started working yesterday. Stay up there telling me, yo, that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A big pause every.

[Gary Owen]

Why y' all thinking about men? When I think of getting off your chest, I'm thinking women. What's on your mind, Ty?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just can't stop thinking about it now because you. Yeah, y' all was doing all them jokes. I was doing all them porn jokes. And then right after, you're gonna say, all right, get it off your chest. I'm like, hey, yo, pause.

[Gary Owen]

And who you getting giving that donkey to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I gotta Give it to him. What he be doing?

[Gary Owen]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey. Pause. Pause.

[Gary Owen]

It's possible, too.

[DJ Envy]

You said, I'm giving it to Envy.

[Gary Owen]

I'm saying it's gay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, yo. Yo, Envy. Yo, Envy. You think you could give me some Crossroads tickets?

[Gary Owen]

You coming?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm in New York. I'm gonna come to the Jersey show. On fire.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Gary Owen]

If you coming. I got you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said that. Yo, I need two.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, you want two? All right, you got two. All right, I got you, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He a young boy. You got two? He got two?

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, yeah, he got two. You coming? Who you coming with?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna find out. Somebody coming with me, though.

[Gary Owen]

You bring your boy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't know her.

[Gary Owen]

I'm just messing with you. I got you, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on.

[Gary Owen]

A lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stupid.

[Gary Owen]

I was trying to make him feel so uncomfortable. That's right. My car show was next Saturday. And shout out to American Dream Mall out in Jersey, one of the biggest malls in the country. They actually allowed me to put my cars in the mall to show off some of the cars that are going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To be in the car.

[Gary Owen]

So last night, I was able to. Tell me. What you laughing at?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, you, man. You so crazy. Come here.

[Gary Owen]

So shout out to American Dream Mall. I was able to do that. So if you go to the mall and you see my cars, take a picture and post it and tag me. And I would love to repost you guys. So salute to the American Dream Mall. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. We got the latest with Lauren coming up.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, we do. I broke an exclusive yesterday. Shannon Sharpe and Ms. Tillman, the woman who sued her for defamation, they came to a resolution. We're gonna talk about the settlement.

[Gary Owen]

All right. We'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren becoming a straight fat. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

What was the latest on the Breakfast Club?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

Yesterday I broke an exclusive that Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson, Ocho Cinco, they reached a resolution in that defamation lawsuit. The woman, Jamilita Tillman, out of Chicago. That's the woman who was viral in the Usher video. She had the moment where Usher went viral, and then all the people said she had a husband and her husband was leaving her, allegedly. Well, she came after or not came after, but she filed a lawsuit against Shannon Sharp and Ultra Cinco because they reported falsely, according to her, on that moment. And yesterday it was entered into pacer, which is the online system, that this was dismissed and that a resolution had been found and that the court had decided that they were going to dismiss it, but nothing would be awarded in court. So no money, no reward. I was then told by a source that outside of court, a settlement or resolution was reached. It was a mutual resolution that was reached. And I also received a statement from Jim Alita Tillman, and she says, we look forward to future discussions about the positive contributions Mr. Sharp and I both make to the community. I wish him, his family, and the business endeavors continued success. So that's done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That resolute resolution. Don't always mean that she got a payment, though.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, I was gonna ask a monetary.

[DJ Envy]

It doesn't. It doesn't always mean that she got a payment. But, you know, I haven't inkling of kind of what happened, but I don't know a number. But I do have a pretty good inkling of what happened. And I did try and reach out to her attorneys because Ms. Tillman said, you know what? I'm done with this. There's nothing else I can tell you. Cause I asked her, she's like, I can't comment on it. And I heard nothing back on the number.

[Gary Owen]

What's the inkling?

[DJ Envy]

The inkling is that I know that there was more than just a, hey, let's just get rid of this and. Or let's just settle this. But there was a. She's very well taken care of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There was a what?

[DJ Envy]

There was a. There was a settlement. There was money involved.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, so you think there was a payment? Yeah. This is from Lauren LaRosa. Lauren Orosa thinks there was a payment. Her opinion.

[Gary Owen]

Yes, her opinion. I mean, I will say this if you say some. Some wrong news and I tell you it's wrong and you don't correct it, and it's been a long time, and I keep telling you that it's wrong and it's affecting me and my life and things on Internet, and. And people don't take it down. Yeah, she should. She should be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

Taken care of somehow, some way.

[DJ Envy]

When I posted the story, I saw people reacting to it and kind of like, attacking her for doing what she did. And I don't. I feel like if she felt like it was incorrect and it was messing up what she had going on, like, what's wrong with her doing that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no, nothing at all. I mean, listen, free speech is not free. There's a price to pay for everything that comes out of your mouth, and folks can cash in at any time if they're spreading wrong information. So, like all the podcasters and the YouTubers, the content creators, the reality is, when you get on these platforms and say things that aren't true, you can be held liable. It's just a matter of when and if. If a person wants to pursue the case, they can.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, agreed. Well, in other news, shifting gears a bit, Eddie Murphy sat down with Speedy Mormon over on Complex360.360 with Speedy. Speedy be getting the people. Okay. This interview was. It was. Sweetie's interviews are very short, but they're always good. Eddie Murphy talked about a lot of different things, but one of the things he talked about was he ranked his worst movies in his best movies, or he tried to. Let's take a listen to Eddie Murphy on what he thinks his worst movies are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It'd be easier to name the four worst movies.

[Gary Owen]

Let's hear them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you got? Pluto Nash, Holy Man.

[Gary Owen]

Some say Norbert, but I like Norbit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love Norbert. You know, Norbert came out when. Right after I got the Oscar nomination.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There were articles. It was like, how can he get an Oscar? He did this.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's like two different movies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Norman, me, I wrote Norbert with my brother Charlie.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And here's the thing with Norman, when.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It came out, they. I got voted for Razzies for worst of the Decade, Worst actor of the Decade, worst Actor, and worst Actress.

[Gary Owen]

You gave me worst Actress.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They gave me a Razzie for worst actress, Worst actor, Worst actor of the decade. I was like, come on. Ain't that bad.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I thought that that was pretty interesting. Whereas actor was actress at the same time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. He also talked about, you know, just in playing in the Nutty Professor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. I disagree with it. His mouth. I mean, that's his Mount Rushmore, but, you know, what's yours? I disagree with his Mount Rushmore. What you think Eddie Murphy movies.

[Gary Owen]

He talk about his worst movies. He said, oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said, okay, I'm about to get to the. I'm about to get to his best.

[DJ Envy]

Now you can do it when I do the best, so I'll come back to you. So we're gonna get to the best movies that he thinks were the best of his career. But he did mention that if he had to tell people, like, one character that, like, showcases his career best, it would be Nutty professor, because he did so much in that movie. And then Speedy asked him, well, what were your best movies? Rank those. Let's take a listen to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Nutty professor has a bunch of stuff in it. It's all these different characters and have to play different stuff.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And if I just had to just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take one movie just to represent my whole, it would be Nutty Professor.

[Gary Owen]

When you think about what the Mount Rushmore of Eddie Murphy movies is, what's on there for you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Coming to America? Yes. Nutty professor. Shrek. Let's say 48 hours. Oh, no, no, wait a second. Because Dream Girls is great. Yeah. So let's take off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll take 48 hours off and put Dream Girls on.

[Gary Owen]

No Beverly Hills Cop. Well, what about life? Life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly. Yes, exactly. See, for me, it would be Coming to America, Life, Nutty Professor. And then I'm on that last one. I'm a little hung up between Golden Child, Harlem Nights.

[Gary Owen]

Harlem Nights, Yeah, that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That my. That's my same one, but Harlem Nights. Okay.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah. See, mine is. My favorite movie of all time is Coming to America. I watched that a thousand times now. I watched Life a thousand times. Life, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

Call them Nights.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Coming to America, Life and Nutty professor seemed like givens to me. It's just that last one out, that last one between Golden Child, Harlem Nights and Boomerang. I get. I was getting hung up on when you said that. When I saw. When I saw.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, Golden Child. I forgot about Golden. Oh, man, that was a classic.

[DJ Envy]

He was saying it was just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it was just interesting, though. First of all, dropping the clues. Boss was Speedy. It was just interesting to listen to what Eddie thought his best movies were. Because I ain't. I wasn't with. I like those movies he named, but I'm like, nah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And out of all those movies, Charlamagne. It seems like you listened to the interview, but hopefully maybe Justin Envy didn't. Out of all those movies, how many do you guys think he actually had to audition for?

[Gary Owen]

None of them his whole career. I heard Beverly Hills Cop because it wasn't that for me. For somebody else. And then he tried it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought it was either Beverly Hills copy. 48 hours was made for Sylvester Stallone. I forgot who. I forgot which one. Like what, one or two times.

[Gary Owen]

One or two Times.

[DJ Envy]

Eddie Murphy said out of his whole career, he's never had to audition for one movie. But he did have to audition for snl. That was the only thing he's ever auditioned for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[Gary Owen]

I said none. Yeah, I thought one.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

Some things are just written for certain people. When, you know, you writing these projects, you already got somebody in mind.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. And he's genius, 100%. And out of his big career, he talked about his legacy and how he wants people to remember his legacy based on his career. Let's take a listen to that as we close.

[Gary Owen]

Do you ever think about legacy at all? I mean, obviously you're so stamped in this, but do you ever think about legacy?

[Lauren LaRosa]

My legacy is my children.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, this is what I do to make a living. It's not my legacy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not my legacy at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My legacy is, you know, my children that I produce these wonderful, well balanced.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Human beings that I'm proud of.

[Gary Owen]

Ten of them, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. That are good people. That are 10 good people. Like, I don't have the one. Oh, this is the bull ass celebrity nut, kid. I don't have any of that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, all my kids are really good people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's my legacy that, you know, I got these great kids that I produced. Dope. Yes, dope. Fire drop on the clues. Bombs for Eddie Murphy, man. Eddie Murphy. Hall. Yeah, I dropped for speedy earlier, but Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Kenny Keenan, Ivy Wayans, Robert Townsend, that's different level legends right there, man. Different level of icons. We throw those words around legend and icon when it comes to certain people. But those individuals, different foundations. Foundations of black Hollywood.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, you got to put Martin in there. You got to put Will Smith as well. Hell, yeah. Yeah, but those are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, man, I said who? I said, bro. Yeah, it's a different era. Eddie, Arsenio and Keenan and Robert Townsend was a different era.

[DJ Envy]

Delay in his mic, he wants you to know. No, I don't agree.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a different era, man.

[Gary Owen]

I'm talking about the different era. Yeah, that era.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. But when we talk about the foundations of how Martin and Will stand on the shoulders of people like Eddie, Arsenio, Kenan and Robert Towns, y', all shoulders.

[Gary Owen]

I can't with Jess. All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

You're welcome.

[Gary Owen]

Now when we come back, we got front page news. And then Gary Owen is coming in here to check Lauren. So we'll get into that in a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

Don't do that. Don't get that white man in trouble this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Gary Owen]

That's the Breakfast level.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you gotta be white?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody.

[Gary Owen]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news and some quick dildo news. Another dildo was thrown on.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

This time.

[Gary Owen]

It was enough is enough. It was a purple dildo this time. So they changed the color from lime green to purple, and they did it with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ladies, two seconds left, Ladies. I'm gonna tell you how you get your kid back. When the NBA start, you got to start throwing pocket pocket poom pooms on the. On the floor. No, that's what you got to do. You gotta. Yes. Go get them little pocket pom poms and throw them on the floor at the NBA games. That's how you get your get back. Okay.

[Nyla]

All right, y', all, let's get into it. So WNBA is dealing with more incidents involving the sex toys being thrown at games. Now, one recently landed near the feet of Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham, who had previously asked fans on social media to stop posting. Excuse me, stop growing them, because it would end up hurting a player. Now, the first incident happened on July 29 in Atlanta, followed by multiple incidents leading up to last night as MB spoke about. This comes most recently as a man is facing legal trouble. Now, he isn't the guy that's actually doing them. He's only just. Okay, spoiler alert. He just following the trend. Okay, so this guy is in legal trouble after throwing a sex toy that struck a nine year old girl and her uncle at a WNBA game. 18 year old Kaden Lopez was booked into Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of disorderly conduct, assault and public display of explicit sexual material during a game between the Connecticut sun and Mercury Phoenix on Tuesday. Now, Lopez reportedly told officers he was sorry and he was following a stupid prank that was trending on social media. Now, according to court documents, the adult male victim was interviewed and says that he does desire prosecution. So y' all better be careful. And, you know, doing all of this, the WNBA coaches are, you know, coming out basically saying, we're not the butt of a joke, that Cheryl Reeves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not.

[Nyla]

The butt of a joke. But, you know, they're pretty livid with what's going on and they wanted to stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So. Yeah, so. So right now the WNBA is on high dildo alert because a lot of this stuff is happening towards the end of the game. And so I know around like the last several seconds of the game, everybody's on high alert, just waiting for dildos to fly.

[Gary Owen]

That's crazy.

[Nyla]

So, yeah, again, Cheryl Reeve, the Minnesota Links head coach, she said they're, they are a problem and it's not funny. She said you need, they need to take action. So, you know, you guys be careful out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And now it's not funny. But it is funny. And it, it's wild how whenever the dildo gets thrown on the court, everybody acts like it's used. Like, people be grabbing towels, nobody wants to touch it with their bare hands. People be kicking it like it's not a used dildo.

[Gary Owen]

We don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't know.

[Nyla]

You don't know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, you don't know what people are doing with these deals before they throw it. Like, you don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is true. Yeah, that is true. Until somebody throw one. Wait till somebody throw one that sticks to the culture. And then the people got to keep jerking it up. That's crazy.

[Nyla]

Switching gears. So President Trump's sweeping slate of global tariffs went into effect overnight. Import taxes will reach levels not seen in the country in almost 100 years, with over 60 countries and the European Union facing rates of 15% or more. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson spoke about the administration's ultimate goal. Let's hear from him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We are trying to rebalance trade in America's favor. We want to bring back the high precision manufacturing jobs. We want to get rid of these big deficits that we have with countries that have created these big surpluses. And the gut at our manufacturing base.

[Nyla]

So a wide variety of products will be hit, ranging from appliances, cars, food and furniture. In a post. In a post on Truth Social, just after things went into effect, Trump said billions of dollars are now flowing into the U.S. that's what he said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Nyla]

Elsewhere, the FBI has agreed to track down a group of Texas Democrats who fled the state in protest of redistricting. The request was made by Senator John Cornyn, who says it's important that this group of rogue Democrats be held accountable, adding, it's important to get these lawmakers home and back to work. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We cannot allow these rogue legislators to avoid their constitutional responsibilities and make a mockery out of Texas. We resolve our differences by debating and voting, not by running away and hiding from our constituents. In addition to avoiding their duty while on a public relations tour, these cowardly legislators are blocking vital flood relief.

[Nyla]

So FBI agents will be assisting state troopers who are ordered or were ordered by the governor to arrest those involved in the quorum break. Now, again, state troopers do not have any jurisdiction in the states that those Dems left to, like Illinois, New York and Boston, or Massachusetts, rather. Civil warrants have been issued. But again, local law enforcement can't make arrests outside of the state. So it's interesting to see how FBI, what role FBI will be playing. It says that they will be assisting state troopers, but it's interesting considering that, you know, FBI, they defeated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Nyla]

But that's your front page news. I'm working wood. You guys can follow me on Socials at morganmedia. And for more news coverage, follow LAC Information Network, download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail] Other than that, have a great weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Happy Friday.

[Gary Owen]

You too now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Morgan. And listen, man, now is the time. Call us 1-800-585-1051. It's the people's donkey. You know, it's Friday. We allow y' all to call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. You can give somebody the biggest hee hawk. Reach out and touch us right now. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.

[Gary Owen]

Yep. And when we come back, Gary Owen will be joining us. We'll talk to him next year. It's a new comedy special, Gary Owen, no s. And we'll talk to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We got A special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, we do.

[Gary Owen]

One of my favorite comedians, ladies and gentlemen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gentlemen.

[Gary Owen]

Why it's not one of ours, I don't know. But one of my favorite comedians, ladies and gentlemen, Gary Owens. Here, ladies, Gary Owens.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's get it. Ratings are about to skyrocket.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I already know what's up, y'. All.

[Gary Owen]

Well, how you feeling? First and foremost?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How's everything?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everything's great. No complaints.

[Gary Owen]

I've been, I've been really watching your clips the last couple of, the last couple of weeks, I've been watching your clips and I just want to say salute to you. I've seen a couple of clips where one guy, which was kind of weird, I thought it was kind of weird. His wife died.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Gary Owen]

And he still went to see Gary Owen. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two days. Two days later.

[Gary Owen]

Two days later, yeah. Because he was supposed to go with his wife and his wife died and he still went, which was surprising, but he went. And Gary, you decided to take care of the funeral?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Course the. Well, they cremated her. I took care of the urn. Then I gave him, I gave him more because he had to take off work for a month, but he didn't. I don't think he had a, a GoFundMe. So he got that. And that got over 14,000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, yeah. But the reason I, it just was kind of spur the moment, but it was more. He didn't ask because then you see the good and the bad side of social media do something like that because I had, my DM's got overrun. Well, since you helped him, help me, can you do this? All he sent me a message was he told me that his wife passed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then when I saw his page, they go to a lot of comedy shows. That was their thing. So they got pictures of all kinds of comedians. And so he's. I'm going to go. Because she wanted. She. We were supposed to go. And so that's why I took care of it, because he didn't ask. He said, man, I don't know if you do meet and greets, but I really get a picture with you. That's all he wanted.

[Gary Owen]

That's all he wanted.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah. I could even tell even when he was asking him, he was stuttering like, I'm not here for this, but thank you. And I wanted to know, you know, because you pick on. I don't want to say pick on, but you will call people out at a show. Have you ever called out somebody and it was wrong? Like, I've done it up here. All the time. But like, so what did your mom think? And they'd be like, my mom's dead head. Like, it's happened a bunch of times. So has that happened to you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You just be like, oh, way to bring the show down. If you had a commentary, you're there to laugh. But that's gonna happen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, I'm not mean like that. People think I'm just doing, like, crowd work. Sometimes I get interrupted. And we're taping it now. So I finally got a full time camera person with me, which I should have did a long time ago.

[Gary Owen]

Oh, that's why I'm seeing so many clips now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, I got the right editor too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I had camera guys, but then I'd be like, why did you stop it there? Now I got. It took trial and error. Now I got the right team. So that's why I think you're seeing me more in the algorithms. And the clips are better.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because they're actually capturing it and they're editing it correctly. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you're. So.

[Gary Owen]

You were always doing it. You just got a team to actually.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Capture it, edit it, and put it together.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Thanks to Nate Jackson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw him here last week.

[Gary Owen]

But also Lorna Rosa that's sitting to the right of you, threw a shot at you. Just, just, just you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I didn't throw.

[Gary Owen]

There was another white comedian here, and I think she was trying to pit two white comedians against each other.

[DJ Envy]

I saw that comedian.

[Gary Owen]

Yes. And she just threw a shot at you for no reason. And we didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's.

[Gary Owen]

Let's listen to the audience don't know what's going on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But they brought up the Kendrick Lamar thing. I listened to it, and all of a sudden the girl that fills in for just hilarious. That was there. When I was there a few months ago. They said, you know, Kendrick has never really said who he's talking about. Andrew's like, how do we even know Kendrick was talking about me now? Envy, Charlemagne and Schultz. Like, we only know who Kendrick was talking about. He could have been talking about Gary Owen. And literally the girl goes, anybody checking for Gary? I tell you, this girl, I. I can't remember her name. I don't know what her issue was with me is. That was a dig.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'd be like, we heard it. What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

How did I catch a strain? Ain't nobody checking for Gary Owen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Baltimore.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Somebody check it for me. I love Nashville this weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody checking for me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it reminded Me. It was like when Tyrese got mad at me because I said. I said a joke. Like, in her mind, I'm not a real celeb.

[Gary Owen]

I'm not a real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She doesn't take me serious. Yeah. She doesn't feel. I bet you in her mind, if she was booking the show, she wouldn't have me on. I bet you in her mind, she goes, no, no, no, no, no. Why are you like that?

[DJ Envy]

First, before we ask me questions, do you know my name now?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. You didn't know it then.

[Lauren LaRosa]

From Delaware. Went to Delaware State.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. People come for me. They act like they don't know my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Name, but I know your name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why throw the shot at my song?

[DJ Envy]

First of all, it wasn't a shot.

[Gary Owen]

What you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, so I have a.

[Gary Owen]

It was a shot.

[DJ Envy]

Can you be quiet?

[Gary Owen]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

I have a tendency to say things, and I don't think much of it. But then I'm realizing that people. It hits people differently because I thought I was saying that during that time, it was very clear what Kendrick Lamar was talking about, because Andrew Schultz, in the conversation that he had was all over the news. And then the Kendrick Lamar stuff happened. So I'll be all over the news.

[Gary Owen]

Gary Owen, don't be all over.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I had a show with Kendrick. Andrew's never worked with Kendrick at the same time.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all know what I'm talking about. Like, it was very clear at the time what was happening. It wasn't a dig at you. It was like a. I thought we all saw the same thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw, like, when you said that was the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Got my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You really don't think.

[DJ Envy]

I think you a celebrity?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I just want content. I want you to react. It's me. I know. I'm me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't take none of this personal. And if I'm doing a rant, I'm like, yeah, they'll probably pick this up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Up. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And sure enough, took that bait.

[DJ Envy]

No, I mean, look.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I saw you in your car. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It helped out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Help both of us out. Now, look, then they're gonna clip this up.

[Gary Owen]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And we're still riding that Kendrick train.

[Gary Owen]

We're still kicking it with Gary Owen. Now, Gary, it seems like you have a problem with black women. First it was Lauren, then to the left of you. You and Jess. Hilarious. Went back and forth because.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Gary Owen]

I ain't never say nothing to this. And I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I don't know why this white.

[Gary Owen]

Man decided to attack me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's Listen me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, Jess, hilarious. Went to Detroit, did the Mike Mike eps comedy club, which Mike Epps had nothing to do with it. I think his name is on it, but I guess just wasn't run well the weekend she was there. But she goes on the Breast Club and she goes, you know, they told me Damon Wayans is going to be on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get there as Damon Williams.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know no damn Damon Williams. And I'm going, jess, everybody knows Damon Williams in the comedy world. Everybody, everybody. I don't know why she took that moment to dig on Damon. I hope Jess issues an apology to Damon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

For kind of discrediting him. Like, I don't know no damn Damon Williams. Every comic knows Damon Williams out of Chicago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm from Baltimore.

[Gary Owen]

I ain't from no damn Chicago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know damn Williams? Yeah, I do now.

[Gary Owen]

I know who he is now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's a good dude.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, I. Yeah, obviously. But I met him one time backstage, right. He was on the same show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I meet so many people I'm on shows with.

[Gary Owen]

You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I think it was the damn.

[Gary Owen]

I knew.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it was the damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You said, I don't know damn Williams. I don't know no damn Damon Williams.

[Gary Owen]

She was more taking her frustration out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the nightclub, and it was just more so.

[Gary Owen]

And it was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You weren't the only one. It was.

[Gary Owen]

It was a lot of people. I think he called and asked to make videos to say, like, yo, come on, shorty. Ruining my credibility. I'm valid. I'm in these streets. I've been, like, a pioneer in this. Can y' all please let her know who I am?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it was. It was you amongst other, you know.

[Gary Owen]

OG comics that made the video and said it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm like, yo, I really did.

[Gary Owen]

Not know who he was until pictures were posted. A couple pictures were posted from one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Night at a club. We were on D Ray show. Shout out to D Ray.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was the New Year's Eve stuff, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Gary Owen]

And I did. I swear, I meet so many people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I just did not remember, oh, that's Damon Williams. Okay, cool. Even still only met him one time now.

[Gary Owen]

My bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, like, I'm not gonna say sorry.

[Gary Owen]

Because I didn't know who he was by name. And every comic does not know Damian Williams. Every comic does not know me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every comic don't even know your ass. Shocking. Every comic. Everybody don't know everybody.

[Gary Owen]

Now, you know some people just like, duh, we know who that is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Gary Owen]

But it's like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I. I did not know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, he ran with it, and like I said, it's all content.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did. I didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't say, huh?

[DJ Envy]

Did he?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

On myself. I like.

[Gary Owen]

So you just jumped in the beef? You didn't even. He didn't even call your ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen, I'm very. Listen, I'm very, very strategic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't see me calling them out their name. You don't see me saying they should get fired. You don't see me saying they're not good at their job.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't ever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm like, anybody check for Gary Owen? You know who damn Damon Williams is? And then I just keep it moving. I'm like, they're gonna respond. I literally go to my phone, be like, oh, yeah, Lauren did it. When I go on, Jess is gonna bring this up.

[Gary Owen]

You know what's crazy? When you did that, when you posted the video, somebody was like, why tell me from power gonna make a video talking about.

[DJ Envy]

Probably don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Damn. Damn.

[Gary Owen]

But I was like, you know, that's Gary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. So boom. Yeah. See, now we're talking about, oh, damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You gonna get the smoke. I'm the most respectful, like, beef person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like her, Lauren. She's good at her job.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't say that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did.

[Gary Owen]

He said you take the hip hop very serious.

[DJ Envy]

That was a dish. You didn't say I was good at my job. You said, I take my hip hop very seriously. Like, that was like a.

[Gary Owen]

He said, you know your name.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was on purpose.

[DJ Envy]

But if you think I'm good at my job, you could say, now, are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You good at your job?

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think you add something to the show. You know what I mean? It's good to have a little antagonist every now and then.

[DJ Envy]

But what does that do for you, though, at where you are? Because, like, wow. For me, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Wow. It's fun.

[DJ Envy]

No, where you are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can we have fun in this?

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm just saying where you are. Meaning? So when I. When you said I didn't think you were a celebrity, I was like, what? I've been watching you. My household has been watching you forever. I do think you're a celebrity. I'm saying where you are. As if, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, you.

[DJ Envy]

You're at a point where, like, that type of trolling. Do you need to do that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't think it was trolling. I like the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

So I chime in, you know, you're saying commentating.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Commentating, but same thing you're doing.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but my. I feel like my comment, like you're. You're here saying those weren't your true feelings. If I say something, that's really how I feel.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, we're different.

[Gary Owen]

Gary's fake.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I'm completely fake on the Internet.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I did one of my specials is literally called Hashtag doing what I do. Because I go, I'm lying if I do that. Hashtag, I'm lying. I'm taking pictures in front of yachts. I wasn't on the yacht. I was lying.

[Gary Owen]

You know, so that's what Bow Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got all that fake from.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, probably me.

[DJ Envy]

Did you go about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's where I got it from. I go for the best. When he was on Private Plane and go, that's a good idea. Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

So you got your comedy special, Gary Owen. We got the one on Netflix.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no. You know, that's a lie.

[DJ Envy]

You guys do a video about Instagram. You ain't on Netflix yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That. But yo, so do you.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does it really grind your gaze when people call you?

[Gary Owen]

Grind your. Yeah, I mean, he's one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When people say Gary Owens, is that a thing? Not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't think the public, but I think when a promoter hires me and you put on the flyer, I'm like, dude, you put the wrong name on the flyer. The funny, like, it just happened last week. They did some promo video about some city I'm coming to, and it was Gary Owens. I go, bro. And he's like, why aren't you reposting it? I go, because you got the name wrong. They don't do it to nobody else. You don't see Bruce? Bruce's.

[Gary Owen]

No, just you and Joe Buttons.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Earthquakes. Just you and Joe Buttons. Just hilarious.

[Gary Owen]

No DJ envies. The only ones that do it. Now, you know, on a serious note, you are funny. You sell out shows all the time. You sell out specials all the time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

What did you do to an executive at Netflix? Did you bang somebody's wife? Did you bang somebody's man? Like, what did you do where they are not reaching out to you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know.

[Gary Owen]

It's ridiculous. Now, come on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know, I. But you know what? It's been. People think, like, I got all this. These special. All these networks. Nah, it was. BT had a good relationship with them when they were doing comedy. And then Showtime, I had a good relationship with them. So Showtime stopped doing comedy specials. So it pretty much. There's three buyers right now. Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I don't know. Do you ask me? I don't know.

[Gary Owen]

You see comedians getting specials that you feel like. Like, he's not better than me, he's not better than me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think we all think we're better than everybody else. If we're being honest. We're like, but I would. I'm not ever bitter towards another guy getting a Netflix special. I'm like, yeah, that's fine. Because I'm doing fine. Like, I'm selling out everywhere in advance. You know what I mean? So I'm. YouTube's a. I finally figured. Figured it out with YouTube, I said, who was the highest paid people on TV? It was judges and it was daytime talk show hosts. And I was like, why? Because they're on every day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Correct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why. You knew Jerry Springer. Jerry Springer was on once a week. He wouldn't have been. So I go, I gotta post a clip every day. I have to take over people's phones and I have to post good clips. Once I figured that out, I go, it just went. And this is all in the last like three months.

[Gary Owen]

And I can tell it just went.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because even my guy Adam, who's. He's like, slash opener and he's also my web guy. It was the best DM I ever answered. This guy DM me like 2 years ago and said, hey, I'm just starting out doing stand up. You know, I've been watching you forever. And I said, I looked at his page.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who does your clips?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He goes, I do it myself. I said, you can come down to a guest spot. He's at the West Palm Beach Improv. I go, if you film me and let me see how the clips look me. And it's been seamless ever since. Took a while for me to bring him on, like full time, but now.

[Gary Owen]

But you just hired him for the clips. Is he actually.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he's very funny and he takes the craft serious. Like, even when he's not with me, he's on stage every night. He's open mic and he's. I'm like, dude, you're on stage again. So he takes the craft serious. And I love the way he edits me and just. It's just. It's seamless. So I. I'll even call him like that. That clip wasn't funny. Take down everybody or it's too short or, you know, but we work. We were good together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's what.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what's happened over the last, like, three months? We finally was, like. We made a decision. Every day we gotta post a clip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

You know, it's work, because I. I could tell the difference.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

So he's a comedian.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's a comedian named Adam Fink, and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He is a videographer. And he does.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He came from, like, doing rap videos. He was, like, working with Big Sean and some other people. And so working with me is great. He goes, dude, there's less weed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He goes, I'm getting paid on time. No offense. I got paid, but I have to ask, right? You know what I mean? Get my money. The video's over. The song's number two.

[Gary Owen]

I was still kicking it with Gary, always. So you had a crazy divorce and it's finally over. You moved on and everything is good. So you've been. You spoke about your relationship with your kids. Has that gotten any better at all?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Son got right after I left here last time, son got a hold of me. So now we're good. He was just in Vegas with me last two weeks ago.

[Gary Owen]

How did y' all make that?

[DJ Envy]

You saw the interview?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He didn't see the interview.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He. He.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He had an issue at his job, and he. He needed my help, needed my advice. So he. He just called out of left field. It was funny because Adam, I open, we're in Philly, and he. He matched with this girl on Tinder. And he goes, yo, I got a feeling this girl's trying to catfish me. Can you go to the bar with me just to play wingman?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I go, all right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we're walking to the bar, and my phone rings. It's my son. I looked up. I go, my son's calling me. And he looked at. I go, my son ain't call me, like, three years. So I picked up. I said, good luck with your Tinder date. I hope she's legit. But I'm out. So we talk for, like, three, four hours at night, and then, yeah, we're. We're as close as ever now. It just took. Took time. Daughter is still. Still nothing, but she's. She's gonna be a tough one to crack.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Have you attempted to reach out to your daughter since always?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I always do. But, you know, I don't have. I don't have any. I don't have a way to contact her. She's not on social media. She got a new cell phone, so I have. I have no way other than an email.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, she's told her brother not to give you her number?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a little different than that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll keep that between them. I'll keep that between them. I don't want everything to be on the Breakfast Club.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, but that's good. But I was. What was that initial conversation like? Was it, like, with my son?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

Was it natural? Was it like, hey, how's it going? It was like, hey, dad, we haven't spoken. Let's speak. Like, how was that. That conversation after three years? Because it's still your son.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

But, you know, you still got a place for y'.

[Morgan]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. The first thing he said was, dude, I know we got a lot to work on, and I know we'll get to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I really need your help with this problem right now. So I went into immediate, like, dad mode. Like, all right, that's what we got to do. And then it just so happened I was gonna be in the Bay Area, like, two weeks later, and that's where he lives. So the phone call happens two weeks later. We got to reconnect. And then. And then he ended up flying back to Houston with me. I said, you wanna. You wanna fly back Monday when I fly back back? He goes, yeah, because, you know, I got the twins, so we got to meet the twins. And then everything's good. Now he's got it. You know, he's got his favorite already.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, Be honest.

[Gary Owen]

When you first seen that number, did you think it was a money call? Like, you know, like. Because, you know, when your kids call, it's either they're in problem or they need some money.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, no, he has no problem asking for money.

[Gary Owen]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, that's not an issue with him. Let me tell you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like this. Oh, you're making up for that three years.

[Gary Owen]

So it wasn't a money call. It was. I need some advice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was. No, that wasn't a money call. There's been money calls since. That's natural.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Did you have a moment where you, like. Because last time you were here, you talked about it. There was. It was a bit emotional for you. Ish. Did you have a moment where you, like, were like, oh, okay. Like, I finally got to the point where me and my son are reconnecting. You were able to, like, take it in and, like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, I was, like. I was able to, like, be honest with him about the divorce. It had nothing to do with you. That's between me and your mom. Because I think he. I think it made my daughter feels that way, too. I think they probably think they had something to do with it. And I was like, dude, it had nothing to do with you. Nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, yeah, you got you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You kind of replay the. The years lost in your brain. But then where we're at now, you know, we're good. Yeah. I didn't miss a wedding. I didn't miss, like, him having kids or anything like that. So I think that would be. That would be tough. Like, if my daughter ever. When she does get married, my God, I hope we're. We're back in touch by then. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

Walk her down the aisle.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, all that.

[DJ Envy]

Do you change how you do your jokes now? Because, like, I mean, from this point on, because your son's watching and you know all the things, and you had jokes about the divorce and all that stuff. Did y' all talk about that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nah, he's. He's got a dark sense of humor, like I do, so he was good with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old was your son?

[Lauren LaRosa]

24.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's an adult now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now he's good. He'd be cracking up, and then, you know, it's funny because now he's kind of hanging out at the comedy club up there in the Bay Area, because I. When I did the show, I brought him up there, and everybody knew him from back in the day. We used to come around. So now he's. He's kind of hanging out there a lot, so he's meeting a lot of the comedians. So it's been good, because I think I've been cool with most comedians, unlike Jess, you know, with Damon.

[Gary Owen]

Well, Gary's gonna be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, at one point.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's already sold out.

[Morgan]

Out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's already sold out. Oh, we added Sunday. It's sold out. Oh, you want to talk about Atlanta next week? Sold out. We did add a show. We did add a show Sunday in Atlanta, and then in two weeks, I got 11 shows in D.C. they're sold out.

[Gary Owen]

I know that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Girl.

[Gary Owen]

What you say?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, wait a minute. I'm in. I'm in Virginia beach in October.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sold out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

October, sold out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You better tell.

[DJ Envy]

I know you're not going on them. Sold out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

No more divorce jokes. Because it came up in court. Mediation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, I know. With that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With the thing. It came up. Mediation.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna let you rock. So you sold out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was funny, though. I can't even lie. That was a good one. I never even, like, the same thing. If I'm talking about Jess, we're talking about Lauren. It's all content. Even in the divorce, I was like. Even with the mediation, it was content. Like, I was acting like I was serious. I was like, that's kind of funny. You know what I mean? You got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just. And it's like, I know the lawyers don't even know when to take you serious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is what I learned. This is the biggest thing I learned. I hope anybody's getting a divorce. Listen, and you hear it all the time. Get to a point where you're cordial with your ex, and you guys decide what you want to do. That's fair to everybody. Because this is when I knew these lawyers are playing us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We were held up for a couple weeks over life insurance insurance. She wanted to take out, like. Like a. I think it was like a 5 million life insurance policy. On me, right?

[Gary Owen]

On you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, on me in case I passed away. So she's good, right? Yeah. But she's got to pay the premium. I'm not paying it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My lawyer went back and forth to her lawyer over, that's too much for life insurance. I said, I'm dead. I don't care what it is. She's paying for it. I don't care what my policy is. They go, well, I don't think the. The life insurance should be bigger than the divorce settlement. I go, who cares?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When I realized I'm getting the bill, like, okay, why am I getting charged? Every email over the. I said, it's done. Give it to her. I'm done. And then when I finally. We finally get to a point where you're like that, I go, this is so pointless. They will literally find one thing to keep it going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that kept it going for a couple weeks. The dang. If I'm dead, how much does she get?

[Gary Owen]

And you know, I don't care.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not paying the problem.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All I can do is get a physical.

[Gary Owen]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they just.

[Gary Owen]

Getting your money, taking more money just to prolong it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I finally told her. I was like. I finally got to a point. Point where I called her. I said, look, we just got to get this over with. Trust me on this. I said, yeah, I wasn't the best with fidelity, but I never did you wrong financially. You know what I mean? So say you should feel like, all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right, yeah, yeah, y' all called you right. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Every now and then, it'll creep back up like, whoa, you really still mad?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up? How you doing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're really still upset?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. You really still. I think the.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, when I had the twins, I randomly saw her at an airport.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Airport.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I. I said, hey, you know I had twins. She goes, yeah. And I go, well, do you want to see them? She goes, no. I said, I know you do. So I showed her the twins, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So the fun.

[DJ Envy]

She thought it was fun.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know him by now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So anyways, she goes, there's this white arm and there's this white leg in the side of the picture. She goes, who's that? I go, the nanny. She have a nanny? You have a nanny? We have a nanny. I go, well, you met me at the wrong time. If you was with me now, you would have a nanny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a Gary, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

I would have threw my drink at you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why?

[Gary Owen]

It's funny, Laura.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When you get divorced, you'll know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gentlemen, I'm glad.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm glad we're friends again. Lauren LaRosa from Delaware. Delaware State.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boom.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just know, if I ever say anything, I don't mean it. I don't at all say anything. Anybody checking for me? I worry about you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You should have called the Lauren Larosas.

[Lauren LaRosa]

From TMZ's Delaware States.

[Gary Owen]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne. The guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Up.

[Gary Owen]

Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fat. She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some Details.

[DJ Envy]

I'm the home girl that knows a.

[Nyla]

Little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

All righty. So we've been talking about beautiful BET and them suspending the Hip Hop Awards and the Soul Train Awards. So Fat Joe has his show, Joe and Jada with Jadakiss. And, you know, he's hosted the awards for bet. He's done it three years in a row. So he commented on what he thinks is actually going on over there and why this happened. Let's take a listen to Fat Joe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bet.

[Gary Owen]

This is a form of gentrification. What's going on right now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So BET came up as a community.

[Gary Owen]

Station for black people. Bob Johnson took the check.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He sold it.

[Gary Owen]

First black billionaire, whatever the case may be. He sold it. He sold it to Viacom, Paramount. Little by little over the years, quietly, they've been firing a lot of people behind the scenes in bet. And everybody who has something to say, they've been firing them and this and this and that. The budget, not for me, but the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Budget just kept getting.

[Gary Owen]

Just getting chopped and chopped and chopped. And last year, I debuted my single.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With Khaled in the VMAs and Katy Perry still flying through the air.

[Gary Owen]

They still blowing out cannons. They still got the budgets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so in the entertainment world, this was like a form of gentrification. They kept underfunded them, and you ain't got no money to be creative.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So that's his take on it. Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, Joe makes some great points. I mean, the budget kept getting smaller and smaller because the way people was consuming content was different. And I don't know if BET adjusted fast enough. And, you know, when you don't adjust fast enough and people start going to other places for content, then your viewing audience gets smaller. So then when you want to start doing. When you. When you want to do those big award shows like the BET Hip Hop Awards and the Soul Train Awards and everything else, the viewing audience ain't there. The sponsorship money ain't there. And so now you don't have either one.

[Gary Owen]

Well, that's. That's the main reason, I'm sure, like, the budgets get smaller because there's no sponsorship dollars, because people are not watching it. So if they. If they can't pay for it, they're not gonna give those big budgets like before.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, simple as that. And Fat Joe Said says, honestly, I know that they're saying, you know, the BET Awards are going to be fine. And even though the ratings and all the things. But Fat Joe says if there's one misstep with the BET Awards, that could be next too. Because if that is happening, it's happening across the board. BET doesn't have room to slip. Unfortunately, they don't. So, you know, he's just putting that out there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One. One misstep is simply one big sponsor, Literally one big sponsor saying we not interested this year, literally. And that. And that'll be it.

[DJ Envy]

It 100. Well, speaking of live shows or lack thereof, yesterday Diddy's team talked about him wanting to do something at MSG when he comes home, whenever that is. Well, man, they are butchering Diddy's weight to sit and send because now they went and did press following that to try and clean it up and clarify what they meant or didn't mean. Let's take a listen to Mark Agnifolo, Diddy's attorney on Madison Square Garden.

[Lauren LaRosa]

While he did say to me that he hopes one day his fortune would take him maybe back to Madison Square Garden, I think that is, if ever.

[Gary Owen]

Years down the road, and that is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not in his immediate conception. That is something, quite frankly, I hope for him. He's working very hard in jail. I think he is spending a lot of time thinking about aspects of himself that caused him to be there. I think he's someone who's very conscious of the fact that he has these.

[Gary Owen]

These, you know, tremendous blessings in his.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Life, but he also has imperfections, as we all do. And I think he's really spent a lot of time thinking about that. And. And, you know, the word that I used and, you know, been using and I want to use it now is redemption. And redemption is earned.

[Gary Owen]

Redemption is not given.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I think he has done the hard work to earn redemption.

[Gary Owen]

If I'm Diddy, I'm just like, shut up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

I'm like, there's no reason to talk. I haven't got sentences yet. You shouldn't be doing interviews. Don't talk about me being in Madison Square Garden. The Apollo at the fried chicken spot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't talk about nothing.

[Gary Owen]

Just say, hey, we'll see when he gets sentenced. Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Like, ah, yeah. Well, in addition to that, remember there was a conversation that Nicole Westmoreland, he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Screamed like he was at a freak off just now. Like, why'd you scream like that, bro? Like, what was that?

[Gary Owen]

It's just frustrating. And like, you talk and you sound horrible. And then you try to talk again to fix yourself from the horrible thing that makes it worse, and you make it worse.

[DJ Envy]

It's just like, oh, well, the, the pardon conversation is looking pretty crazy, too, because now Nicole Westmoreland, who said that they were having conversations with Trump, had to go back and clarify what she meant as well on the same day that Mark did. Let's take a listen to Nicole.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I saw you on CNN yesterday saying that there had been conversations with the Trump administration. Are you able to say who those conversations were with?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, I'm not in the weeds on that to that extent. I'm part of the trial team. And right now we're laser focused on preparing for October 3rd.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But he did make a point of saying that he was aware that despite their previous friendship, that Sean Combs had said some pretty negative things about Trump. You know, if you're Donald Trump, why, if you reread those comments, should you contemplate a potential pardon?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you are. You want to do what's right and what's fair, and you're not going to let anything cloud those decision makings.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I would say from your response that you are quite hopeful that he will get pardoned by Donald Trump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think being pardoned would be the right thing to do. So we're hopeful.

[DJ Envy]

Completely different. It really makes them look crazy. I don't know what's happening over there, but, man, it ain't looking good with somebody whatsoever right now at all. Yes. Well, in other news. In other live show news. So Offset was on Carmelo Anthony Show, 7pm in Brooklyn, and he talked about a plethora of things. So they did talk about that BET Awards reunion that we saw him and Quavo do in honor of Takeoff. Uh, but first he talked about the group itself and the fact that he never wanted the group to even break up. Let's take a listen to the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That. What was your 7pm moment? Going solo. That was the. That was the. The big fork. Because it was like, I just wanted more for myself as an artist. You know what I mean? One never on no. Like, I feel like I'm better or bigger than none of that. It's just I wanted more for myself as an artist, and I felt like the business of that corporation, of that situation wasn't allowing it to be a better situation, business wise and, like, I got kids and, like, and a lot of cats. We trying to get that done when it's too late. Right. You feel me? Like the business, business wise and, like, I got kids and like. And a lot of cats, we trying to get that done. When it's too late, it doubled.

[DJ Envy]

But yeah. So basically when all that happened, I don't know if you guys remember when it was not even announced, but when we started seeing the. The Migos kind of break apart and uh, take off in Quavo where doing interviews and Offset was out of it, it made it seem like, you know, Offset was the issue and that's why they weren't continuing. So I, I thought that it was such a good thing to hear him say, like he wanted it to continue. It was just a business thing. And I don't think people really understood that at the time. Now he also sat down and talked about as we close. I know we're wrapping up now. He talked about the loss of takeoff. And we saw Quavo and Offset reunite at the BET Awards back in 2023 to honor him. And he talked about, you know, just dealing with that and how hard it's been. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I brought it, man. We took the biggest loss forever. And like, people don't understand like personally losing a bro. Yeah. Don't want to continue that. Like it doesn't. It ain't the same juice, bro. It ain't the. Even if it could be bigger than ever just because of that happened, a lot of ride wave off of bad situations and like. Cause it'll be bigger after because you know how people. People. They give people flowers when bad happen like that. Especially hip hop. That. Like that. Like it's like it's deeper. It's like your brother sleeping in one house with your mom and your daddy and goddamn now y' all just wake up and it ain't the brother in the house no more. Yeah. It don't feel the same. So it didn't even. So once that happened and it was definitely like. Oh, like that was a. Another. That was another 7pm moment. Like cuz I can imagine I was about to drop an album and. And that happened and I just. The album. I ain't want to do music.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So he got. He got pretty candid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I totally understand what he's saying. Like, like Takeoff passed away. Like he's no longer here. He. He died. Like the fact people wanted. Wanted them to just keep it moving like nothing happened was ridiculous. Like your. Your whole world stops. Forget the professional aspect. Just personally as a human, like, you know how traumatic that is.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And you know, and obviously it's something that he's going to be dealing with every single day. But I think people don't look at at, you know, these celebrities and these superstars as people. So this interview was really good because he got super candid with with the guys over there. And the album that he was talking about is Kiari, which he is coming out with on August 22nd. So, you know, he's back, and he's trying to do the things to push the album and get out there.

[Gary Owen]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, salute to 7:00pm in Brooklyn. Drop on the clues bars from 7:00pm in Brooklyn. My guy, Cass Mero, Carmelo Anthony, Phenomenal joke job over there.

[Gary Owen]

That's right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren. And you know what, guys? Lauren has been lying to us because she's in Atlanta, and she said she was in Atlanta doing some pod podcasting today.

[DJ Envy]

I'll be there today. The podcast festival, singing at 12:45.

[Gary Owen]

Sheen had a grand opening yesterday. And I heard you were at the Sheen grand opening grabbing all those clothes. Yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

I was not. And I don't need to go to the grand opening of Sheen. I just order it online because it closed me, like, $3.

[Gary Owen]

Whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sheen opened the store.

[Gary Owen]

They said there was, like, 10,000 people out there trying to buy clothes and wigs and things like that from Sheen.

[DJ Envy]

First of all, I didn't even get here till, like, midnight Donkey today.

[Gary Owen]

Who you give me a donkey to, sir?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you know, Sheen got the density Brazilian virgin body wave wig with the bangs for 34.70, too. It's a 47 off sale as well, so I'm sure she scooped up some of those. But today is the people's donkey. You know what I'm saying? Today. Today is the people's donkey. You know, you can call in 1-800-585-1051 and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid.

[Gary Owen]

That's right. 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your mornings will never be the same.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember now, that is how they choose.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Call in now, 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the Day for Friday, August 9th is the People's donkey. This is where we allow people to call in and give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid. Whoever you want to give the biggest hee haw to, you can do that right now. So good morning. Who's this?

[Morgan]

Aisha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Aisha.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you want to give the biggest hee haw to this morning?

[Morgan]

Oh, hey, good morning. Y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, Uncle Charlotte.

[Morgan]

Hey, DJ Envy. Hey, Jesse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, girl.

[Morgan]

But I want to give Dunkin Dix my job. I work for the Department of Public Safety.

[DJ Envy]

I did have a contract.

[Morgan]

Asked for the renew my contract, but they didn't tell anybody that our contract was in it, and there was no position to come back to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, who's the company?

[Morgan]

The state of North Carolina.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, the whole state of North Carolina. Oh. Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

I work for the state.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you, got you. So you, so you. So you out of work right now.

[Morgan]

Basically, I would become October 1st, and it was very last minute, and they definitely did not even take into consideration to allow us to find something within a time frame. So it's just like. Yeah, now I'm back to the drawing board. I'm applying for jobs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you about to be one of those numbers in that unemployment statistic that Donald Trump says isn't true.

[Morgan]

And the crazy thing is, I actually just graduated school for criminal justice, So, I mean, I guess it's a good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thing, but at the same time, it's.

[Morgan]

Just like the job was, you know, for my degree.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, yeah, just. It's just. It's just a temporary. Temporary setback, that's all. Nothing permanent, I'm sure.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I know that. But they still deserve donkeys. I wish I could say their name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I wouldn't do that.

[Morgan]

But, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Thank you for calling. Good morning. Who's this? I know this Hundo. Hundo. Who do you want to give the biggest he heart to? I want to get the biggest he out of Clarissa Shields. Damn. Okay. She's running for she, she, she, she running from my homie Shades of sweet green. She know that she talking about she want to fight Auntie. She getting married. She want kids, man. Come on. Stop running, shorty. You think she running from sh. Now, we don't know Clarissa to run now. Shede is dope, though. Salute to Shada Patterson, New Jersey. But you think she. I don't think she running from Sha. Hey, man, look on Twitter, Axel. Y' all got the waves. Axel, what's up?

[Gary Owen]

But isn't you calling Lea Ali auntie?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, that is funny. That is funny. Yo, Lauren just said that to me. That is funny. Well, I'm sure Clarissa is gonna hear this, so good morning. What's going on? This Big South. Big South F A L C like a falcon, but a foul. Oh, big falcon. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. You about to say something else. See, I already know that y' all wrong. I want to give Donkey on the dates to the straight man. The straight man is always in the comments under our videos, hating. What is that about you straggling. I don't even understand. Wait a minute. I made a bunch of songs for y'.

[Morgan]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened? You're gay. Oh, yeah. I'm big gay. What's going on? Okay, but you just jumped in there, straight man. We gotta. I'm using context clues, but, you know, I need to piece this together. So. You're a gay man. Don't. Don't piece it together. I got the whole map, like, right here. Oh, is gay over this way. So, like I said, I got a bunch of songs for you straight dudes. Make sure y' all listen to Future Style everywhere. He got a bunch of songs for you strikers. Just to let y' all know on a Friday. What do you keep calling them? Straggits? Straggits. Yeah. Yeah, I'm taking it back. That's crazy. Big Fish Falcon, what's the name of your album? Big Foul or your project? The name of my project is dude in the Durag. I'm always wearing a durag. And I'm always talking my. I don't know if I can cuss on this mug. You can. You said booty and durags.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said booty. I love me some booty. But I said dude in the durag. Come on now. You know what's up. Oh, dude in the durag. Okay, okay, okay. Dude in the durag. Dude in the booty. Dude in the durag. But we go either way. Way. Any other time. Charlemagne speak gay now. He'll know.

[Gary Owen]

He understand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know now. He don't know. He always te. I listen every morning. I be hearing you, period. I just can't really now, Big Falk, that's all. What's t. I love y'.

[Morgan]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Big Falk. We love you. We gonna check your music out, period. Thank you for calling, brother. Good morning. Who's this? Yo, this is Calvin. How to do well, Jacksonville, Florida. Calvin. What's happening, brother? Who you want to get a biggest he haul to?

[Gary Owen]

Every last one of you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of y', all, good morning. Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, dj. Good morning, Jess. Good morning. Good morning. I'm giving all of y' all junk here today. Okay, okay. Every last one. What we do? Damn. Tuesday. Who was late? Who was late Tuesday? Who was late Tuesday? Everybody. All y' all were late. Damn. I was not late Tuesday. I was not late Tuesday. I was here Tuesday.

[Gary Owen]

I think it was your Phone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I opened the show. No, okay, one. I mean, one time this week, all of y' all were late. Okay, that's not true. I opened the show. Oh, no, no, you're right. But I was sitting here, I was just trying to give envy a little bit of time, and then I went up. I went up anyway. Yes, that is true. What are your proof? That wasn't Tuesday, though. What are your proof? My time card is my proof. Hey, man, you ain't no supervisor. Leave me alone.

[Gary Owen]

Writing us up, man. My time card is my proof.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, yo. Yeah, What? Your proof? I'm not explaining myself to you. Crazy. What else you got, man? That's it. No, that's it, man. I appreciate y', all, man. All right. Get to your job on time. Okay. All right, now listen. Guess what else we got? You know, I tell y' all all the time to call in to give people the biggest he haw, but we also got the Talk Back feature. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can can go to the Breakfast Club, click the talkback feature, and leave a message on the Talk Back. So we got one of the talkbacks right now. Let me hear it. Rhett.

[Gary Owen]

Morning, Breakfast Club. I think Donkey of the Day goes to the T app. That is so called exposing people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's doing more harm than.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good as of now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, yeah, Donkey of the Day goes to the tf. Whoever that was clearly got exposed on the TF app. Whoever that was clearly got their spot blowing up on the T app, and they are over it. Okay? They are disgusted by the T app, but that's all we got for today. Every Friday, we do the people's Donkey. You can call in 1-800-585-1051. Give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. Or you can go on the iHeartRadio app, click the Talkback feature on Breakfast Club, and leave a message as well.

[Gary Owen]

All right. Thank you, Charlemagne. Now, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Now, Gary Owen just joined us a couple of minutes ago, and he was talking about how he leveled up on his ex. Now, this is what he said.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When I had the twins, I randomly saw her at an airport, and I said, hey, you know I had twins. She goes, yeah. And I go, well, do you want to see them? She goes, no. I said, I know you do. So I showed her the twins, Right? So the twins.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, he did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's fun.

[DJ Envy]

It's not fun. She thought it was fun.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So anyways, she goes, there's this white arm and there's this white leg in the side of the picture. She goes, who's that? I go, the nanny. She goes, you have a nanny? You have a nanny? We didn't have a nanny. I go, well, you met me at the wrong time. If you was with me now, you would have a nanny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a.

[Gary Owen]

So. 800-585-1051. Have you ever leveled up on an ex or has an ex ever leveled up on you? Now we'll get to Jess, I know know Lauren has nothing to talk about with this one.

[DJ Envy]

But what I got exes that ain't never leveled or nothing in their life when I left. What you saying?

[Gary Owen]

Crickets. 800-585-1051 has an X leveled up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here we go. I'm not saying I'mma mind my business.

[DJ Envy]

No, mind my business. Say it.

[Gary Owen]

Nope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no.

[Gary Owen]

We'll do what we come to back. Crickets. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Pull out your phone, Call in right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Add your opinion to the Breakfast Club topic.

[Gary Owen]

Break it down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

800-585-1051.

[Gary Owen]

The Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's topic time.

[Gary Owen]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

With the Breakfast Club.

[Gary Owen]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about leveling up. Now, this conversation comes from Gary Owen, who was just here, talked about the time he ran into his ex wife at the airport.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When I had the twins, I randomly saw her at the airport. And I. I said, hey, you know, I. I had twins. She goes, yeah. And I go, well, do you want to see them? She goes, no. I said, I know you do. So I showed her the twins, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So the. The.

[DJ Envy]

Not fun. She thought it was fun.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So anyways, she goes, there's this white arm and there's this white leg in the side of the picture. She goes, who's that? I go, the nanny. She goes, she have a nanny? You have a nanny? We have a nanny. I go, well, you met me at the wrong time. You would have a nanny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a very old.

[DJ Envy]

Ladies and gentlemen, I would have threw my drink at you.

[Gary Owen]

So we're asking 800-585-1051, have you. Has an ex ever leveled up on you or you leveled up on an ex like that? Let's start with you, Jeff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have I ever leveled up on an Ex. I mean, duh, like, what. What are we talking about?

[Gary Owen]

But has an ex ever leveled up on me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. You know, the craziest thing is I.

[Gary Owen]

Never really focused on that because once you move on, you're done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Gary Owen]

You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then I don't really have exes. The only ex I keep in touch with is Jerome, my son's father. So I don't really keep up or.

[Gary Owen]

Keep in touch with any of my exes at all. Now, Lauren, how many exes leveled up on you?

[DJ Envy]

Leveled up on me? Out of the little bit of X's I have zero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who is going, by the way? Who's. Who's going to admit to this? Nobody's gonna be like, yeah, he left better.

[DJ Envy]

If I had an ex that, I mean, I'm. They're doing. God bless them. They're great people and they're doing well. But if I had an ex that I felt like, man, I missed that. Or he's doing great. Woo, you look crazy. I would say it. I don't feel like that. No, I wouldn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because no matter. Because no matter. No, because no matter what the person does, like, say if the person got more money than the, The. The. The person that you just left, the ex going, say something negative about their personality. Are they not a good person? Like, like they. They're gonna find a flaw in whoever you move on to. Ain't nobody gonna be like, yeah, man, she did better.

[DJ Envy]

If you in a good place, if you're in a good place about where you are now, you don't have. You don't lean back on the hurt. I went through so much with my ex and I still say he's a great person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

To somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't talking about you. I'm talking about the ex. This is about to level up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm talking about the person you left. The person you left ain't gonna be like, yeah, she doing better with. The person she with is better than me.

[Gary Owen]

Baby.

[DJ Envy]

He know. He talking now.

[Gary Owen]

Well, we got right here. Hello? Yes, Ramir. Now, you said your ex leveled up on you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no, no. I leveled up.

[Gary Owen]

Oh, oh, of course. So what happened then?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He talking about, of course. No, when I was with her, she used to always be like, oh, why I gotta do women duties and cleaning and all that and go, you know, half, or spend some money on bills. She used to be like, find somebody that'll do that and then get Back to me. And then when I broke up with her, I found somebody that looked better in the air Keeper. Better. Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Did you get back to it?

[Morgan]

Her?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did I get back to her? Yeah. Hell yeah. Absolutely. What you say? Found her. Found her and sent the picture there.

[Gary Owen]

For funny as hell, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[Gary Owen]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Morgan]

I'm doing.

[Gary Owen]

Well, what's your name?

[Morgan]

My name is Ivy. I'm calling from Virginia beach now.

[Gary Owen]

Your ex leveled up on you?

[Morgan]

No, I leveled up on my ex, so.

[DJ Envy]

I know that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened?

[Morgan]

What happened was we were involved in a. A drunk driver accident. But we ended up breaking up before the court date. So at the court date, I pulled up in a bins and he didn't have no car and I asked him for a ride and he was like, yeah. And I drove off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cass, you a question? Why'd y' all break up before the court date? Cause you can't snitch on your boyfriend. Because I know you went in there and told what happened. I know you told him he was drunk and he was driving.

[Morgan]

No, he. He cheated on me. And I. He didn't think that I found out, but I found out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Out. Damn. Okay, well, you doing better. And. And. But did you tell on him in court though?

[Morgan]

No, we were. We were on the same side in court, cuz somebody hit us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

She got hit, she got cheated on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now you hung up on her. That's exactly how envy was treating Gary Owen, rushing him out the studio. Why you be doing that to people, man? I don't.

[Gary Owen]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hi.

[Morgan]

Good morning. This is Amanda.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Us.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just like they've always been. Because like a good neighbor State forum is there. Find out [e-mail] Now, Amanda, in the.

[Gary Owen]

Notes, it says you leveled up on your Indian man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Morgan]

I don't know. That's funny. But I actually did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Morgan]

I lost 27 family members. Not in an accident. I lost them because they didn't want to talk to me. My younger cousins, older cousins, my entire family. Because I decided to try a different type of relationship. I decided to be with an African American man. So when I did that, my family said no. They didn't want nothing to do with that. At that time, I was married. I was in the middle of a divorce. I was still legally married, but I had left. Left the house. I had left. I had Spanish friends who were telling me I shouldn't be living the way I was living. You know, like, my ex husband wouldn't allow me to have friends. Or like, if I tried to go out with my cousins, I couldn't go out with them. They could come to my house. And I had a pretty house, but I used to call it a pretty little jail cell. That's what I used to call it, really. And I was just stuck in that situation. And my friends that I kept for years, like, in secrecy, kept female friends in secrecy, were like, no, you live in America. You should not be with this person. I don't care. Like, I don't care about the background. They just kept telling me, this is wrong. So he made over $150,000 at that time. That was a long time ago. Talking about 10 years ago. So my family did not want me to leave this man. They wanted me to stay with him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Morgan]

And it just got really bad. Abuse and everything else played a big part into it. So at that time, I started going to school in secrecy. Like the Internet had just did the online schooling, started doing all these things behind his back that would level me up. Long story short, I met an African American guy and he became my husband. And I've been with him for 13 years now. And we live a great life. Both of us are in the medical field. And long story short about my ex husband, he's a piece. He's just. He's a piece of garbage. He has no job. The job that he used to flaunt in my face for 150,000, that made him so high up in the world, he no longer has it. They fired him for stealing. It is so much. So I leveled up in many ways. And I thank my success to my current husband, who helped me through school, who helped me through everything. Guys like, this is a real story, and it's a beautiful story.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What about your family now? Has your family accepted them after 13 years?

[Morgan]

They won't speak to me. I'm Indian. They think that being with a black man is just the wrongest thing. I'll never forget one of my family members who I love dear and near told me I'm gonna get aids. Like, I've never.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. All right, that is going too far.

[Gary Owen]

Because we won't be even having it. Like, they do too much.

[Morgan]

No, they're wrong. They're all wrong. And I mean this. I know. I'm on the radio. I mean this. They all think like that. I really mean this. They do. Like all the older generation, that if you bring a black man home. But it's so weird. I could bring a Chinese man home and they'll mess with him. They'll, oh, this is a great guy, blah, blah, blah. But the moment I said, foot in that house with African American myth, I'm gonna get this, that, and the third. Every std. That's whatever in the book. I'm gonna get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They believe. They believe all the stereotypes about black people. Now, listen, have you ever said mom, and have you ever told your mom and your aunts, look, he's a great man and he has a huge penis? You think that would. That would change anything?

[Morgan]

A thousand times. I tried. I tried. I said, I've never. This man has never hit me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me.

[Morgan]

This man has never put a mark on me. I've been with him for 13 years. This man has never, ever hit me. Ever.

[Gary Owen]

Charlamagne cares more about. Did you tell your parents about his penis? That's what Charlamagne's asking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I didn't even say. I didn't say anything about that.

[Morgan]

Repeat that.

[Gary Owen]

Never mind. Thank you. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't even say that.

[Gary Owen]

Yes, you did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[Gary Owen]

Well, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. And thank you for calling in and sharing your story. Mama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. It's gonna be better. By the way, nobody is going to admit, yeah, my ex leveled up. That's not how ego works. A person, especially a man, might say, yeah, I lost a good one. But they're not gonna say, I lost a good one, and she went and found somebody better than me.

[Gary Owen]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what's going on? Good morning. This is D coming out of Atlanta.

[Gary Owen]

What's up, brother? We're talking about being leveled up on now. Somebody leveled up. Leveled up on you.

[Morgan]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

My ex.

[Gary Owen]

Sh.

[Morgan]

She. She.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She leveled up on me, first of all. Good morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. I never thought we would find somebody like you. The floor is yours. Tell us. Oh, just be honest, man. It was. This happened about six, seven years ago. I was younger than her. Obviously. She older than me. Yeah, I. I didn't understand at the time, y', all, so I. I pretty much was just holding her down, holding her back, not trying to be the best of my end. Now I'm doing better myself. She did level up on me. She got a crib, car, all types of drinks.

[Gary Owen]

You sick? A little.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Time out time. That's not what I'm saying. You said she leveled up on you and she got a crib. I'm talking about the man that she's with. Is the man she with now better than you? Oh, no, I don't think so. You. You lying. Did you think that? Hey, you mean. What you mean? I can't say.

[Morgan]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know how he. No, no, no, I understand what you're saying. You. You was proving my point, though. It's like no man's going to admit that another man is better than him. You saying that she leveled up in life, meaning she got a car and a house and stuff now? Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, but. But not.

[Gary Owen]

Nothing about the guy that she with, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[Gary Owen]

He not better than you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm g. Say, hell no.

[Gary Owen]

Thank you, brother.

[DJ Envy]

And your book, Charlene, your first one. Don't you talk about your like something but a bigger penis or something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow. Penis don't mean bigger. Penis don't mean he better than me.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm just saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Level up.

[DJ Envy]

So you've been leveled up on before.

[Gary Owen]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

She spent the block though, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know? Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? No, he just. No, he just had a bigger penis. Crazy. That's all. Just like this. Women. I'm sure that you know. Never mind. Go ahead. Go ahead. I don't want to hurt your feelings. I don't want to hurt Lauren's feelings on this fine Friday.

[DJ Envy]

What's got any of you on this fine Friday?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, I will say what I want to say.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, one of Lauren's exes left Lauren for a white woman. Oh, no. Hell. And that's because Lawrence built like a white woman. That's because Lauren's built like a white woman. So why. Why have a second rate version of something?

[DJ Envy]

Wow, you so mad that my body BT that's number one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Cuz. Your waist don't be giving not a thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just thick. And I know you ain't talking about waist. I know you're not talking about waist. Not giving a thing.

[DJ Envy]

Cuz what weight ain't gonna be giving up and it don't be there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chill out. Period.

[Gary Owen]

This is.

[DJ Envy]

And then nobody leave me for nothing. When he stumbled upon after me. Ain't got nothing to do with me. Would the caller say his function is his function? I'm over here in mine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all have to relate. Yo.

[Gary Owen]

Wow. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I say one more thing? No. Can I say one more thing?

[Gary Owen]

No. Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just one more thing.

[Gary Owen]

Go ahead, go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren built like Wendy Williams.

[Gary Owen]

Yo, you know what? When we come back, we got the ladies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We come back.

[Gary Owen]

This is a death.

[DJ Envy]

He's so traumatized by her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bill.

[Gary Owen]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Gary Owen]

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to pass the auxiliary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, dj, come spin that coast. What's up, Nyla? How are you?

[Baby Chief]

I just want y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. Nyla. Big Nyla. Yes.

[Gary Owen]

Nyla had a long night. She got sunglasses on.

[Baby Chief]

Yeah, I was going to say the sunglasses aren't. Because I'm trying to be cool. They're like the. The POV Blu Ray. What is it? The Meta glasses.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you got the camera in your glasses.

[Baby Chief]

So I was gonna do, like, some little POV content.

[Gary Owen]

Like, okay.

[Baby Chief]

On the radio.

[Gary Owen]

That's a damn lie. But I'll let you rock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you mean?

[Gary Owen]

There you go. Now I can see the light.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Baby Chief]

Why would I lie about that?

[DJ Envy]

That's so silly.

[Baby Chief]

But okay, let's get into the music. This week, Jid dropped the project. It's called God Does Like Ugly. This is his fourth studio album. It has features from Ty Dolla, Sign, Earth Gang, Sierra, Vince Staples. The Vince Staples one's Crazy. And Eclipse record, that's crazy, too. But I want to get into the Sierra record because it's a really big record. It feels good, and it's called Skate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dropping the Foos Bombs for J I D. That. That's fire.

[Gary Owen]

And you know what that'll be. That should be the theme song for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your 19 and 90 now party.

[Baby Chief]

Hello, 1999.

[Gary Owen]

That's definitely giving that. I can see a little one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What. What tempo was that, too? It's a certain tempo that just make a person over 45 just can't stop.

[Baby Chief]

Is that like 135?

[Gary Owen]

That's like between I would say between 125 and 140. Yeah, they're up tempo yeah Damn, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Moving didn't realize you're back in your knees Ain't what they to used Used.

[Baby Chief]

To be exactly my way yeah, yeah Shout out to Jid. He was doing the Dollar in the Dream tours. He did four. His last one was in Atlanta yesterday. He did the New York one on Tuesday that I was at and it was phenomenal. And Metro Booman's listening party was actually really dope too. I went in person to see, you know, if feeling it in real time would make me like the project a little more. And I would say there's like three records I do actually like, but still not my favorite project from him. But anyway, keeping it Atlanta. Gunna just dropped his project after announcing his project on Monday. And fans have been speculating that this is going to be his last project on ysl. Hence the name, the last one. But it has features from Burna Boy, Wizkid Asake, and Offset. But I'm gonna get into this joint with Burner called wgft.

[Gary Owen]

I'm trying to catch the beat.

[Baby Chief]

You know that part. There was a lot going on in that selected part.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, that was a bad selection, that part. But sound dope though.

[Baby Chief]

Yeah, I was playing some.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I was just saying I listen to you play Jid and I listen to Gunna and it just makes me wonder what is the sound of Atlanta now? Like, I think of like the Offset Bodies record and it seems like they're making these big global sounding records. Like it's not for the strip clubs anymore. They're more for like the stadiums and the festivals now.

[Baby Chief]

Yeah, I definitely can agree with that. The fact that both of them are two different ends of Atlanta, but two different sounds. I think think Gunna is going definitely global with all these African features on his project. But also Jid too. Like he has a joint on his project with Jesse Reyes where he's rapping in Spanish. So like, I think that's just like where we're at now. Especially both of them, like in their career. You know, they're at a point where they can do stuff like this, but I like it. And then the last one is Baby Chief Do It. He's been going viral all year. People been comparing him to Riley, saying that he's like the real life version of Riley.

[Gary Owen]

What's his name?

[Baby Chief]

Baby Chief.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Baby Chief. Oh, okay. Baby Chief.

[Baby Chief]

Baby Chief do it. Baby Cheeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's funny.

[Baby Chief]

But he's from Chicago and this record has been going viral. It's called Went West.

[Gary Owen]

Okay, okay, all right, all right.

[Baby Chief]

That might be for the. Yeah, okay, cool.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That ain't for un.

[Baby Chief]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That ain't for un right there. You know what I'm saying? Salute the Baby Chief. Do it. But that ain't for UN that ain't for UNC right there. That make my. That make the cortisol. That make the cortisol levels in my body start going up and I start looking around like, wait a little y N with the ski mask on. The sheistes, where they at? I know they around here somewhere.

[Baby Chief]

All right, okay, fine. Well, yes. Shout out to Baby Chief.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's.

[Baby Chief]

He's. I just recently interviewed him on my podcast, and he's actually, like, really smart and he's super young, but he's still a teenager, so I think he has a bright future ahead of him. Looking forward to that. But I do have an announcement. I'm super excited to invite you guys to the Echo, which is going to be a rap night powered by certified vibe. No Hollywood behavior, no bottle service, just good energy and real hip hop. So we're gonna be bridging the gaps from the OGs to the new wave with a night curated by me, Static, select, the 9th Wonder, and Rob Markman. And our idea of it is just to, like, create a space for rappers to pull up and just rap. You know, like, we want to touch people who are fans of rap and we want to have a cool space, kind of like lyricist lounge back in the day. So if you guys are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay, okay. I thought you was talking about the music. Okay.

[Baby Chief]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought I would be somewhere where I hear Baby Chief do it, and then I hear, you know, like, new Edition, and I'm like, I don't know if I want to be there.

[Baby Chief]

No, no, no. We're not that broad in the spectrum. It's just. It's going to be a nap. A rap night. So you'll hear Tribe, you'll hear jid, you'll hear clips, but you'll also hear Nico Brim, Kai Cash. So we're just trying to bridge the G gaps together. So if you guys are interested, Definitely go to certifiedvibe.com, get you a ticket while you're there. Definitely tap into the certified playlist if you like the records that you heard today. And then also while you're over there, make sure you guys check out my new interview with LaCrae that just dropped on my podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We need to talk.

[Baby Chief]

So make sure you guys tap in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shout out to LaCrae. That's what's up. Got you.

[Gary Owen]

Thank you. All right, well, up next, we got the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, man, I'm not gonna lie. That baby chief do it. Make me want to go buy a dog. I'm scared.

[Baby Chief]

A dog?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You get the dog from it, Henry.

[Gary Owen]

Yeah, you stupid.

[Baby Chief]

You got a dog, dog?

[Gary Owen]

I got a couple.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow. Yeah, you see him flexing with the dogs on shaver. Oh, yeah, that's right. You didn't see it because he never showed the dogs. He showed his house. I'm screaming.

[Gary Owen]

Get your request. And we throw it back on a Friday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Gary Owen]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. I want to salute to everybody in Houston. I'm gonna be at the Jungle. That's Rain on Washington. It's their grand opening. I'll be DJing this Saturday, so if you're in H town, join me there. And then Sunday, I'm at Chapman and Kirby, one of my favorite day spots. Day party spots in Houston. So I'll be in Houston all weekend long, so pull up on me if you're out and about. And then, of course, next Saturday, we back here in New York City for that car show. 20 minutes from the city. Kids five and under are free. And if you're around the American Dream Mall, which is one of the biggest malls in the country, they get a lot of people. I actually put my cars in the mall, a couple of cars. Just give you a taste of what the car show is going to be like. So take a picture, take a selfie with the cars in the background, and make sure you at me, and I'll definitely repost it. I would love to see how many people take pictures with the car. So salute to American Dream. All right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then also next Tuesday and Wednesday.

[DJ Envy]

August 12th and 13th, I will be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

At Salsa Confuego in the Bronx, y'. All.

[Gary Owen]

So make sure I get y' all tickets. Jessalariusofficial.com or salsa confuego.com the tickets are selling fast, so make sure you hop up there and get those.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I will not be doing meet and greet at the Bronx. My bad.

[Gary Owen]

I'm not gonna be doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm going.

[Gary Owen]

You better do a meet and greet with me. I'm on a picture. I see you every morning, every day of my life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo. No.

[Gary Owen]

So get your tickets. The Bronx can't wait to see y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Gary Owen]

Now, Charlotte, you in the Carolinas this weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, man. Tomorrow, Saturday from 6pm to 8pm I'll be having my 10th annual back to school Drive and fish fry at the Berkeley High School bus loop in my hometown of Moncks Corner, South Carolina. I've been doing this for the last decade. We got the free backpacks in the school supplies. We got the food trucks gonna be out there, my dad gonna be out there frying fish, and everything is free. Please don't be greedy. Okay, when you pull up, you know, don't just pull up to get no food. Make sure you have a child with you that needs some backpacking school supplies. Then you can eat all you want. But yes, tomorrow, 6:00pm to 8:00pm, Berkeley High School bus loop, Monks Corner, South Carolina. My 10th annual Back to School Drive and fish fry. Everything is free. We'll see you tomorrow in Monks Corner, South Carolina.

[Gary Owen]

All right, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the positive note is simply this. Yes, I do, man. I want y' all to remember this weekend. Love who you are, are, and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you. Have a blessed day. Hey, Breakfast club.

[DJ Envy]

This is an I heart podcast.