FULL SHOW: Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Announce Engagement, Lil Nas X Speaks Out After Prison Release: “That Was Terrifying” + Claudia & Teyana Taylor Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club — August 27, 2025

iHeartPodcasts | Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee, Lauren LaRosa
Special Guests: Teyana Taylor, Claudia

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Breakfast Club covers an array of hot topics swirling in pop culture and current events, blending headline news and candid listener calls with a highlight interview featuring Teyana Taylor. The crew—DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, and Angela Yee—dive into politics, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement, Lil Nas X's post-prison reflections, and a powerful, personal conversation with Teyana Taylor about her new project, voice surgery, and public breakup.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Hot Topics & Front Page News

Presidential Politics and City Tensions (05:10–09:49)

• Trump’s Death Penalty Statement
  • Morgan Wood reports on Trump calling for the death penalty for any murderers in D.C., touting it as “a very strong preventative measure.” (05:10)
  • Fact check: D.C. hasn’t had capital punishment since 1957. (08:32)
    • Angela Yee: “The District of Columbia has not had an execution since Robert Carter in 1957. Capital punishment is abolished in D.C. Get it?” (08:32)
• National Guard Deployments
  • Illinois and New York leaders push back against Trump’s threats to send National Guard troops to Chicago and NYC, calling the moves unconstitutional and unnecessary. Governors Pritzker (IL) and Hochul (NY), and Mayor Adams (NYC) stress that crime is “under control.” (34:23–37:59)

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce: Engagement Announcement (21:41–29:32)

• Lauren LaRosa breaks the news: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce post a joint Instagram announcement of their engagement, with celebratory photos in a floral garden.
  • Lauren: “The caption said, ‘your favorite English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,’ with the firecracker. This is big news.” (22:03)
  • The hosts weigh in on public fanfare, the business behind celeb engagement announcements (“There’s no way he could have surprised her”—Lauren, 24:26), and whether Swift knew in advance for the perfect rollout.

Mariah Carey On Tupac (29:47–32:05)

• Clip from Brown Bag Morning Show: Mariah Carey shares she “wished she had dated Tupac.”
  • Angela Yee: “That could have been a real sexy couple ... just being like, sexy. Yeah, I could have saw that, baby.” (31:09)
  • Charlamagne jokes: “She got the next best thing. Nicholas Scott Cannon. Don’t ever disrespect.” (30:44)

2. Listener Calls: "Get It Off Your Chest" (10:13–19:14)

• Birthday Party Letdown:
  • Sydney laments friends no-showing her “dirty 30,” leaving her with a $2,100 bill.
    • “Only nine showed up... and they left me with a bill.” (11:01)
    • Charlamagne (brutal as ever): “You realize they don’t really like you, though, right?” (12:42)
• Bus Driver Breakfast Break:
  • Big James shares drama when a fellow bus driver reports him for pulling over to get breakfast.
    • “She done called on me for pulling over, getting breakfast. Called my supervisor.” (16:03)
    • The crew empathizes with the day-to-day struggles of bus drivers (16:59–18:19).

3. Interview: Teyana Taylor Shares Her Journey (40:54–69:03)

On Vocal Surgery & Recovery (42:07–44:28)

• Teyana reveals why she needed surgery on her vocal cords right before her album release—polyps from vocal trauma.
  • “I had polyps on my vocal cords... my vocal cords didn’t even close.” (42:07)
  • “To get surgery literally two weeks before your album drops is like... what am I gonna do?” (43:08)

Creative Process & New Album “Escape Room” (47:56–49:20)

• Taylor describes the deeply autobiographical structure of the album, recorded in real time as she navigated heartbreak and renewal.
  • “The album is recorded in order... you go from heartbreak to, like,... you just wanna feel something... and then you find someone who helps you, the spark in your eye is back.” (46:51–47:56)
• The album is paired with a short film: “It was always a visual album for me first.” (48:15)

On Divorce, Privacy, and Healing (49:20–66:19)

• Taylor opens up about her challenging public split with Iman Shumpert, decision to keep details private for their kids, and the impact of social media scrutiny.
  • “My job is to protect them ... keep everything private … but this album was a beautiful way to express myself.” (50:38–50:59)
• On breaking her silence (“the live really woke people up”), her decision to pay $70,000 for legal peace, and her hope to move forward.
  • “...I would never do nothing like that... now I’m being called out my name, and I’m just confused.” (52:09–53:07)

Themes of Freedom and New Beginnings

• Charlamagne: “Damn, you really did escape. This is like a whole new chapter for you.” (61:47)
• Teyana: “I never thought I’d be so excited to spend $70,000 in my life ... it was a weight off my shoulders.” (62:28)

On the Album as a Love Letter and Full-Circle Moment

• “I love love. So I go into things prideless and egoless... just full of, like, I do want a fairy tale.” (63:47)
• “Y’all have watched me grow up... but I’m not this aggressive, rah-rah person people think.” (64:15)

Artistry, Collaboration, and Visual Ambition

• Taylor discusses collaborating with artists like Jill Scott, Issa Rae, Regina King, and curating the “cinematic” experience of the album and forthcoming tour.
  • “That’s like the director in me. I could see the aesthetic of something ... understanding the two voices together.” (66:22)
• Angela: “I want to see this on Broadway. ... This is something I would pay to see.” (70:17)

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4. Additional News & Entertainment Updates

• Lil Nas X Speaks After Incident and Prison Release (71:02–72:36)

  • Lil Nas X’s first comments after pleading not guilty to charges tied to a bizarre public episode:
    • “That was terrifying. That was a terrifying last four days. But your girl is going to be all right.” (71:38)
  • Hosts discuss the seriousness versus the social media “jokey” tone of his message.

• Cardi B Court Appearance Over Security Guard Lawsuit (90:18–94:04)

  • Cardi describes an altercation with a security guard in 2018 at her OBGYN’s office, denying she assaulted anyone.
    • “I did call her the B word... I did not hit her. I’m looking at her like, girl, I can’t even hit you if I wanted to; you’re bigger than me and I’m pregnant.” (91:18)
  • Lawsuit filed in 2020 alleges assault and emotional distress; no video exists.

• Drake Called Out for Tupac “Death Row” Chain (95:11–98:46)

  • Suge Knight clarifies that Drake’s chain is not Tupac’s original Death Row chain.
    • “Now Drake bought that chain. Drake should go back and keep their drawers up.” (96:32)
  • Hosts speculate on Drake’s collection of hip-hop memorabilia as artifacts.

• Cracker Barrel Logo Reversal (38:35–40:29)

  • Cracker Barrel ditches its new logo after backlash; will keep the original “old timer” man leaning on the barrel.
    • Morgan: “They’re gonna bring back that good old [logo].” (39:19)

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5. Notable Quotes and Moments

• Charlamagne (on press questions at President’s briefing):
  • “If you in that room with the President ... ask him about the Epstein files ... the economy ... Russia and Ukraine ... all the things ... you ask about Taylor Swift?” (08:09)
• DJ Envy (to birthday girl caller):
  • “You want to issue on them this morning, you want to say their names?” (12:22)
• Teyana Taylor (on starting over):
  • “I’m giving myself the permission to love unarmored.” (63:31)
• Angela Yee (on the new album):
  • “I want to see this ... on Broadway. It’s a production style album.” (70:17)

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6. Timestamps for Major Segments

• Front Page News (Politics): 05:10–09:49; 34:23–40:29
• Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Engagement: 21:41–29:32
• Mariah Carey on Tupac: 29:39–32:05
• Teyana Taylor Interview: 40:54–69:03
• Lil Nas X Update: 71:02–72:36
• Cardi B Court Case: 90:18–94:04
• Drake & Tupac Chain Discussion: 95:11–98:46
• Cracker Barrel Logo News: 38:35–40:29

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7. Tone and Dynamic

As ever, the hosts mix playful banter, honest emotion, and no-holds-barred commentary. Charlamagne serves up jokes with a hint of provocation, DJ Envy grounds the table, Angela’s empathy shines during sensitive moments, and Lauren adds fresh perspective on entertainment news. Teyana Taylor’s segment is especially heartfelt and revealing, showing her strength and vulnerability.

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8. Final Thoughts & Closing

• The team praises Teyana Taylor for her honesty and artistry, urging listeners to stream her album and watch the accompanying short film.
• Lauren and Envy head off to the US Open’s HBCU Day.
• Closing positive note: “Take action without expecting a reward... Do your best and take the action because you love it, not because you expect a reward.” (101:27)

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For New Listeners

If you missed the episode, expect unfiltered takes on the week’s biggest stories, deeply personal art and life reflections from Teyana Taylor, and thoughtful audience engagement. Whether you care about celebrity gossip, social justice, or just want to laugh, this episode has something for everyone.

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Listen wherever you get podcasts and check out Teyana Taylor’s ‘Escape Room’ album and short film for the full experience.

Transcript

[Morgan Wood]

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[Carlos Miller]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Teyana Taylor]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Jess Hilarious.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The God piece of the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Good morning. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. How you feeling? What's up, Jess?

[Angela Yee]

What's up?

[Teyana Taylor]

How y' all doing?

[DJ Envy]

You look very 90s b girlish, about to break dance, but you got the biggie shirt on.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She look sa to me.

[Angela Yee]

I look like a whack.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's it.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Angela Yee]

Stop saying that. Why, because of the flannel?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Don't play with me.

[Caller/Listener]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See that?

[Angela Yee]

Because you got the kicks on the dress on. You know what I mean? Whatever. I appreciate that. You know, I used to dress like this in high school, but. And look, guess who came up here dressed like this. Sierra. Ever since she came up here, I was like, you know what? I'm about to throw on my old high school squad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what else? Sierra says she is blexican.

[Angela Yee]

She was joking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I couldn't tell. I didn't know.

[Angela Yee]

I know. She was speaking it fluent.

[DJ Envy]

At first I didn't know either. I thought she was really lexican, and then she was like, I was joking. I didn't catch the joke, but I was.

[Angela Yee]

See, it's the way that Spanish rolled off that table.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sure that nowadays, you know, Chris pronounces words you and two, and, you know, he says, hey, boo, he's from Baltimore, so.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, he already got that. Why, y', all, look, you the only one that said he from Cabo. He not from there. He's from Baltimore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay.

[DJ Envy]

The place that Cabo. Why Cabo? I know, but why Cabo? You could have went anywhere. Just the only place.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know I didn't say that.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, I just know. Yeah, it's just like he always tried. Like, he was born and raised in Mexico and just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was he.

[Angela Yee]

No, he wasn't his mother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look.

[Angela Yee]

Bye.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Salute to Chris. Salute to Chris.

[Angela Yee]

Stupid.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, today on the show, Teyana Taylor will be joining us this morning. We're gonna be kicking it with TT this morning. She got a new project that comes out. It's out right now. Out right now. And the film.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So in the mini movie.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, so we're gonna be talking to Teyana Taylor in a little bit.

[Angela Yee]

The escape room.

[DJ Envy]

The escape room, yeah. So we're gonna be talking to Teyana Taylor. We sat down with her for a minute. So I'm excited about that. All right, and let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Morgan's gonna be breaking down a lot, so don't go anywhere. Salute to Ro. Bob Marley.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So he just.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, just FaceTime me saying good morning. He's out in Africa, so. So fam. He takes care. You know, he went to University of Miami. Logan goes to University of Miami. So he, you know, makes sure he keeps an eye on Logan. He did. He's in Africa right now, so it's daytime out there.

[Angela Yee]

So Chris named our daughter after them people.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Angela Yee]

That's what's up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Ro Marley. All right, well, let's get in some front page news. All right. Now in some quick sports, if you didn't hear, Shador Sanders makes the Browns roster, they named him QB3, so he's the third backup quarterback.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations.

[DJ Envy]

And Alisa Thomas drops a record seventh triple double this season in Mercury's win over the Sparks. 92 84. She finished with 12.16 rebounds and 15 assists. What's up, Morgan?

[Teyana Taylor]

Hey, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey.

[Morgan Wood]

How we feeling on a Wednesday hump day, girl. Halfway through the week. I love it. All right, so let's get into it. So President Trump, he's calling for the death penalty for any murderers in Washington, D.C. he made those comments while touting the national guard intervention in D.C. during his Cabinet meeting yesterday. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

Anybody murders something in the Capitol?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every policy of the Trump administration is.

[DJ Envy]

Designed to lift up the American worker, promote great paying blue collar jobs, and to rebuild the industrial bedrock of our nation. Groceries are down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Energy is way down. Energy is way down.

[DJ Envy]

It was four and five dollars for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A gallon of gas.

[Morgan Wood]

Actually, those comments were from his Cabinet meeting in regards to workers and the upcoming Labor Day holiday. Of course. Prior to those comments, he praised the current status of the economy, saying Americans are seeing lower prices on food and energy. But the comments regarding the death penalty for murders in Washington, D.C. i'm not sure what happened to the audio there, but basically he said that anybody who commits a murder in Washington, D.C. he's calling for the death penalty on and capital punishment for those. He then called it a very strong preventative measure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was the history of the death penalty in D.C. prior? I don't know.

[Caller/Listener]

You know what?

[Morgan Wood]

I'm not sure, but I don't. I don't believe that Washington, D.C. has ever been a place nor, well, the surrounding areas. Virginia. Well, Virginia has, but Maryland to have capital punishment, that's not something that's been on the table before. They do have very strict laws around things Very, very strict laws. But capital punishment I don't believe has ever been on the table, but I can definitely look back into that for you guys. But again, the President covered several topics during his Cabinet meeting yesterday. And as previous audio played, that was in regards to the upcoming Labor Day holiday. And he said that the average worker has gotten about $500 wage increase since he took office. He also claimed grocery and gas prices are down. As you mentioned in the audio, Trump also praised the American military, calling it the greatest on the planet. Uh, the meeting is the seventh Cabinet meeting of the Trump's second term. Now, Trump is also commenting on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's recent engagement. You know, he's been critical of Taylor Swift in the past, and he was asked about their engagement, his Cabinet meeting, and this is what he had to say.

[Caller/Listener]

I think he said, a great player.

[DJ Envy]

I think he's a great guy.

[Caller/Listener]

And I think that she's a terrific person.

[Carlos Miller]

So I wish them a lot of love.

[Morgan Wood]

So that comment was met with some immediate laughter in the room. As I mentioned before, who the hell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cares what Donald Trump thinks about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's engagement, All the things going on in the world? Like, why would even. Yeah, exactly. Why would you even ask him that?

[DJ Envy]

He doesn't even. He doesn't like, that's so stupid.

[Morgan Wood]

Exactly. But that goes to show the fact that he just said that she's a terrific person and, you know, he wishes them a lot of luck. It's kind of like, well, is that a stark difference or are you just being polite?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that goes to show that people just be wanting headlines. Because if you in that room with the President and you're part of the press, and that's the question you think they're asking with everything going on in the world. Ask him about the Epstein files. Ask them about the economy. You know what I mean? Ask them about Russia and Ukraine. Is there going to be a ceasefire? Ask them about Israel and Gaza. All the things you could be asking the President about you asking about Taylor Swift.

[DJ Envy]

And that don't even make sense. That's a waste of question.

[Angela Yee]

And the District of Columbia has not had an execution since Robert Carter in 1980, 1957. Capital punishment is abolished in D.C. get it?

[Morgan Wood]

Jess, thank you.

[Angela Yee]

Okay. You know, I'm helping you out.

[Morgan Wood]

Appreciate you. But one thing that stuck out to me yesterday, and I'll wrap up with this, is that Trump says he has the right to do anything he wants to do as the President of the United States. Of course he says that. I'm just saying he, that's what he said. That's what he believed. And of course, he said that in regards to what's going on with the National Guard takeover of these cities. But we'll get into that at seven o'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clock.

[Morgan Wood]

We'll talk, we'll hear from Illinois leaders and leaders, New York as well. These are just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I just, we just got to be clear when we say things like that, like the US President cannot do whatever they want because their powers are limited by the Constitution, Congress and the judiciary. Like, we gotta. Like, when things are like that are said by him, you have to re, you know, push back against it. He can't do it.

[Morgan Wood]

Anything he wants, you can definitely fact check. But you know, based on what's his, his movement and the way that he has been movement moving, he's going to, you know, pretty much test the line, toe the line to cross the line and deal with it later on in court. So that's your front page news for 6am at 7am, stick around. We will hear from those local leaders in Illinois and New York regarding National Guard takeover and deployments in their cities.

[Teyana Taylor]

So stick around.

[DJ Envy]

All right? And everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-1051. And don't forget, next hour, Tiana Taylor will be joining us. She got her new album that's out in her new short story. So we're going to kick it with Tiana a little bit. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A new day.

[Carlos Miller]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait. Wake up.

[Carlos Miller]

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

[DJ Envy]

To get up and get something.

[Carlos Miller]

Call up now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Carlos Miller]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

This is Sydney.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Sydney.

[Morgan Wood]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

And happy birthday. Belated.

[Caller/Listener]

Thank you so much. Thank you. And y' all know, Jazz, happy belated birthday to your daughter as well.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, thank you so much. It was my baby girl birthday last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said, jess, oh, you're too in there.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm sorry.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you, babe. My baby girl Marley's birthday was last Wednesday. Thank you, girl.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes. So I'm here to get it off my chest. I had a. It was my dirty 30 and I bought this, like, let's say 30 people, and literally only nine showed up. And they left me with a bill.

[Angela Yee]

Damn. What? And it was your dirty 30?

[Caller/Listener]

It was my 30.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

30.

[Angela Yee]

Y' all went out to dinner. You had a dinner, and they. And only nine people showed up. You invited 30 people? Nine showed up, and he left.

[Caller/Listener]

No, really, truly. There's a. There's a beautiful restaurant in the Bronx called Maya's Bar and Grill. So I kind of rented out the back section to have. And it was gonna be open bar. You just had to pay a hundred dollars. But, you know, I gotta give him a headcount to know how much, you know, food to bake for how many people.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

So I give him a head. I don't think the paper's gonna pop up, you know, and they kind of did it, and they kind of stumped me with that bill.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. That was $3,000. $100 a pop, and only nine. So you. So you had to come out your pocket, what, 2,100.

[Caller/Listener]

Exactly.

[Angela Yee]

Jesus, I'm so sorry.

[Caller/Listener]

Exactly. So. And I'm still. I had to put it on the payment plan. I ain't gonna lie. Cause I ain't got it.

[Angela Yee]

I feel you. I understand. And they knew that, too. And if they knew that they wasn't going. How can you even show up somewhere not having no money? And it's the birthday girl birthday.

[Caller/Listener]

No, it wasn't. When that didn't even. They said it was coming and just didn't show up.

[DJ Envy]

So they RSVP and everything, all that. Damn.

[Angela Yee]

I'm so sorry. But you see, you look going into your 30s, you see you got to leave some people back in the 20s.

[Caller/Listener]

No, trust me, I see that now. I cut everybody out.

[DJ Envy]

You want to say all your friends that didn't show up or you want to. You want to. You want to issue on them this morning, you want to say their names?

[Caller/Listener]

Well, I know one of them because they got a definite family. But you know what? People didn't show up. And I'm like, at least you won't pay me half the bills. Send me to pay for this bill. I was everybody. I called a C out. I was like, y' all send me something. Send me at least half the quotes so I can pay this bill, cuz this ain't me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You real. But you do realize they don't really like you, though, right?

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Caller/Listener]

Oh, damn. Thanks, Charlotte.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying, like, they didn't. They didn't show up. Like, did they give valid reasons? What was the reason?

[Angela Yee]

Only one person gave a valid reason. They had a death in the family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And everybody else Was just.

[Caller/Listener]

I mean, they had a family, everybody. I don't. I didn't even tell you the untrue. I don't even care about the explanation or whatever. I just had to at least pay something, give me something, because they already.

[DJ Envy]

Did you tell them that it was a hundred dollars or you just said, pull up.

[Angela Yee]

That's a little stink.

[Caller/Listener]

No, it was a flyer. Everything, a hundred dollar, open bar, food, everything was included. Yeah, it was a whole flyer. I didn't just tell them, pull up and like, no, you gotta prep. You gotta prep. Some people now everybody got it, you know.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, for sure.

[Caller/Listener]

Some people, you know, press and, you know, save their money and stuff. But no, I didn't just tell them to, you know. Tough.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'm sorry. At least the restaurant did a payment plan. Most restaurants would have probably locked you up. At least they did a payment plan.

[Angela Yee]

I know.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's very good and the food is delicious. Maya's Bar and Restaurant on East Tremont. If you're ever out, just go.

[DJ Envy]

But Maya's on East if y' all want to bless. Yeah, a little bit. You know, only nine people ate. Only nine people drink. Yeah, Maya's. Help her out a little bit if you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That ain't Maya's fault.

[DJ Envy]

I know, but.

[Caller/Listener]

He is helping me. He is helping me. He's working with me. So he did A plus. And so I just want to shout out his restaurant. Cause he's a dope person.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, go. Go to my. Maybe Maya can take up some more.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, that's what's up.

[Caller/Listener]

That too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know.

[Caller/Listener]

Can I just put my cash out in case somebody want to bless me and feel desperate for a girl?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, this is crazy. Yo, Charlotte, it is everything going on in the world and you really going to ask people for your cash app? Cause people didn't show up to your birthday party. Come on now.

[Angela Yee]

No, it's not even that. It's because she got a whole big ass bill to pay by herself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's her fault. She should have friends that actually like her.

[DJ Envy]

Well, she doesn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she just found out to ask the public to cover that bill. No. God bless you, sweetheart. We love you. Have a great day.

[Angela Yee]

When you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you get on the radio and ask the public to send something to your cash app, it should be for dire needs, bro. Yeah, like not this. Come on, man.

[Angela Yee]

No, but what if she has dire needs that she can't take care of because she had to pay herself?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She should have thought about that. Beforehand, maybe you should have had a smaller function. Or once again, have some friends that actually like you. Friends that actually like you. Take you out for your birthday.

[Angela Yee]

Exactly. Or it shouldn't have been at Myers, because a hundred dollars is steep for one night when people ain't got it right now, she should have did Golden Corral in the Bronx.

[DJ Envy]

That should have went to go to crawl. 20 was like $29.

[Angela Yee]

29.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, she would have been good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'd have been good.

[Angela Yee]

She would have did that. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Sorry, Mama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Well, if I had your cash out, I would have threw a dollar on.

[Angela Yee]

You, too, but I'm dang something.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Carlos Miller]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello?

[Teyana Taylor]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Grumpy, yo.

[Caller/Listener]

What's up, man? It's Big James, man, from Palaca.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big James.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Big James? You a bus driver? Big James.

[Caller/Listener]

Y' all my bus driver, man. Listen, man, I got this lady, she done called on me for pulling over, getting breakfast.

[Angela Yee]

Pulling over doing what?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you went to get breakfast, you pulled over. She called the cops on you?

[Caller/Listener]

No, she called the cops. Called my supervisor.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, wow.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah. Called my supervisor, man. Come to find out this cops a little more breakfast than I do.

[DJ Envy]

What did your supervisor say?

[Caller/Listener]

Supervisor cruising the fan. She was like, don't worry about it. You know what I'm saying? Keep doing your thing.

[Angela Yee]

But the fact that somebody tried to.

[DJ Envy]

But. But did you have her on the bus while you pulled over and got breakfast?

[Caller/Listener]

Nah, still bus driver, too. She passed by. She seen me pull over.

[Angela Yee]

She hating on you. Wow. So you got the cool bus, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

You know, I pray the Breakfast Club on my bus.

[DJ Envy]

That's what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. We appreciate that.

[Angela Yee]

I know it was competition amongst the bus drivers.

[Caller/Listener]

Man, I'm in school, man. I ain't got positive drunk up.

[Carlos Miller]

This ain't gonna be my career.

[Caller/Listener]

But bad it's gonna be her career. You know what I mean?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That's still a good career. You work 20 years, you're able to retire. You give good benefits and all that. That's still a good career.

[Angela Yee]

Hell, yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

I was in Florida, you know, jca. But I'm going for bigger and better things, man.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

You know what I'm saying? But I'm gonna tell you this, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey.

[Carlos Miller]

Someone who got their files on something.

[Caller/Listener]

On the Fouls gang.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What files? Oh, yeah, of course. Absolutely.

[Caller/Listener]

195.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll tell you one thing, though. They've successfully pushed that out the news cycle, though. Ain't nobody talking about that no more.

[Angela Yee]

What he said now. Everybody quiet.

[DJ Envy]

But thank you, James.

[Caller/Listener]

Popcorn.

[Carlos Miller]

And sit back and watch, bro.

[Caller/Listener]

This is gonna be funny. This has nothing to do with us. Just you come if we don't fumble.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you, James, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We appreciate you, too, man.

[DJ Envy]

Be safe out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, brother. We appreciate you, man. Keep us on on that bus.

[DJ Envy]

That's right, suit. To all the bus drivers out there. My dad was a bus driver. When he got out of the military, the only job he could find was bus driver. And then he took the NYPD test and then became an NYPD officer.

[Angela Yee]

That's what's up, man. I ain't never know. Shane. That. Ain't never tell me. Because, you know, my best friend, she drive us. She never tell me. They be beefing.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know if they'd be beefing. They'd be like. They'd be getting a lot of crazy passengers, like, people throwing.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Milkshakes at them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They say that all the time. Yeah. And Charlemagne seemed like the type. He would terrorize his.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Driver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would I do that?

[DJ Envy]

Because you just seem like that kid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Never do that to. No. But first of all, they're driving the bus, so you an idiot if you terrorizing the bus driver while the bus driver's driving. Okay? You want to die?

[Angela Yee]

People do it, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Do it all the time. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, this is Benny Cheese from Champagne.

[DJ Envy]

Benny Cheese from Champagne Cheese.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That sounds.

[Caller/Listener]

Y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey.

[Caller/Listener]

Sound like.

[Angela Yee]

Don't even worry about it.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, I just want to give a shout out to my wife and my family, okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to them, man.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, we got.

[Carlos Miller]

We've been.

[Caller/Listener]

We've been holding strong with our little. Little girls. Lemonade stand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to you, brother. And shout out to your wife. Okay?

[Angela Yee]

Nice.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you, bro.

[Caller/Listener]

So if y' all get a chance, look, L2S. Lemonade.com, okay?

[DJ Envy]

Lts. Lemonade.com will do, period. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Today in class, we have Lauren LaRosa.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, you do.

[DJ Envy]

You look like you in class. Like you straight out of class today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm at the US Open today, so I wanted to be preppy and cute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, what's happening? At the US Open. Tennis.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. I'm just asking you if you know.

[DJ Envy]

It'S HBCU day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So until HBCU to U.S. open.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, I used to play tennis. I know what the US Open is.

[Angela Yee]

She used to do everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what's up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I did. My mom kept me very active so I could end up here with you guys.

[Angela Yee]

Period.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah. Also, we'll talk about it later, but it was my mom's birthday yesterday, and I didn't say happy birthday. And she literally said, y' all didn't call her and say happy birthday, so we got to do that.

[Angela Yee]

But. But you ain't even tell us. That's your fault.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You told it was your brother birthday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I said, my mom and my brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They have the same birthday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I did not tell my brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I even heard you call your brother and say happy birthday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I. Where's Mommy? Oh, my God. Okay, Anyway, getting back to the latest. We are going to talk about Taylor Swift and Travis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kelsey, you about to lie and act like you. You have.

[Teyana Taylor]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know her and you're a fan again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, we going to get into some conversations.

[Angela Yee]

Engaged.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are engaged. And it has literally. It stopped the world. So we going stop and take account. Okay, I know. We gonna talk about it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that. Next. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Carlos Miller]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, yo.

[Angela Yee]

I just wanted to say, right, Breakfast Club listeners. I keep on telling y', all, y' all are blessing me.

[DJ Envy]

Messy vision.

[Angela Yee]

Messy vision on my eyes today. The ones I have on right now is called the Pedialytes, right? And then you can get them for 20 off if you use the promo code wake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do they call them the Pedialytes?

[Angela Yee]

Because they look like Pedialytes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, gotcha.

[DJ Envy]

Those, like, give you energy.

[Angela Yee]

They give your eyes energy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Medicine.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, but they remind you of Pedialytes.

[DJ Envy]

They're supposed to give you energy, like read electrolytes. Yeah, that's what they give you energy, too.

[Angela Yee]

Messy.

[DJ Envy]

I know. That's what I know before. I know. For the kids, though.

[Angela Yee]

MessyVision eyewear.com. y' all just. Let's get to the lead.

[DJ Envy]

I don't give him that.

[Teyana Taylor]

That.

[DJ Envy]

We take that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you hit the intro?

[Teyana Taylor]

Get the glass.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All that. Just get the glass with somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on this.

[Carlos Miller]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Carlos Miller]

Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced yesterday that they are engaged.

[Caller/Listener]

Whoa.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. So she posted photos. Well, it was a collab post between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. It was posted to Instagram of them. You didn't know where they were at first, but the news came out that it was allegedly. It had happened at his house in Missouri. But they're in, like, this floral garden, and Taylor Swift is in a dress and he's all dressed up, and he's down on one knee in one photo and another photo. You see the ring. Really nice ring as well. And yeah, so the caption said, your favorite English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married with, like, the firecracker. So, you know, there's been a ton of different celebrities and people just sending them congratulations and all the things, but this is big news yesterday. Do you guys care? How many of y' all care? Rachel?

[Angela Yee]

I mean, I honestly do care. I do care. I just didn't know. I mean, you said it broke the Internet and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Define care. What do you mean, care?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so you told us, like, define care.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Care is like, when you saw it on your timeline, did you stop to swipe through the photos and at least look at what.

[Angela Yee]

I did not see it on my timeline. You didn't see it on your timeline?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Angela Yee]

That's why I got Lauren with the latest right here. Because you, I. You updated me.

[Teyana Taylor]

I didn't know.

[DJ Envy]

I am happy for Taylor Westbrook.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[DJ Envy]

He, you know, redid his wedding vows. I did see that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. I saw that as well, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I actually was in a group chat in a debate about who is the top five tight ends of all time yesterday. Now that's. That's what I saw. Travis, Kelsey. Travis, Kelsey.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, like the football.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

Nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, God.

[Angela Yee]

Nice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's okay, girl. Yeah, I did not everybody didn't know that. Some people might have needed to get that clear. All right.

[Angela Yee]

But no, I am happy for Taylor Swift.

[Teyana Taylor]

I am.

[Angela Yee]

And Travis coast. Listen, they happy together. She loved that man. Obviously he loves her. And I think it's dope. I think it's really dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When's the over undone under on the wedding, though?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, when it happens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, because that's when you really celebrate. Like, the engagement is one Thing, but, you know, there's a lot of people out there been engaged for nine years. Right. You know what I'm saying? Are you gonna actually get married within the year?

[DJ Envy]

This has to be huge. This is Taylor Swift. So this has to be huge. I'm talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It will be castles somewhere overseas, probably be televised courses.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Be televised, everything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was also thinking too, because it's Taylor Swift. And we talked about this on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. The podcast could, like, was this obviously couldn't have been a surprise because she has to know what she's walking into because she has to know what to give in the photos because she's Taylor Swift for when they announce it. There's no way he could have surprised her.

[Angela Yee]

What do you mean? That's her trusts. I believe she trusts Travis. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think she probably did. I don't know. I. I just don't see a Taylor Swift or even like, if Beyonce and Jay Z were to get engaged.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If Beyonce and Jay Z were to get engaged right now, it would have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To be like, she would have to come get engaged.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If they were not married already right now. If they were to get at the height of their careers right now, is.

[Angela Yee]

Is Beyonce. But it's still Jay Z. It's still ways.

[DJ Envy]

Are you talking about.

[Angela Yee]

You can talking about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because she's super famous, she has to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look and give a certain thing in the attention horse. So you wouldn't have seen their engagement anyway.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hypothetically speaking, man.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he said, babe, let's go out to dinner. She's gonna get dressed to go out to dinner.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And you do that. You go out. The dinner look might not be the look you want in your wedding. I mean, your engagement announcement photos.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else we got, man?

[Lauren LaRosa]

But anyway, no, we have more. We got Letty with Mariah Carey and Tupac. We won't get into that as well.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Mariah Carey.

[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, I just wanted to say too, that Travis Kelsey Zach. Because people were trying to figure out when this happened because they don't think that it was something that was just a surprise. Travis Kelsey's dad did talk to a local news station and said that he'd actually, actually asked a week ago when they were going to announce it. So this happened about a week or two ago, potentially. We just found out though, and that was the same way they rolled out their relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's got a job to do. Taylor Swift is a big deal, so she's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So is Travis Cussy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taylor Swift is a big deal, so she's got to do the report.

[DJ Envy]

Five minutes on it, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're moving on now. Right? Y' all are angry up here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know why he coming at you like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mariah Carey. Let's go somewhere black. Yeah. Maybe not even happy. Where you want me to take you?

[DJ Envy]

This is good. All right, I'm messing with this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mariah Carey says she wish she had dated Tupac. Let's take a listen.

[Teyana Taylor]

There's a story of a young man that you saw driving in with the Rolls Royce.

[Commercial/Advertisement Voice]

And he says, hey, Mariah. And then that whole night, you were.

[Teyana Taylor]

Like, oh, my gosh, I feel like butterflies. Yes.

[Angela Yee]

More than butterflies.

[Teyana Taylor]

Tupac Shakur. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

He said it like, I'm alright.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I was like, he knows who I am.

[Teyana Taylor]

Would you have done a song with him?

[DJ Envy]

I know that, yes.

[Angela Yee]

I loved hip hop. I love the moments that we're talking about, especially. Hi, Mariah.

[Teyana Taylor]

It was a pretty major moment for me.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. To say the least.

[Teyana Taylor]

That would have been the power couple of all power couples. I'm telling you, Mariah like no one.

[Angela Yee]

I wish.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, she got the next best thing. Nicholas Scott Cannon. Okay, okay. One of the realest ever. Don't Even disrespect. Don't ever disrespect.

[Angela Yee]

Let's not even be a clown like that talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I heard Letty talking about they would have been such a power couple. As if Nick and Mariah weren't. Weren't. Okay, drop one of clues Bob's. But Nicholas Scott Cannon. Come on now.

[Angela Yee]

Get up and kill it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, I see what you did there.

[Angela Yee]

You know. Yo, I. I really could see that. And I think that would have been sexy. They could have been a power couple. I love me some TVAC and I love me some Mariah. That could have been a real sexy couple. Back in the day, between music and them just both being sex symbols and. But just being like sexy. Yeah, I could have saw that, baby. And I see why she said that.

[DJ Envy]

They said MC Mariah Carey was into that. Like she used to. She liked to go to the club. She liked. At one time there was rumor that she was dating Cameron and she like they said, that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell them, girl. Tell them.

[DJ Envy]

Cameron said it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boy, you be out here just spilling that tea.

[DJ Envy]

You know what?

[Angela Yee]

That's what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like somebody just blew up a Starbucks. You just let that tea just spill all over the place.

[DJ Envy]

Cameron talked about it before.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he has. He talked about it about it back in March.

[DJ Envy]

He said something about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So you keep going, girl.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm not, cuz I don't know what was said.

[Angela Yee]

It was Mariah liked them. She like them type of dudes. I like that.

[Teyana Taylor]

You know what?

[DJ Envy]

Let me shut up.

[Angela Yee]

That would have been a good balance. That would have been great balance.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think it would have been fire as well. But I was gonna say, first of all, shout out to Letty because salute to Letty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brown bag Morning show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Brown Bag Morning show. Shout out to them. This is what that clip was from. The full interview isn't posted yet, but I'm excited for the full. Yeah, but also, man, I wish I was around to just see Tupac in person because the way that the girls.

[Angela Yee]

Be busting up, man, we had Jasmine guy up here. She was talking about him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to the legend, Jasmine.

[Angela Yee]

God. And what with these women, it's been so many women that sat where you sat right there and was just talking about how he was back in the day oozing with the reminiscence period envy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got some stories.

[DJ Envy]

I'm out of my business. I don't mean I don't be knowing what be what was said, what wasn't said, what I seen, what I didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, I think it was for Pocket was the eyebrows. It's like the same thing with me.

[DJ Envy]

That's what you like about.

[Angela Yee]

All right, so what else we got? You what I say that it.

[DJ Envy]

That is.

[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

He's seeing some things I don't know. You need to correct that over there. What is that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody should have gave you some glasses the way you put that outfit together this morning. Okay, you got all these mix and match pieces.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, it's all that you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just was grabbing stuff this morning.

[Angela Yee]

On the bottom.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. That's a part of the design.

[Teyana Taylor]

Just a part of it. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Dang, I wish I knew.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me set her on fire. You know what?

[Carlos Miller]

A little.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me set your sweater on fire. Higher. And then send you out in the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Streets, baby, let me tell you, it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look like you stop dropping road.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Say that like HBCU students don't stop dropping rolls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's so crazy. Who the hell told you to set yourself up? Fashion.

[DJ Envy]

They got that if somebody's fine. Said this is fashion.

[Angela Yee]

All right, Go to the US Open air. Everybody who listens to the show gonna look at it and bust out laughing.

[DJ Envy]

Cause y' all try.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's okay when I. I'm representing y' all when I go there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you're not.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You representing burn victims. Oh, my God.

[Teyana Taylor]

At least that's a good time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

All right. When we come back, we got front page news, and then Tiana Taylor will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Carlos Miller]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody.

[Angela Yee]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the boy Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Teyana Taylor]

Hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey. All right.

[Morgan Wood]

So Illinois state and local leaders are telling President Trump to keep the National Guard out of Chicago. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said there's no reason for Trump to send troops to the city to fight crime, calling the move unconstitutional and un American. Now, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked the Trump administration to provide more funding for violence prevention. Let's take a listen to JB Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state.

[Carlos Miller]

To try and intimidate his political rivals.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a publicity stunt to invoke chaos and terror. The federal government should spend that money, money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yes.

[Morgan Wood]

So Governor Pritzker also urged residents in Illinois to protest peacefully if troops are deployed. Pritzker, Johnson and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raul said they are exploring all legal options should Trump deploy Guardsmen. The fiery speech came the same day Trump appeared to waver on whether he would send federal troops to Chicago, saying he may wait until he gets a request from Pritzker to do so. So meanwhile in New York, leaders are telling President Trump, we got this as he threatens to ramp up National Guard deployments. In New York City, Democrat led city's New York City Mayor Eric Adams is saying no thanks, but no thanks to National Guardsmen. Let's take a listen to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams and their comments regarding National Guard deployment.

[Teyana Taylor]

Mr. President, I can give you all the data you need to show that.

[DJ Envy]

Crime is down here in New York. We don't need National Guard. We have clearly shown that crime is under control.

[Morgan Wood]

And Trump, of course, has already has troops fighting crime in Washington, D.C. and now the president is talking about sending those troops to Chicago, Baltimore, New York City. Governor, New York Governor Kathy Hochul isn't waiting for Trump to move on New York City. She says she's spoken to him directly, telling him that she can give him all the data that he needs to see that crime is low, as we heard in the audience. And Mayor Adams is saying the same thing, while Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch politely told Attorney General Pam Bondi in a meeting on Monday that New York City doesn't need any extra help.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what happens when one of these cities need the National Guard for what the National Guard actually does? Like, you know, like a natural disaster or something. Like what? Like what happens in that case? Well, I'm sure they'll be being stretched in then, right?

[Morgan Wood]

It is a possibility, especially if the National Guard is coming from some of those red states where they have then been sent to Washington, D.C. so to the point of my governor, Maryland Governor West Moore, if you're sending everybody to D.C. then what are you going to do? Yeah, like you said, Charlemagne, then your National Guard troops will be a little thin in the areas where you are at home. If that means that, you know, Trump is trying to deploy them at home as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, yeah, it's hurricane season, you know, down south. I mean, it's hurricane season, period. But, you know.

[Morgan Wood]

All right, well, Governor Hochul and New York City Mayor Adams is also reacting to President Trump's executive Orders that would withhold federal funding to cities and states that do not end cashless bail. Hochul says since. Since she's since changed the bail reform law, allowing judges more discretion to keep dangerous suspects locked up, while Adams is a critic of bail reform, which was passed into law in New York in 2019. Let's take a listen to their comments.

[Teyana Taylor]

You know, he's just trying to throw gasoline on a fire. We don't need that. We got our own fires under control here. We do not need the federal government.

[DJ Envy]

We need to look at what we did with bail reform to make sure we didn't go too far in the wrong direction. New Yorkers must be safe, and those who are repeated offenders need to be held accountable.

[Morgan Wood]

So Hochul also accuses Trump of trying to. Oh, well, she said that. Throwing gasoline on the fire. But, yeah, that's essentially what's going on with Cash the Spell and how the leaders in New York feel in regards to that. We got time for one more. Y' all want to talk Cracker Bell? You see, they didn't stand ten toes on that. On that logo.

[DJ Envy]

Sure.

[Morgan Wood]

All right, so Cat Cracker Barrel is doing a 180 and ditching the new logo they've unveiled that they unveiled last week, and they got rid of it with the old man leaning on the barrel. So a lot of people, you know, it was very critical of that new logo. So the response was mostly negative. And late on Tuesday, the company issued a statement saying, our new logo is going away and our old timer will remain even. President Trump weighed in on the controversy, advising the restaurant Train to admit a mistake based on customer response.

[Teyana Taylor]

Now, if you could only just.

[Morgan Wood]

Just take your own advice, Mr. President. But, yeah, Cracker Barrel is said. You know, that new logo with the barrel on the side, that's not really a barrel and a very minimal font and text is. Yeah, it's out the window. And we're gonna. They gonna bring back that good old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Didn't you say. Who was that?

[Morgan Wood]

That said bring I want my racism right in front of me. Somebody I don't know.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, but who. Who is the old man, though?

[Morgan Wood]

That part I do not know, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'S a good question.

[Morgan Wood]

Very, very upset, you know, up with the fact that he was removed from that logo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they keep calling that man a cracker.

[Morgan Wood]

Well, it is Cracker Barrel, so I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mean Cracker Barrel, not Cracker Barrel, you know.

[Morgan Wood]

No, no hard ers on that.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no hard K A. And they keep calling that man a cracker, though. I bring the cracker back. Like, damn.

[Angela Yee]

Damn. Nah, I ain't know that because that's. That took me back to when they removed Aunt Jemima off the. You know what I'm saying? Off the syrup. She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

It don't feel right.

[Angela Yee]

It don't feel like now it's Pearl Millen.

[DJ Envy]

Like, I don't like it either.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I use Patti LaBelle pancake mix anyway.

[Angela Yee]

Okay. That's nice.

[Teyana Taylor]

Oh, okay. Yeah, she'd be having some stuff.

[Morgan Wood]

Dan Evans is the guy. He's the Cracker Barrel guy is referred to. Dan Evans. He's the founder, apparently, of the Old Country Store and opened the first location in 1969 in Lebanon, Tennessee. So he's the one that's leaning up against the barrel and the Cracker Barrel logo. All right, Daniel, man.

[Teyana Taylor]

Welcome back.

[Morgan Wood]

That's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media and for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail]. thank y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Teyana Taylor]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren laros is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

The bully is back.

[Angela Yee]

Back, period.

[DJ Envy]

She hasn't cursed me out in about a month.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tiana Taylor, she is a very nice person who just knows what she wants.

[Teyana Taylor]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, she came in the room and literally turned into Spike T and started to change the camera angle. I don't think that makes her a bully.

[Teyana Taylor]

Okay, exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Makes you a boss.

[DJ Envy]

But she ain't cursed you out recently.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you couldn't talk. I thought you couldn't talk, Tiana.

[Teyana Taylor]

I still can't.

[Angela Yee]

That's why she can't be that last.

[Teyana Taylor]

See, that's what I'm saying. I need. We need all the tones to be down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you.

[Teyana Taylor]

You know, I wanted to see y'.

[Angela Yee]

All.

[Teyana Taylor]

I felt bad seeing everybody else and not seeing y'. All.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Teyana Taylor]

But, bitch, don't try to impress me.

[DJ Envy]

Because first of all, this is the way you press her. Cause she can't talk back.

[Angela Yee]

Press her. Yeah, yeah.

[Teyana Taylor]

Cause y' all and want to be up at 9:00 in the morning, and I just landed and I was like, okay, yeah, this is not going to happen. But I wanted to be able to fully be able to, you know, just chill and hang with y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Teyana Taylor]

Cause y' all like my family. So I didn't want to see anything that was rushed. Thank you.

[Angela Yee]

Hell, yeah. We escape room.

[Teyana Taylor]

I'm taking it. I'm taking it easy. My doctor said I can talk because you don't have to do all my autograph signings and stuff. But she's just like, take it easy, you know? So.

[DJ Envy]

So for those that don't know, why did you need the surgery? What happened? Break that down of what exactly happened?

[Teyana Taylor]

So I had polyps on my vocal cords, and it was actually really, really bad. It looked like a pearl just sitting on my. Like, my vocal cords didn't even close, so it was like air going down my vocal cords. And that was kind of like what it was. So if you notice, even last week how gone my voice was, and it had been happening for a while, but I just thought, okay, it's cold. I don't like being cold. So anytime it's, like, cold, I think I'm like, maybe I'm just sick or something. But I don't really get sick like that. So when I was recording the album, I'm like, why is this so hard? Like, maybe it's the pain. You know what I'm saying? It's like, maybe I'm just singing my heart out and it's the pain. It's like, no, bitch. My vocal cords is, like, really struggling, you know? And I think in the midst of, like, recording and then dealing with personal life and, like, it's going to be a lot of hurt, a lot of trauma to the vocal cords. You know what I'm saying? So I think doing both at the same time was. Was a lot.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When you heard that from your doctor, how scared were you or, like, how nervous were you about, like, what was to come next?

[Teyana Taylor]

I mean, I was so scared because, you know, getting a surgery, you know, literally two weeks before your album drop is like, okay. So really, a week before the album drop, I'm like, okay, okay. What am I gonna do? First of all? Second of all, if I don't do it now, I'm not gonna be able to. I'm have to do it later, and I'm not gonna be able to tour. So it's like, do I do it now and shut my ass up throughout this album and just get creative and do, like, silent promo or, like, wait and then not be able to go on tour, which I already knew once the album dropped, my supporters wasn't rolling with me not going on tour. And, you know, I had the movie one battle after another. Then I got all's fair. Then I Got rip, you know, Ben and Matt. So it's just like to. I can't be on like a worldwide press tour for a movie and not be able to speak. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, this is really the only real time the album is done. Let the album speak for itself and just do what I can. And that's why I rushed to New York. So, you know, doing all that press in New York, that was in the span of a day and a half. And you know, I still had the listening parties with my, my, my day one fans. So. So I had to knock out a lot in a day and a half.

[DJ Envy]

And what was the reason? Did they say what the reason was? Do they know? Was it.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, just trauma to the vocal cords. But that's something that it takes like, that takes overtime over time to build, you know. So they had to surgically go in there and get that out because she's like, I can give you steroids, but it's not gonna help. It's only gonna be 30%. You know, you're not even a screamer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even when you sing. It's not like you like you like.

[Teyana Taylor]

Trying to the vocal cords because it's like you still have. Look at 1001. Look at at all the heavy roles I have to do. You know what I'm saying? I have to do heavy roles. And then you already know a bitch got a deep voice. So it's just like I gotta cry. But it's like even though I don't yell, I do have a deep ass voice. And even just being from New York, we naturally talk loud. So imagine just being passionate and like being in an emotional state and crying out loud and just, you know, it takes a lot of that. Look what I've been through. And just even with the album and just with, you know, my past experiences in music, I've had a lot to. To. To cry about. Had a lot to scream about. Kids.

[Angela Yee]

I know, baby sit your head and what you doing and shut up.

[Teyana Taylor]

You know what's crazy? And I'm like Adam Sandler. Like with my children, they don't take me serious. Yeah. Like I. Because to see movies and then to have your own little people that do the things that you see in the movie when you was growing up. It's funny. I don't take nothing serious. So I. It's never really like I don't have that. That's not the dynamic me and my children have. And honestly, all I got to do is make a face like I mean, they are so disappointed to know that they hurt my feelings. You know what I'm saying? So I don't even have to scream at them.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why I understand why y' all always telling me to grow up. Because you don't take nothing serious. You don't always want to tell me. You know why?

[Teyana Taylor]

You know why? Because I play a lot, but I'm also an empath. You play when it ain't the time to play, when it ain't the time, all the time. You know why? Because you are such an iconic boy voice. You have to understand that your joke. People don't know how you play.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[Teyana Taylor]

People don't know how you play. So then what you say is like, yeah. Cause even Charlotte. And it's just like, that's why your phone be getting called, getting cursed out because your ass. And it's crazy because even when we on the phone personally, he plays like that. But it's like he's like, but, Nati, I feel you. But it's like the world don't know our dynamic. The world don't know his personality. You got to know Charlamagne to know that he'll roast you all day, but, like, love you so hard. You feel what I'm saying? But it's just like everybody don't know that. So it's like when you are playing with people's lives and, you know, not funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[Teyana Taylor]

You know, I really do apologize.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you. Man, knock it off. I really do love what your daughter said at the end of the album. And it's interesting because you never really know what somebody is going through. Like, when was the moment that you. That you bounced back from everything you was to going. Going through.

[DJ Envy]

You bounce back.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, honestly, I did. I. If you notice, like, you know, the album is recorded in order, you know, like the first half. Well, the first three songs is a song. Then the next three songs is a song. You see, we go from, like, heartbreak to, like, you already know that after heartbreak, that, like, rebound stage where it's like, I just wanna. I don't wanna be in love. I just wanna feel. I just wanna feel something. Make me forget all I don't wanna talk about. I just wanna feel something. Then that next stage of, like, hold on, feelings is tingling a little bit. Going on this one on my bingo card. You know what I'm saying? And then, you know, you start to just say, okay, well, we're here now. Like, let's. Let's. Let's Throw the bricks away. Not walk around with bricks to build the wall. Like, I'm just gonna love fully allow myself to do that. And then it's just like once you find that person that help you through that, now it's time. Of course you always want to do the self work, but like, when you are being like, handled a certain way, it just makes you look. Look at everything. Like Junie said, you. You shine a little brighter. You know, the spark in your eye is back and different things like that. So sometimes you just need that inspiration to get back up. So I was recording in. In real time.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I was recording. And the short film shows that. Yeah, it shows. It tells that story, right? Like, it. It starts off and. And shout out to Lakeith Stanfield, oh.

[Teyana Taylor]

My God, they killed it.

[Angela Yee]

I'm married. I can't be doing all that. But yeah, shout out to him. And then also all the m. The monologues, right? Did you write every.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, yeah, me. Me and my partner Coco, you know, we got our production company, the auntie's production, and. And we actually wrote this first, like in real time. I'm like, this is how I want it to go. So I seen a few people, like, complaining about the. The narration. Like, oh, it's just too much. But it's also because my visual drop late. So it was like, it was. This was always a visual album for me first. However, I'm not complaining. That's a good complaint to have because, you know, people don't really give me a chance in the music space, you know, so it feels good to see people like, oh, well, the song is too short. Or the narration is like.

[Angela Yee]

It's just.

[Teyana Taylor]

But it even has a minority, you know what I'm saying? Like the number one R B right now. Like, yeah, top 10 overall. And it's just like it feels good to be seen and heard in that space. And, you know, it feels good that people are appreciating the movie. Like, people's like, you know what? I listened to the album first, and then when I went to see the movie, it was like, oh, bitch, I gotta run this album back. You know what I'm saying? So sometimes it's because it's an experience. It's a cinematic album, and it was always meant to be that way.

[DJ Envy]

We're still kicking it with Teyana Taylor. How difficult was it doing this project? Because you. I've known you a long time and your personal life and outside of music is very quiet. You keep to yourself. But in the last couple of years, Your life is bound there. Now this album is. Is your life. How difficult was that, doing that part, sharing your life with the world?

[Teyana Taylor]

Y' all know how difficult it was for me because, you know, I am a quiet person and I'm private just because I've had shows and stuff like that. I mean, I'm not a private person. I share what I want to share. I've been up here a few times where, you know, I was already dealing with what I was dealing with, and nobody ever even knew, you know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

The last time you held it down, because you do all that, it came out like a week after, and you. You was.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I held it down. And people get tired, especially when, like, others are banking on your heart when they know your heart and they know the things that is. They're gonna keep poking at that, you know what I'm saying? And sometime you. You bite the bait, and it is what it is, you know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

How are the kids dealing with it?

[Teyana Taylor]

It's very tough. And that's why I try my best to, you know, just be as cordial as possible. Like, I don't be wanting no smoke, you know what I'm saying? These kids come first. And that's been the main reason why I've wanted to keep everything private. No matter how ugly or how sweet, keep it. Keep it private.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Teyana Taylor]

You know what I'm saying? So my job is to protect them no matter what. And I think that's where like, I keep, you know, just trying to hold on and. And hold it down. But I think this album was a beautiful way to express myself and, yeah, just. Just move forward. Just continue to move forward.

[Angela Yee]

What I noticed was, like, you've had a lot this year, right? Four movies, four in the album. And then your visual and then your performance at the BET Awards. It was a lot of press surrounding you, and I've seen you on. On this outlet. This outlet, that outlet, right? And it just seems like it's a pattern, right? Every time something drops, drops with Teyana is in the headlines. Oh, this movie, that movie, right? It seems that it's always something that is dropped on Iman's side, right? Where it's like, oh, but this happened. And something about the court or something about the divorce, right? Almost every single time one of your.

[Teyana Taylor]

Athletes, every single time is celebrated for something, but that was a part of the bait that I bit. And. And I hate to even have to talk about this, and I don't want to make this a long thing, but, you know, that's even why I hopped on live, because it's just like, y' all know how quiet I am. And even when the other party be dead ass wrong, I'm still defending, protecting all of the things. Because we have a daughter on social media, and I don't ever want to be anywhere speaking down on somebody, but people get tired.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Teyana Taylor]

At this point, Junie, when you get older and you want to ask that question, I'm just going to have to break it down, baby, because I'm not about to keep being played with. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not about to keep doing that just on the strength of, oh, Tiana hates social media. So let me poke on social media because I know she's not gonna say nothing. I think that the live really, like, woke is up, like, oh. You know what I'm saying? Because I would never do nothing like that. You feel me? So it's just like, come on, this is crazy. Because even with that, it's just like, I'm sitting here defending some that came out a year ago, but when it came out, remember I did Vogue World that was going crazy, so it didn't say stick. Then I do. I post a picture on Oscar weekend, the same rumor comes out, but now it's, like, really hitting differently because it's assumed that I moved on. Like, oh, she moved on, but, yo, she took this person for everything. And it's just like, now I'm being called out my name. Like, I. I'm like, wait, what was. And then I'm. I took this, I took that. I'm like, wait, what?

[Angela Yee]

I'm.

[Teyana Taylor]

I'm confused.

[Angela Yee]

You know, it just seemed like you had to Pay. Pay a $70,000 bill for you defending yourself.

[Teyana Taylor]

And it was the best little coin I ever spent. I mean it. But when I say I want to get put through the Bachelor's in peace.

[Angela Yee]

I said, listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'S what it is right there.

[Teyana Taylor]

That's what it is right there. It wasn't even the technical stuff. It wasn't even the technical stuff.

[Angela Yee]

Why you trying to talk softly?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It just feel like you have to, right? It's just the energy right now. It's what you mentioned, Junie. What questions? Or has she actually questions yet? Or, like, what questions is she beginning to ask?

[Teyana Taylor]

I mean, no, she hadn't asked questions because I've been holding it down. What I was saying was, like, I feel like because the people in my life know that my children Come first, right? And that I don't like social media. Like, my social media anxiety is through the roof. Imagine, like, dragging it to the point where I'm, like, forcing to do the thing that scares me the most. So even being on live, having to speak my truth, not just my truth, but the truth, really, it hurt me to have to do that. And it hurt me to have to do that because I reached out to that person before I even had to do that. You feel what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was the response?

[Teyana Taylor]

The reason why I went online was because, well, I've been protecting you by staying quiet. Quiet. And I'm like, well, that's what I mean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like what Jess was talking about. When you go to him and you say, look, man, I guess I'm not accusing you, but every time I got some good coming out.

[Teyana Taylor]

Oh, no, I'm even better. I thought we were on. We were on great terms. So I was like, hey, baby daddy. Because we was going to say, baby daddy, baby mom. So I'm like, hey, baby daddy. So something's coming back to me that, you know, you and your people is sending out stuff I said, but it's really hard to believe that because we're in a really great space. And I kept saying that, like, we're in a really, really great space. So I don't see what your angle would be on top of the fact that, you know, that was being put out is not true. And he's like, oh, nah, I thought it was you. So then that's when I was like, well, what would I gain out of looking like, I took a black man for all he got when, you know, I spent my heart earned money on the things that I have and you too, like, you know, what's up? And then he brought up some breakup from, like, some. Well, when you did it, I. Back in 20, huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

How did we.

[Teyana Taylor]

How did we get here? You feel what I'm saying? So then he was like, the only part I'm mad about is that they didn't show. Boom, boom, boom. And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, I know where we stand. Because why you mad about what part they did? There's something special about folks that come through without being asked. Like your co worker surprising you with your favorite coffee just because. Or your friend handing you the ox cord the moment you get in the car. No debate, no fight, just positive vibe.

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[Morgan Wood]

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[Teyana Taylor]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Teyana Taylor]

It's just handled. It's like the universe saying I got you. Except this time it's not the stars.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Teyana Taylor]

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[Teyana Taylor]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Teyana Taylor]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Teyana Taylor]

Show, which means that who sent it? But with all the movies I got coming up and it's just like even being in this business where divorce gets ugly, you think I want to be working with a producer that's holding a vendetta against me because he like, well, my wife did the same thing. I'm not, I'm not doing that. And especially when you got to see certain money leave your accounts, like, I know exactly what I paid for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That could affect you in Hollywood too because you know, these film people are like, you feel me? It's always drama every time we announce something.

[Teyana Taylor]

But what did I say when I went all up? I just wanted to be left alone. So even with the seventy thousand dollar thing, I didn't, I wasn't held in contempt for what I did. So them saying the whole iman had direct evidence. The only evidence was me going live. You feel what I'm saying? If we really keeping it being, they were very technical. And this part is not this last court date, it was not sealed. But let's look at the, at the pattern. We went to court July 25. This thing about me paying him $70,000 or his lawyer $70,000 came out a week before my drama drop. This is when Hard Part came out with Joe and Jada and, and the song was going viral and everybody was like, yo, this song is fire. Now five minutes later, Tiana is ordered. She's held in contempt. So now I was looking like, also she went on live and lied and it's like, no, it was technicality. Keep in mind, I only went on live to defend a skit that he did. Yeah, so you did a skit. But then they pretty much said in Court. Yeah, this. The skit was back in June. The skit, it was a few weeks after the divorce. So then it was kind of like his lawyers argued that. Well, the person in the video said it. First of all, his lawyer didn't even want to admit that the person in the video stated an amount of money that was being paid. Right. But then once he got caught up in that and Iman admitted that the person did say that, then he was like, what? Didn't come from Iman's mouth directly. So you're. Your. Your evidence pretty much is objected. And then I had a witness who came with actual receipts that they were being paid to have a smear campaign against me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Teyana Taylor]

You feel me talk about this now that. This is not sealed. Oh, it's. This is not sealed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Teyana Taylor]

The only thing I got in trouble for was when we went into details.

[Angela Yee]

About what you get.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah. And stuff like that. You feel what I'm saying? However, again, what I stand on, and you already know, I do have a strong male fan base as well. You know what I'm saying? And it was a lot of men that were really hurt thinking that I did this to another black man. I'm not rolling with that, which I had a majority of people that's like, yeah, she deserved. Like, she deserve it. Get your coin, sis. And it's like, I could have just rolled that wave, but I'm not okay with that because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

[DJ Envy]

We're still kicking it with Teyana Taylor Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's so interesting about. I just. I'm listening to you talk and I can hear the freedom. So it's like, damn, you really did escape. Like, this is like a whole new chapter for you. You know, it's not a temporary chapter with Escape From. It's like a whole chapter of freedom now.

[Teyana Taylor]

And that's why you see, like, I know people because it was a lot to take in. People didn't. Some people. Well, some of the few that I seen didn't get the chance to finish the album. So they like, oh, yeah, her album. Oh, my God. It's like, I gotta be in that space. And it's like, no, baby, you gotta be in that space to be able to receive it, to move on to the next level. But because the first, what, three songs you're in that. You're in that heartbreak. But then after that third song, after. After Tasha Smith coming in with the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

New memories, the whole energy changed.

[Teyana Taylor]

The whole energy changed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It felt like at that point, you had got to a point where you was like, I'm not being sad no more. I'm Tiana Taylor. I'm going outside. I'll be cute.

[Teyana Taylor]

Exactly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is that where you were?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why it's called Back to Life.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, that's where I was. Because, again, even before it was ever public, I was still protecting something that had vanished a long time ago. You feel what I'm saying? I was still holding it down, and I was still, you know, doing that. So it's kind of like now it's like, nah. Like, oh, you taking my kindness for weakness. Like, we can't. We can't do that. So when you get to. In your skin and always with Juni, I'm in a whole nother space, you know what I'm saying? And I never thought I'd be so excited to spend $70,000 in my life. No, for real. But it was a weight off my shoulders, you know what I'm saying? It was. Was like, if. Here you go, baby. Here you go, and here you go. Because I'm gonna get that back, tinfo. You feel what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This album was also a love letter to Aaron.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Once you get the. But like you said, Back to Life, you feel like you're giving yourself permission to love again.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, I'm giving myself the permission to love unarmored, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But another thing on that, Diana, you can't just let the. Unarmored.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, yeah. I think that, you know, when we're guarded, what do we guard ourselves with? We have all this gear. We have all this army gear.

[Angela Yee]

We have. We in 300, always.

[Teyana Taylor]

We got the little shields and always on defense, you feel what I'm saying? And that's not, like, where I am, because I'm a lover, you know what I'm saying? I love love. So I go into things like prideless and egoless and, you know, like, just full of, like, I do want a fairy tale. And it's like, people joke on me because. People joke on me because my wife.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell her I love her, man. You should do the same. I did already.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah. But it's like, you know, people. Y' all all have watched me grow up, so I think a lot of times people get stuck with little Tiana, you know what I'm saying? And not realizing that I'm not this aggressive, rah, rah, rah person that people think that I am, you know what I'm saying? I wouldn't have been a wife for 10 years. If I was there, that. Let's be clear. You feel what I'm saying? Like, so it's just like, for me, I love love, and I love to nurture, and I love to give. And as you can see, with my mom and my aunts, I've grown up around. That's my. That's my muscle memory. I've watched my. The women in my life take care of their men, protect their marriage, protect their union, protect their tribe, protect their home. So that's all I knew. So I don't know about pride and ego and stuff like that. So it's just like, you know, with me, the moment I was dead in that I needed that freedom to fully love again, But I knew that when I started loving again, that I wouldn't be guarded. Me even trying to be tough in the album where I'm like, she closed her heart and opened her legs. It was just like, that's all. Tell me you love me. You don't have to meet it now.

[Angela Yee]

Tell me you love me.

[Teyana Taylor]

So it's like, if y' all really getting into, like, what these interludes are saying is telling the story of. Even when I tried to be guarded, I still was a little. I was a little.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just said, come over here. And me, I want him.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, right now.

[Teyana Taylor]

But because I don't know how to date, you notice, the majority of my career, I've been married with, you know, children. I don't know how to date. So it's like all or nothing for me. So it's like we all the way go together, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the other thing, I've always said this about you people, have. You haven't even. I still don't think you scratched the surface.

[DJ Envy]

Nope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that one day we going to look up and be like, God damn, Tiana just directed that movie that made $300 million. Like, I really see that for you. Like, you are a visionary in a whole lot of different ways.

[Teyana Taylor]

So much.

[Angela Yee]

And you make things work that I never thought could work, because I never thought I would hear Tyler on a song with Jill Scott, beat the three little ass pumps. Bump, bump, bump.

[DJ Envy]

And not.

[Angela Yee]

It was like a. It was a vibe. That's the something. I can smoke a blunt, too.

[Teyana Taylor]

Put your moom on, you know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

And then let them say this.

[Caller/Listener]

Boom, boom, you know?

[Teyana Taylor]

But I think that that's like the director in me, you know what I'm saying? Like, I. I could see the aesthetic of something and understanding the two voices together.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Teyana Taylor]

You feel what I'm saying understanding where Jill come in. Like I had the whole vision. This is what I need. This is what I need. I said, jill, I need you. I need you to talk that breakfast, lunch, dinner. Then she came with her.

[Caller/Listener]

Her.

[Teyana Taylor]

Her spoken word killed that. You know what I'm saying? Like she. She wrote that herself. Yeah, I just gave her guidance on what I wanted it to be talked about. I'm like, girl, I want breakfast, lunch, D. I need. And Jill just came and bited it. You know what I'm saying? Easy Ray is another one. I just like. Oh. You could tell which ones was like freestyle.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gina King too. That was major.

[Teyana Taylor]

So like the big ones are the ones like their actual like monologues are the ones that me and Coco Ro world. But like Isa Tasha. Like the more freestyle ones was more so the ones of like me just giving them guidance and saying hey, like this could. This could be a safe space like that. Those took conversation.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Teyana Taylor]

You feel what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Smith whispering. How the hell nobody make. Tasha whispering.

[Teyana Taylor]

Way to get over one is to get another one. Yeah, she definitely was. That was as soft as I. I heard her. I heard her talk. But it's just like those other ones were important. And it's crazy cuz it was very intentional too. When I wrote that last poem for Regina, I knew that it was for Regina. You feel what I'm saying? When I wrote the one for Carrie, I knew that was for Carrie. Sarah Polson. I knew that was for Sarah Polson. I knew what I wanted it to be like, like this. This tour is going to be so crazy. It's going to be so crazy. Yeah. So I'm, I'm excited.

[Angela Yee]

Maybe my voice and make it on.

[Teyana Taylor]

To the next album I got you. You know I'm doing the deluxe.

[Angela Yee]

Good.

[Teyana Taylor]

I'm doing. I'm. It's getting crazy. You said, you know, we both got deep voices.

[Angela Yee]

I don't be talking that song.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah, no, I think. I think just gonna be like, yo dead ass, make this poom Poom Jump.

[Angela Yee]

Jump.

[Teyana Taylor]

Well, since we keep talking about poom jump, should we go to poom jump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Or hard part that.

[Angela Yee]

That, that album Hard part with her and Lucky Day. That reminds me of like a, a A Brandy. Like so like the little runs with the. It just gives me a back in the day Brandy feel like that's so fire to me.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get into it.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

We appreciate you for joining us. Ladies and gentlemen, Tiana Taylor. Thank you so much. I wouldn't even FaceTime because I feel like she be doing sign language to curse.

[Teyana Taylor]

Thank you so much for joining us.

[Angela Yee]

I love y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Teyana Taylor]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Album is out right now. Escape Room. Make sure you get it, make sure you download it, make sure you stream it.

[Teyana Taylor]

And a short film on YouTube and Amazon Prime.

[DJ Envy]

Alrighty. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Justin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Escape Room. Go hard. You know what I mean? And you know, I love the conversation we just had because it adds context to the album, especially if you've already heard the album.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. It makes you. I feel like going back and listening to it again after that interview makes you really feel her.

[DJ Envy]

The album is dope. The album. If you listen to the album, the album is dope. Take the label politics and the BS out, but the music, yeah, is dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Imagine if Mary J. Blige could have just had a conversation with us about everything she was going through while life was out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, it would be fire to see Mary J. Blige sit down with Tiana when you made that comparison with that being her, my life, I feel like that would be such good content, y'.

[Teyana Taylor]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Should Dante produce that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree, but Mary would have to know the context to the album, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, but that's why the conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, the conversation she just had will give a lot of context.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[Angela Yee]

Like I said, I want to see this. This album, this whole thing on Broadway. Like, Tiana is very. She's a creative and she's very much like she. She. Her visuals for the album, her whole little short movie is dope. So I think that this is something that I would pay to see on On Broadway. It's more of a production style album.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think there's nothing Tiana Taylor can't do.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Angela Yee]

Soundtrack for sure.

[Caller/Listener]

So.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. All right, well, let's get to the latest for Lauren.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren becoming a straight thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Teyana Taylor]

Everything and everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on this.

[Carlos Miller]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything.

[Carlos Miller]

Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Caller/Listener]

Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, y'. All. So after Lil Nas X pled not guilty to those felony charges, including battery on a alleged battery with injury on police officer, one felony counter resisting, another officer ran down the street at 4am naked, said he's not on drugs. All the things, all the drama that we've just Been talking about these last couple days. He has finally broken his silence after returning home and posting that 75k bell. Let's take a listen to Lil Nas X.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your girl is gonna be okay, y'.

[Teyana Taylor]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Who's the girl?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's gonna be all right. She's gonna be all right.

[Angela Yee]

Him. Oh, him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was terrifying. That was terrifying. That was a terrifying last four days. But your girl is going to be all right.

[Angela Yee]

Him, he's talking about himself. But he said, yeah, you know how to get something. Refer themselves as gw Whatever.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I get you. Whatever.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trying to act like he don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I did know cuz he said the girl. I thought it was. I thought he was the judge or maybe his mom's. When he said the girl, I was confused. I'm just ask for clarity.

[Angela Yee]

Talking about his little self.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

He call himself a girl over there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sitting on that beige. Talking about he don't know what the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Girl sit on that beige.

[Teyana Taylor]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

What is wrong with you, man?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, yeah, so that, that's all we got so far from Lil Nas X on this. But I really. Y' all know I've been in here like. But wait, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Teyana Taylor]

But wait.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't like that video. I felt like the tone of the video was very like jokey, jokey playful. And this was so serious. Like literally.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We played an audio yesterday of a 911. There's was allegedly a taser used. You ran that taser?

[Angela Yee]

Somebody need to send his ass to Scared Streak. You remember that show?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I remember that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all stay threatening Lil Nas X with a good time. Can't nothing scan. That's great. I like girls now. I like girls.

[Angela Yee]

Golly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody scanned a gay man scrape. For real?

[Angela Yee]

Uhuh.

[DJ Envy]

You stupid.

[Caller/Listener]

Ma'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Am.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, we don't have time because we got some audios. But in the next hour we're going to be. Y' all talking about next hour. We're gonna be taking it to court. Cardi B is in court and they're talking about wigs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just saw that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's an old case. It's from years ago, back when she was pregnant with culture. But the listen, the dialogue on the stand with Cardi B is hilarious. We gonna get into.

[Angela Yee]

I know she funny in court.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh baby.

[Angela Yee]

In everyday life. So I know she funny.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. So we'll. We'll be back in the next hour forward with that.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Charlemagne, who you giving your donkey too?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I'm conflicted about this donkey, man, because There's a guy named Robert Monet and his fiance Melissa Guerrero. And it's Guerrero.

[Angela Yee]

Guerrero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And he shot his fiance, so it should be an easy donkey. Right. But I'll tell you the story four after that.

[Teyana Taylor]

Why he didn't tell us that before we left. My God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

I guess we're not gonna play a game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Funny is funny.

[Angela Yee]

Before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

After that, we'll talk. I didn't think it was funny because.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up.

[Carlos Miller]

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

[Teyana Taylor]

Bam. The he haw again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for Donkey of the Day.

[Teyana Taylor]

I ain't trying to be donkey today no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things called donkey of the day. And it really caught me off guard.

[Angela Yee]

Damn Charlemagne. Who got the donkey of the day today?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, just hilarious. Donkey today for Wednesday, August 27th. We make sure it's the 27th. Yes, it's the 27th. Goes to Robert, Monique, and his fiance, Melissa. How you say it? Guerrera.

[Teyana Taylor]

Guerrero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm conflicted. If both of them should get it, I'll explain. Now, who is Robert Monet? He is a man who shot his fiance in the face at Olive Garden. Okay, let me explain something to you. When a person you love is displaying something, signs of mental illness believed him. Okay, we don't have enough conversations about the people who have to deal with people who deal with mental illness. Melissa is one of those people. We always talk about the person who is mentally ill, but what about the people who love them? See, Melissa got shot in the face, but she doesn't believe her fiance intentionally shot her in the face. He was actually in court saying she still loves him, and I'm sure she does. Now, Robert's lawyer said it was an accident. Well, what happened exactly? Well, Robert and Melissa were out to eat at Olive Garden.

[Caller/Listener]

Garden.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Enjoying those unlimited breadsticks. They plan to go shopping for an upcoming trip to Texas. But Robert was also scheduled to have a mental evaluation at my Michigan Medical Center. Okay. Melissa said that before the shooting, Robert had been acting dazed for about five days, so Melissa asked him to get mentally evaluated. Good for Melissa. Man. Round of applause for Melissa.

[Morgan Wood]

Man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, I got a lot of friends who are women who say they don't want to date any man who hasn't done any. Any, you know, type of work on himself. So if she suspected he needed a mental evaluation, it's good that she said something and great that he agreed to get one. Well, according to Melissa's testimony, they sat in the Olive Garden. Okay. Enjoying those unlimited breadsticks, as I said. Okay. When Robert suspected that Melissa's ex husband, who was previously imprisoned for assault, was in the parking lot and was planning to hurt him. So Robert dialed 911 and was ready to hit sin in anticipation that he would need a police response. He knew he was about to act up. Now, Melissa said her ex husband and Robert got along fine. She also said prior to the shooting, her and Robert weren't arguing. She also doesn't even remember Robert shooting her. In fact, she said she didn't even know Robert had a gun. But what makes this even scarier is after Robert shot her, he kept saying, this stupid deserves to die over and over and over. That's what witnesses said. He kept saying it over and over. And then he also pistol whipped his fiance as well. Well, now, when police came and tried to subdue Robert, he kept yelling his name was Satan and they had to tase him six times. He shot his fiance, pistol whipped her, fought the cops in Olive Garden. Okay, they tased him six times, but he's still alive. Guess what Racy is. Now his defense is arguing it was all an accident. And Robert was dazed. And his fiance still believes he's not capable of harming her. Let me tell you you something. As long as he's dealing with whatever mental illness he's dealing with, sorry, boo. He's capable of hurting you. Okay? You, Melissa, know this man is dealing with mental health issues. So no matter how much you love him, you gotta run for your life. Okay? You tried to help him. He hurts you before he could get the help. By the grace of God, you are still alive. You are still here. Not to mention, when would y' all be together? He's facing life in prison. He rejected a plea deal that would have assured him 13 to 30 years. Now he's facing life. So once again, when would y' all ever be together? Look, I understand love is blind, but it doesn't have to be deaf and dumb too. Okay, so Robert is clearly dealing with mental health issues. That's been established. And Melissa clearly loves Robert. That has been established. Even after being shot, she's in court saying how much she still loves him. But you still gotta know when to walk away, don't you? Melissa, I commend you for all you have attempted to do for Robert. But please, please, people always remember, don't hurt yourself trying to help someone else. Because you can easily and I mean, easily cut yourself on another person's broken pieces. Please give Robert Monet and his fiance Melissa Guerrero the biggest he. Huh?

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're giving it to both. You think they should get both?

[Angela Yee]

Ah, he not even in his right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mind because he's mentally ill. That's what I'm saying.

[Angela Yee]

That's what I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He ain't in his right mind.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, obviously.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then she still loves him and is making excuses for him even after the fact.

[Angela Yee]

She love him. Yo, and she obviously needs an exorcist and some other things, but, like, you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Need a therapist and an exorcist.

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And some medication.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So I guess the question we can open up the phone lines is when do you leave? When is it over? Like, this should have been over.

[Angela Yee]

You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

But. 800-58151. And it even comes from the earlier interview with Teanna to Taylor when she was talking about Iman Shumpert and she tried to make it work and, you know, she felt like she was disrespected and she let so many things go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She talks about it so much on album.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we have a clip of it.

[Teyana Taylor]

People get tired, especially when, like, others are banking on your heart when they know your heart and they know the things that is, they're gonna keep poking at that, you know what I'm saying? And sometime you. You bite the bait. And it is what it is, you know what I'm saying? All the kids dealing with it, it's very tough. And that's why I try my best to, you know, just be as cordial as possible. Like, I don't be wanting no smoke, you know what I'm saying? These kids come first. And that's been the main reason why I've wanted to keep everything private. No matter how ugly or how sweet, keep it private, you know what I'm saying? So my job is to protect them no matter what. And I think that's where I keep just trying to hold on and hold it. It down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you can't cut yourself on another person's broken pieces trying to fix them.

[DJ Envy]

Correct. So that is the question. 800-585-1051. I think we're now saying, you know, don't give somebody a chance or don't give somebody grace. But it's like, when do you get to the point where it's like they take kindness for weakness and it's too much.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, great. No more grace. When you say no more grace.

[DJ Envy]

When they say no more grace, think of yourself. But people have to change. They have to work on themselves.

[Angela Yee]

Fight by yourself.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you end up hurt. Look at Melissa. Melissa got, got shot. You know what I mean? Knowing her man needed some type of mental evaluation seeing that this man was going through something, but she still was trying to stick it out and still loves him right now because I know.

[Angela Yee]

He not in his right mind.

[DJ Envy]

So let's, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Because we always say, well, what's the best apology? Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's changed behavior.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So let's talk about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What about it? When you, it's kind of hard to change your behavior because you actually need help. You need medication. Right. You need medical help to change your behavior.

[DJ Envy]

So let's talk about it. 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning. Pull out your, pull out your phone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call in right now. Call me.

[Carlos Miller]

Add your opinion to the Breakfast Club topic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Break it down. 800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club.

[Carlos Miller]

If y' all talking, you know we talking about it. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

That was back to life. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne. The guy we are the Breakfast Club. That was Teyana Taylor. Now we're taking your calls about when is it the time to leave? Right. If you're married, you're in a relationship, you tried everything, you exhaust everything. But when do you finally say enough is enough. All right, we got Michelle on the line. Michelle, good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. How are you guys this morning?

[DJ Envy]

I'm blessed.

[Angela Yee]

Hey, girl.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Caller/Listener]

My thoughts is I was married for 20 years and just like Tiana said, when you have exhausted everything.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Caller/Listener]

I mean, I was really. When we first got married, we was together, engaged and married in less than three months. And we was like, it work. It work. It don't. It don't. And we stayed married for 20 years. And when I said, people used to tell me that they were jealous of the way how I treated him and how he treated me. But when you look back on it, it was all up front, you know, I'm pretty sure he loved me and I know he did, but I was in love with this man. In love until it got to the point where my love had to get away. So I can get away because I left him, came back, left him, came back. And it's like I'm living front row seats to a tragic horror movie because you, you said, I'm nagging you, but I'm trying to save your life when it comes to alcohol.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

And you just kept drinking and drinking and drinking. And then it got to the point where I even came back to you after you. I have stables in the back of my head from. You hit me with a nine millimeter, the gun would have went off.

[Angela Yee]

I would have away.

[Caller/Listener]

I probably would have been dead today.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[Caller/Listener]

So people was like, you know, I didn't know you was going through all of that. And it's not nobody's business. I tell people. You don't tell people what's going on in your life unless you really ready to leave it. Because then when you tell them, they're like, well, they're looking at him funny. They're looking at you funny when you got back with him and everything.

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Caller/Listener]

You know, so I'm just like, you stay with them and you, you know, you don't see what through abuse, you know, but people always say that you got to leave. You got to. When you truly love somebody, and it wasn't about the money because I make my own. But the thing is, when you truly, truly love somebody, you're going to stay until you exhaust all you can exhaust. And when you ask this man, are you. We just left the Doctor and they tell you, you got to stop. And when I tell you, are you going to stop and get help and stay with me? And you tell me, I make the money, I do what I want to do, you either going to fail, you not going to. You telling me right now, you don't get up about me. Come down. And this was after 20 years, and it took so long for me to walk away. And then it took three years of me trying to heal to get him out of my system. And once you finally get them out of your system, you be like, woosa.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

I mean, damn, I feel so good. But, you know, I don't have any hate. And my thing is everybody said, will you ever get married? It wasn't the marriage, it was the divorce. Divorce was married. Nasty.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

But still, I still pray for him and I still pray that he's in good health. But me, I'm at a peace. And you gotta go, you gotta go. I just tell everybody, just protect your mental. And I thank you, Charlemagne, for all that, because I went to your mental health last year. I don't know if I'm gonna come this year.

[DJ Envy]

They doing it this year. Yeah, give it a detail.

[Teyana Taylor]

I know. I don't know if I'm gonna be.

[Caller/Listener]

Able to come this year.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you can't come this year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, yeah, we know we're doing it.

[Caller/Listener]

I don't know. I'm gonna try.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We doing this. Saturday, October 11th, at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Event center in Newark, New Jersey, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. From 11:00am to 4:00pm, the fifth annual Mental Wealth Expo.

[DJ Envy]

People want to register. How can they register?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go to mentalwealthexpo.com and I'm sitting there thinking, and this is something that I've always wanted to do at the Mental Wealth Expo. I guess people who are actually. We did it last year actually, though. But people who have to deal with people who. Who got mental illness. You know what I'm saying? Like, we focus so much on the people with mental illness as we should. But what about the people who got to deal with that? People who are victims of a person's mental illness. You got to live with a person who got bipolar. Are you married to somebody who's schizophrenic? Like, that's rough, bro.

[DJ Envy]

But, you know, there's a lady on the line we can't get to because we gotta go. She was like. She says she would recommend that anybody stays with someone who is mentally unbalanced. Wouldn't stay with us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got to go to her.

[DJ Envy]

She says her daughter has mental.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's go. You gotta talk to her.

[DJ Envy]

She hung up.

[Caller/Listener]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She hung up. Damn it.

[DJ Envy]

She was on hold too long. Her name was Tierra Daughter probably wilding, but it's just crazy. But like, you know, think about it. You have a daughter or a son that has mental problems, and then, you know, when you pass, you know, you want somebody to take care of him, but they have to understand their condition.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gonna make that a topic before the week over. I want to have that conversation with people. I want to talk to people who got to deal with folks who actually have mental illness.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, we got the latest with Lauren coming up next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get to the.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get to the latest with me.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren becoming a street fat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody some details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on you.

[Carlos Miller]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Carlos Miller]

Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me, LL Cool Bay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey. So Cardi B made an appearance on the stand this week in court. She is being sued for nick alleged incident that went back. That went down back in 2018. So this incident or this court appearance stems from a lawsuit where Cardi was sued for assault, battery, and affliction of emotional distress because there is a security guard or former security guard who claims that she got into it with Cardi B in a outside of OBGYN's office. Let's take a listen to Cardi on the stand explaining what happened.

[Teyana Taylor]

I feel her behind me. Then I hear talking like, oh, my God, Cardi B here. So I turn around and she had her phone and I asked her, why are you following me? She's like, because I can. She's like, getting closer and closer. Like, now she's like, in front of me. And that's when we started arguing. Now we're like, chest to chest practically. I'm thinking to myself, like, girl is big. And we arguing, cursing at each other. I did call her the B word. I did call her A. Like, get out of my face. I did say. And she.

[Angela Yee]

And she kept telling me, like, you're.

[Teyana Taylor]

Gonna leave my building. I'm like, I'm not leaving. Are you telling me how you telling me to leave? I came to see a doctor. I'm just trying to check my cat. That's when the receptionist came out, she started walling out like, this hit me. This hit me. And I'm like, I. I did not hear that. I'm looking at, like, girl, I can't.

[Angela Yee]

Even hit you if I want to.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm.

[Teyana Taylor]

I'm. You're bigger than me and you're pregnant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Celebrity. That's when this one celebrity sucks. Remember when Fat Joe used to say people would walk in front of him and just fall? That is crazy, because they know they could, you know, sue.

[Teyana Taylor]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

That is so sad.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Now, some background for this, because people were like, where the heck did this lawsuit come from? So this incident went down in February 2018, but the lawsuit was filed in 2020. At the time that this incident went down, people didn't know it, but Cardi was four months pregnant with culture. So that was a big part of the reason why.

[DJ Envy]

Seven years ago.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So a big part of the reason why. Cardi didn't even have security with her at the time, because they asked her about that on the stand, too. Like, where was your security? She's like, I didn't want him coming up to the doctor's office. No one knew she was pregnant, so she was trying to keep it low. And then she runs into this girl. So she's like, you know, hey, you're recording me? I think not. Think. It's obvious that Cardi was nervous. She thought that the news was going to get out that she's at OBGYN's office. But the girl is saying it didn't go down like that. She's saying that she saw Cardi. She was excited that it was Cardi, but she was on her phone checking her voicemails because her mom was in chemotherapy at the time. Time. And that's the only reason why she had her phone. Now, this girl alleges that Cardi B. Her fingernail sliced open her left cheek, that Cardi called her racial slurs and spit on her and threatened to get her fired. Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is there video?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, there's no video of this incident. But Cardi B. The girl did get fired. And what happened was. When I was gonna say when. When we. I was at TMZ when this story broke, when this story was, what happened was the. The doctor's office ended up firing the security guard because they felt like, you know, because of HIPAA violations and stuff like that, it just wasn't a good idea. Everything that occurred, the doctor and the assistant came out of the office because they heard the verbal back and forth, and they kind of like, Separated the two of them. So they saw what happened, and she ended up losing her job. But she says, or she alleges that Cardi B. Conspired with the doctor's office to get her fire.

[DJ Envy]

And she was a receptionist or.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, she was a security guard working in the building. So it was like a building full of different offices. And Cardi was going through the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. You can't be acting fanned out when you work at the doctor's office, man. You know what I'm saying? When people go to the doctor's office, they're going there to do, you know, very intimate things, not the time or the place.

[Angela Yee]

And then you can't get mad. Like, you know, obviously she was fan, but she got mad and embarrassed because instead of saying. Instead of Cody saying, hey, how you doing? Let's take a picture. She's like, why you following me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As.

[Angela Yee]

As she should have asked like, why are you following me? And she was probably embarrassed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got. All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember when I went to go get a colonoscopy vasectomy consultation, and then that turned into prostate exam. Was turned into the person who gave me the prostate asking me to take pictures with people. That was wild. You know what you done did after.

[DJ Envy]

You was wide open.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It wasn't wide open. It's just a little.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You had to pay him, so he didn't even pay you. He asked you to do more. That is crazy. You a little ho.

[Angela Yee]

He asked you that while his thumb was in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, it's not a thumb.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, his thumb was in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is after the fact of all of that happening after the vasectomy consultation after the prostate exam. Take a couple pictures.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You went through that selfie now, mind.

[DJ Envy]

You, I've never heard anybody have to go to the hospital.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I could have said no, though. I didn't have to say. I didn't have to say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're so nice, though.

[Teyana Taylor]

You say hi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You take pictures with everybody.

[DJ Envy]

He went for a vasectomy and got a finger in the butt. I've never heard that before in my life.

[Angela Yee]

He said he was going for a vasectomy consultation, and then they ended up bending him over. They didn't just do that out the rip. Well, he butted him up first.

[DJ Envy]

Doctor butted him up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's not. No, go ahead.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Speaking of Charlemagne's, but honestly, not at all. We just switching gears. Drake.

[Teyana Taylor]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Drake is being called out right now by Suge Knight because Drake posted a Tupac chain on his Instagram. And you guys know He's a fan. He brought The Ring in 2023. He's a fan of Tupac. He bought the ring. Now he's posted this chain that he says was Tupac's death row chain. He didn't say, but it was implied.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now let's take a listen to Suge Knight speaking to art of dialogue about the chain.

[Carlos Miller]

How you feel about Drake buying Pac death row chain?

[Caller/Listener]

Well, I'm quite sure it's not true. Only person I got death rotanes and I'm the only one handing them out. I gave one to Snooker first. Andre had a death row chain. It was a few of the homies. None of the on death row had death row chain. Dog Pound didn't even have death row chain. When Pac came home, I'm like, I'm gonna make you one. He was like, you my big bro, let me wear yours. That's more important. So my death row chain at the time was full of diamonds on the chain and full of diamonds on the bezel. Pac came home and got that chain. I heard a few people say that it was something wrong on there. Why run on that chain or the charm? Definitely not the chain, but the charm on the back. It wasn't nothing. Now Drake bought that chain. Drake should go back and keep their drawers up. His there. But I don't go hard about it because it ain't Drake fault. I believe Drake really admired Tupac and like Tupac.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So the chain that Jake Drake actually posted on the front of it is, you know, it's diamond encrusted as death throat. But on the back of it, it does say all eyes on you, 1996. So Suge Knight is saying that this is not. Not the chain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wouldn't it have said all eyes on me? That was the name of the house on you. He's trying everything to one up Kendrick after the fact. It's over, Drake. You lost. Let it go. My God. Like, just let it go already. Like, this is silly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You think he bought the chain because he was like, yo, this gonna kill Kendrick.

[Angela Yee]

What if he got it a long time ago?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, we don't know when he bought it. He just. He randomly just posted it, but we don't know when he bought it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let it go, man.

[DJ Envy]

I don't necessarily think that. I think his. I think he's a fan of hip hop. He's buying everybody's chain at one time, right? Then he bought a Neptune's chain. Then he buy Pharrell's chain. Then he buys somebody Else's chain.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He bought the. The Tupac ring anonymously and then posted that he bought it. That's how we did.

[DJ Envy]

He bought. I thought he bought something else too. That was. Was somebody like big in the industry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When it comes to J. I don't know if it was Jury. I know he bought the clips microphone one. One time.

[Teyana Taylor]

He did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

He bought the clips microphone.

[Angela Yee]

I know that's right. Is he like building a museum or something?

[DJ Envy]

He did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Idea.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait, hold on. I did not know that he bought the. The Eclipse microphone.

[DJ Envy]

I think it was the microphone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is so crazy. That didn't age well. That is crazy, yo.

[Teyana Taylor]

Well, he read it was a push.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A T sign microphone.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He bought a push a T autograph microphone for 200.

[Angela Yee]

He loved that man. That was that. He once loved him like Alex better.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Never ask about that microphone, cuz. You gonna have to explain how we found.

[DJ Envy]

No, he's a fan. We bought all the. All the. All the pieces.

[Angela Yee]

It's just that everything happened later on. But he was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Microphone told us Drake had a son. That microphone has done a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think it was that mic, but I wonder what is he.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What does he do with that mic? Does he put it on ebay now? Does he destroy it? He probably do a ritual. He probably do a ritual. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Before I'm sure he destroy the mic, but I thought he would put in his crib. Like you know how people have artifacts of different.

[Angela Yee]

That's what I was saying is he.

[DJ Envy]

Put the jewelry in. It would be dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Probably light a f. Probably light a fire. Got a bunch of owl imaging all around it. Put the microphone in the middle hand the hammer, the chubs and say chubs. Crash something.

[DJ Envy]

What's wrong with you, man? That is the latest with Lauren. All right. When we come back, we got the People's Choice mix. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up, wake up.

[Carlos Miller]

You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to Tiana Taylor for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. If you have heard Escape Room and you listen to that conversation that we had with Tiana this morning, that conversation gives so much context to Escape Room. You will enjoy the album even more after you listen to the interview. So go do both.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And I hope at the end of it, I hope her and Aman could get things on the same page where they could co parent the right way.

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

I hope that they can Y. Yep, yep. Fingers crossed.

[Angela Yee]

And also, guys, if you haven't got your messy visions yet, you need to get on the website messyvision eyewear.com because I'm still taking 20% off of everybody's glasses if you use the promo code wake wake for wake that ass up. Love y' all so much. The glasses that I'm wearing right now are called the Pedialytes. So if you have kids who drink Pedialyte, you should get them. Thank you so much, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to everybody out in Queens, Lauren and myself are headed to the US Open for HBCUV Day. I think we're flipping the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The.

[DJ Envy]

The coins. They had me flipping the coin with Glattus Knight. Right, Lauren?

[Angela Yee]

I think that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you mean by like I'm saying is there's players that went to the hbcu.

[Angela Yee]

I know I should have went to college.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just trying to figure out like.

[DJ Envy]

But there are players that play in the US Open that attended HBCU, but it's just a day of just recognizing HBCUs and everything that HBCU does for the community.

[Angela Yee]

Does community colleges count?

[DJ Envy]

I don't think so. I don't think so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can still come if you want.

[Teyana Taylor]

Want. Shut up.

[Angela Yee]

Because you should have told me that when they asked you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, the funny thing is they told me I got to go to flip a coin, right? So I'm going to flip the coin. Lauren's like, I'm going to the suite. We going to turn up in the suite. And this. I'm like, it's a tennis match. Like, what do you mean? She's like, nah, this is what we do.

[Angela Yee]

So entertaining.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So U.S. open. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They got the presidential suite in the HBCU live suite.

[Angela Yee]

I think that's dope.

[DJ Envy]

So we'll see if Lauren is still not drinking. Cuz she says she's 30 days of not drinking. So let's that last after this. Sweet today.

[Angela Yee]

I'm really proud of her too. And she even got on her US Open. Her US Open outfit is dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but who burnt it though?

[DJ Envy]

And why didn't you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like that can't be a look.

[DJ Envy]

You did not go to Catholic school because you would have got a Catholic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

School and went to hell. Now you're going to the US Open with the hbcu. She went to Catholic school, got her skirt burnt, and now she's going to the U.S. open. That don't make no sense.

[Angela Yee]

Looks so cute though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

You got a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, the positive note is simply take action without expecting a reward. Okay? Do your best and take the action because you love it, not because you expect a reward. When you take action without without expecting a reward, you enjoy every action and you can even receive greater rewards than you ever imagined. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club.

[Caller/Listener]

You all finished or y' all done?

[Carlos Miller]

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[DJ Envy]

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