FULL SHOW: Tyrese Breaks His Silence After Animal Cruelty Accusations [EXCLUSIVE], Nicki Minaj & Cardi B Feud Escalates + Chris Gotti Interview

Summary

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The Breakfast Club – September 30, 2025

FULL SHOW: Tyrese Breaks His Silence After Animal Cruelty Accusations, Nicki Minaj & Cardi B Feud Escalates, Chris Gotti Interview

Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guests: Lauren LaRosa (Culture/News), Mimi Brown (News), Chris Gotti

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Episode Theme

This episode features an engaging blend of hip hop culture, breaking news, and high-impact interviews. The focal points: Tyrese breaks his silence after shocking animal cruelty allegations, the Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B feud boils over on social media and in records, and an extensive, emotional interview with hip hop executive Chris Gotti (Murder Inc.) about his history, business, loss, and legacy.

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Key Segments & Discussion Highlights

1. Front Page News: Politics & Pop Culture

[05:47 – 11:10 | 35:30 – 41:03 | 59:39 – 62:09]

• Government Shutdown Looms: Mimi Brown breaks down the impasse in Congress, where failure to strike a deal could trigger major layoffs, delayed benefits, and suspended federal services.
  • “If you are a military personnel, lawmakers say that if you don’t reach a deal, 2 million US service workers could be forced to keep working without pay.” – Mimi Brown [36:01]
• Trump’s Legal Settlements with Big Tech: Trump wins multimillion-dollar settlements from YouTube and other platforms over social media suspensions, causing the hosts to joke about presidential privilege.
  • “Most people are saying, ‘Here, take my cookies’.” – Charlamagne [09:33]
• Tariffs on Everyday Goods: New tariffs to hit drugs, furniture, and even Hollywood films, with anticipated spikes in everyday prices.
  • “Whether it’s medicine, meals, a makeover—these tariffs are going to hit hard.” – Mimi Brown [39:41]

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2. Listener Calls Segment ("Get It Off Your Chest")

[11:46 – 21:02]

• Wide-Ranging Calls: Listeners share intense and funny stories: getting into a fight and stabbed, weddings, Uber rides with musty passengers, and a heartfelt call from a Black trans woman about experiencing transphobia on her birthday.
  • "If they're worried about what's between my legs instead of worried about the systemic oppression that's placed upon all Black people, we are doomed as a people." – Ms. Chastity85 [18:48]
• The hosts' banter alternates between comedic and supportive, holding space for serious topics while keeping the mood engaging.

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3. Culture & Gossip: Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B Feud

[21:12 – 30:02 | 71:43 – 76:48 | 112:09 – 115:53]

Social Media & Music Exchange

• Album Sales & “Fake Numbers”: Cardi earns back-to-back number one debuts. Nicki claims Cardi’s numbers are inflated; Cardi claps back, mocking Nicki’s reliance on old stats and challenging her to compete with the likes of Rihanna and Taylor Swift.
  • “You join the game as a willing participant. Don’t try to back out now.” – Nicki Minaj tweet, quoted by Lauren [22:18]
  • “You need to compare yourself to your peers… Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake. Those are the numbers you need to be competing with.” – Cardi B (via Lauren) [25:40]
• Diss Tracks & “Reindeer Games”: Both sides drop subliminals in lyrics, posts, and memes. The tension reaches a near-diss-record level, with fans parsing lines for meaning.
  • “I want to see raps. I don’t want to see no tweets, no hashtags, no memes.” – Charlamagne [28:25]
• Leaked Phone Audio: Later in the show, a leaked call reveals Cardi threatening to “beat up” fellow rapper Ice Spice, reacting to a perceived diss.
  • “Y'all gonna see what the f--- is up.” – Cardi B [112:16]
• The hosts call for an official rap battle, not just internet drama.
  • “Get in the booth, man. I want to see raps.” – Charlamagne [28:25]

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4. Exclusive: Tyrese Breaks Silence on Animal Cruelty Arrest Warrant

[71:43 – 77:12]

• Background: Tyrese faces a warrant after his Cane Corso dogs allegedly killed another dog in Atlanta.
• Tyrese’s Statement (via Lauren LaRosa): Tyrese asserts he’s not on the run, deeply regrets the incident, and is fully cooperating via attorneys, having already re-homed his dogs.
  • “I’m actively trying to reach out to the family directly to express my sorrow and condolences… I am truly heartbroken.” – Tyrese (statement) [74:10]
• Hosts’ Take: They discuss the realities of animal responsibility, with Charlamagne injecting humor: “Back in the day, they used to put animals on trial.” [75:09]
• Moral: Even if you’re not present, as a pet owner, you’re held responsible for incidents.

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5. In-Depth: Chris Gotti Interview (Murder Inc.)

[41:33 – 65:08]

Hip Hop History, Conflict, and Personal Perspective

• Founding of Murder Inc.: Story of the name and origins, Irv’s ambition to be hip hop’s top producer, and building a label driven by ambition and opportunity (defining role of the Ja Rule–Ashanti era).
  • “I helped make all of the music with them… I just took care of the business and I took care of my little brother.” – Chris Gotti [43:44]
• Business Moves & Major Deals: Ashanti’s rise (and contract drama), million-dollar buybacks, and the calculated risk in breaking records.
• Personal Loss & Family Dynamics: Chris speaks about Irv Gotti’s health crisis, their father’s legacy, the pain and stress of loss, and business decisions motivated by mortality.
  • “He would always accept death. He would always accept death if that was the consequence… No one knows that expiration date.” – Chris Gotti [48:39]
• Beefs & Industry Politics: Tales of navigating relationships with Hov, Fat Joe, Nas, and DMX—even how errors or misplaced loyalty created rifts (ex: the Hov/Nas signing drama).
  • “Family’s fight. Irv made a ton of mistakes… I’m gonna always speak the reality of what it was.” – Chris Gotti [49:46]
• Ashanti Estrangement: Chris details hurt from Ashanti not contacting him directly after Irv’s passing, despite their close history and his role in her career.
  • “For her not to call me after Irv’s passing, she texts me, that don’t feel right.” – Chris Gotti [58:29]
  • “She could come see me physically... I love Ashanti, you know what I’m saying? That’s like little sis for real.” [61:39]
• New Project: Chris announces his film “Ballin’,” starring Lance Stevenson and Safaree, with a unique “culture for today” twist based on Hitchcock’s "Dial M for Murder."

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6. Pop Culture Hot Takes & Super Bowl Discourse

[87:43 – 108:54]

• Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: Debate erupts as listeners and hosts chew over complaints that “most viewers won’t understand Spanish,” but everyone acknowledges Bad Bunny is one of the biggest artists on earth.
  • “I don’t listen to Bad Bunny’s music. But I do know… he’s one of the biggest artists in the world.” – Charlamagne [90:06]
  • “Music is a vibe…” – DJ Envy [90:57]
• Generational Divide: Some callers (“I’m Puerto Rican and I don’t want to hear Spanish!” [92:49]) and others question whether Bad Bunny is a “generational” artist. Hosts push back, citing global sales, cultural shifts, and the NFL’s move toward global inclusion.
  • “20% of America is Latino… Bad Bunny is going to have a huge, huge audience.” – Charlamagne [97:17]

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7. Wild News: "Donkey of the Day"

[80:22 – 87:01]

• Disturbing True Crime: Charlamagne highlights Lorenz Cross, a man who killed his parents, buried them in the backyard, then calmly confessed in a televised interview—underscoring “content over everything” in modern media.
  • “Everybody is content over everything these days.” – Charlamagne [85:09]
• Hosts mock and dissect the morbid story with dark humor.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Don’t let them take that energy. Enjoy your birthday… and F the haters.” – DJ Envy to Ms. Chastity85 [20:18]
• “This is gas because that could be towards anybody… Y’all want it to be Nicki Minaj. I’m not saying it’s not. I’m just saying this is... gas.” – Charlamagne on the “subliminal” diss songs [25:18]
• “Get in the booth. I want to see raps.” – Charlamagne [28:25]
• “For her not to call me after Irv’s passing… that don’t feel right.” – Chris Gotti [58:29]
• “Family’s fight. Irv made a ton of mistakes.” – Chris Gotti [49:46]

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Show Sign-Offs & Uplifting Notes

• Positive Note: "Ask for what you want, people. Others have the right to tell you yes or no, but you always have the right to ask." – Charlamagne [119:49]

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Final Thoughts

This episode exemplifies The Breakfast Club’s signature blend of sharp humor, unfiltered cultural commentary, and genuine heart. From industry beefs and animal headlines to raw family and business reflections, today's episode is a must-listen for anyone who cares about hip hop, entertainment, and the human stories behind the drama.

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Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Chris Gotti]

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[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

I first found out about my cancer on my birthday at the age of 45. Found out my cancer had spread to my pelvic bone and from there, life just changed.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

About one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, and the risk increases with age.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

Anything with cancer, you just think death sentence.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the only thing I could think.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

About was who's going to take care of my family. You have to go out there and build your support system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gotta build your team.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

In this episode, we'll explore the science behind detection, along with the practical steps men can take to protect their health. Listen to Health Discovered on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app. Search health Discovered and start listening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only Madonna.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was.

[Angela Yee]

Held up at gunpoint.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

I was robbed.

[Angela Yee]

All these horrendous things happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood that.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

Whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was. So I'm not going back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious. Good Charlamagne the God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the Planet is Tuesday. 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. My boundaries have already been violated this morning because, you know, I don't know how you. How you other ladies feel, but you know, you walk into work and you know there's a man, the gimme a hug person. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? Yeah. You know, the give me a hug guy is never wanted anywhere. Not at. Not at work, not at family reunions, not at cookouts. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I had a rough. I had a rough morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And I said charlamagne. I just. I want to hug. That's it.

[Angela Yee]

This need a bidet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo.

[Angela Yee]

He came in, dropped soon before you even walked in.

[DJ Envy]

I had. I had Indian food last night and as soon as I came in this morning, I had to run right to the bathroom. It was a rough morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

So when charlamagne came in, I said it was a rough morning. I just wanted a hug.

[Angela Yee]

He walked up to dab you though, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wanted a hug. And then when I refused to give him a hug, your chase and I turned around, he chased me and hugged me from the back.

[Chris Gotti]

Chased you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

HR violation right there. Okay? HR violation.

[Angela Yee]

Right before your prayer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Red was in here. He could have hugged Red. Brandon Youngana was in here. He could have hugged Young. Ghana. Jess was in here. You don't want no woman.

[Chris Gotti]

They didn't give me no hug this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

I didn't want to give you a hug cuz I just left the bathroom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ridiculous.

[DJ Envy]

That Indian fool had me going this morning. Like it got to the point that I didn't even come here first. I went right to the bathroom. I got it out, I let it go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let it go? How you leave the house without pooping?

[DJ Envy]

I did poop when I left the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

House, but I don't even care, man.

[DJ Envy]

I had a bidet at home. Not here though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There was no bidet here.

[DJ Envy]

There's no bidet here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't care.

[DJ Envy]

Well, good morning, guys.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, we got a special guest joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chris Gotti. Right.

[DJ Envy]

Chris Gotti will be joining us this morning. Chris Gotti, of course, is Irv Gotti's brother. He's one of the founders of Murder Inc. He's the one that actually found Ashanti.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So we'll talk to.

[Angela Yee]

I did not know that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we'll talk to Chris Scotty. He'll break down everything that he's doing and everything that, you know, went on with his brother and all that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So we'll talk to. I always enjoy those, those, those throwback stories because that was a golden era of hip hop, you know what I mean? So I always like to hear people who were from that era have discussions about that era. But he also had the new league. Yes, yes.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, the basketball.

[DJ Envy]

Is it the Clash league? Is it, Is it called the Clash, like pro Clash league? Well, we'll get into that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Our producers ain't put none of that on the pillow.

[Angela Yee]

Crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, so we'll get into all that, too. All right. But let's get the show cracking when we back. Mimi will be joining us. She'll be breaking down everything that's going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mimi Brown.

[DJ Envy]

So it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Start off with some quick sports. Last night, the Dolphins beat the Jets 27. 21. The Broncos beat the Bengals 28. 3. Tyreek Hill. He suffered a dislocated knee and was taken to the hospital for evaluation. So that was NFL sports. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, everyone. How are you?

[DJ Envy]

I'm great.

[Mimi Brown]

Morning. Good morning. Okay, so we start this morning in Washington where a government shutdown is now just hours away. Congress has until midnight tonight to strike a deal or large parts of the federal government will grind to a halt. Now, after a high stakes meeting at the White House yesterday, both sides walked away still pointing fingers. Republicans blame Democrats for refusing to pass a short term funding bill. And Democrats say the GOP is trying to push through a plan without their input. Let's hear how Vice President J.D. vance put it after that meeting.

[DJ Envy]

I think we're headed to a shutdown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because the Democrats won't do the right thing.

[DJ Envy]

I hope they change their mind.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we're going to see whatever our.

[DJ Envy]

Disagreements are, let's negotiate with them, let's.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

Talk about them, let's figure out a bipartisan solution.

[DJ Envy]

But you don't shut the government down. In other words, you don't put a.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

Gun to the American people's head and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say, unless you do exactly what Senate and House Democrats want you to do.

[DJ Envy]

We'Re going to shut down your government. That's exactly what they're proposing out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like this happens every few months. Every few months you see this headline, it's like the government's gonna be shut down. It's like Nick Cannon's having a baby. Nicki Minaj had a Twitter rant. It's just like the same headline every few months.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but I always ask the same question. If it does shut down, what does that mean for the American people?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, I mean, we're gonna get there. It means it could mean a lot for the American people and it could look a lot different for the American people. I know we talked about yesterday how the president is threatening mass layoffs if the government does shut down. But Democrats are also back saying Republicans are the ones refusing to compromise. Let's hear Senator Chuck Schumer on that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input. That is never how we've done this before. When I was leader, we negotiated four.

[Chris Gotti]

Times with Republicans and we never had a shutdown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so it's up to the Republicans whether they want to shut down or not.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, Democrats insist that any deal must include protections like the Obamacare tax credits, which are expected to expire at the end of the year. And with neither side backing down, the odds of a government shutdown starting tomorrow keeps climbing. And to answer your question, envy for everyday people. The fallout looks real in many ways. Could be delayed. Food assistance, small business loans, those will also could be delayed housing programs, slower processing for Social Security benefits or veterans benefits. You know, so just real consequences. And again, President Trump has warned there could be mass firings if the government does shut down. And that's a major break from the past. Usually, government workers are furloughed and they're called back with pay. And so he's, he's saying that he's using something in his arsenal, saying that if you do do this, thousands of people could be laid off. So that has lots of federal workers really scared.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And meanwhile, YouTube is agreeing to pay a 24.5 million dollar lawsuit to settle with President Trump. This comes after the platform suspended his account for the January 6th capital attacks. Now, most of that money, about $22 million of it, will go to Trump himself. He says he'll use it to help fund a brand new White House State ballroom as a $200 million project he's been touting as part of his legacy. And the rest of the settlement will be split among the plaintiffs. And this deal is a big one because it wraps up all three lawsuits that Trump filed against social media after his 2021 ban. Now, Meta they already paid $25 million. X formerly known as Twitter, they paid $10 million. And now YouTube, it closes out that settlement with Big Tech, and they're now paying that $24.5 million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. There's not a platform safe. YouTube meta X. If Trump wants to tap your jaw and, you know, put his hand in your cookie jar, you know, most people are saying, here, take my cookies.

[DJ Envy]

So wait a minute. So if. If. If one of these X or YouTube, they suspended somebody for not the right reason, you can sue them and possibly get $20 million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here y' all go. Cause y' all stupid. Y' all think y' all the president. You're not Donald Trump, you idiot. That's the difference.

[DJ Envy]

Is that what you're saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're not Donald Trump, you idiot.

[DJ Envy]

Me, me, me, me. Is that what you're saying? If they suspended my account.

[Mimi Brown]

That's not what I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not what you're saying. Cause you. You regular, everyday smegular people ain't gonna be able to do that. That's the President of the United States of America. It's a different level of power, and people are, you know, bending the knee to him. It's really just that simple.

[Mimi Brown]

And it goes back to what you've been saying. He's coming back after everyone, right? Charlamagne, we're seeing it with the news stations, right? With him coming after all the stations. You know, paramount, everybody. So YouTube is just another in the long list of. Of people he's or companies he's going after that he feels wrong. Them wronged him back in days when he was running for president.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Trump put it on his list. Oh, y' all suspended my account. I remember that. Run me my coins. X. You suspended my account. I remember that. Run me my coins. Meta YouTube. I remember that. Run me my coins. It's a hit list.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, that's what we're saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God, I ain't seen nobody spin the block like this since Nelly and Ashanti.

[Mimi Brown]

It's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's.

[Mimi Brown]

It's real. It's definitely happening. And we're watching it play out in real time. And this is not something that we've ever seen before, so it's very interesting to keep watching. All right, well, coming up at 7, a major shift in how federal payments may be delivered. We'll talk about that in the next hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, everybody else make you think, though. It's like, yo, who came back better? Was it Trump? Was it Trump? Was it the dude Kane beat up administer society when they came back and shot up, shot up the block? Was it boys in the hood when they came back and shot Ricky?

[DJ Envy]

Nah, got to be. Trump got 50. Danny was Ricky. Trump got 50. Yeah, you got what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, Trump came back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray. Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne, Envy.

[DJ Envy]

What up?

[Listeners / Callers]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Listeners / Callers]

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He'll tell you what it is.

[Listeners / Callers]

We lied.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this? Yo, Trav. I was just talking about you yesterday. Said I haven't spoke to you in a minute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was just talking about you this morning. Because he was talking about his butt being muddy.

[Listeners / Callers]

No, I didn't, but my butt ain't muddy, first of all. What's up, Jeff?

[Angela Yee]

What's up, baby Charlemagne?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, sis? How you, sir?

[Listeners / Callers]

You know, you. You always be saying that. We spend our days trying to avoid crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Listeners / Callers]

So last week, I got stabbed by.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This dude in the back downtown. Oh, so, like, no, no.

[Listeners / Callers]

So stairs. No, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got.

[Angela Yee]

My hand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really? With a knife? Yeah, with a knife.

[Listeners / Callers]

I got, like. Like, my homegirl got into a fight with this other girl downtown, and her boyfriend, like, trying to jump in it, so I had to jump in it. So me and him, like. And he pulls the knife out and starts trying to stab me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, that could have ended bad.

[Listeners / Callers]

Like, literally. Say it again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That could have ended bad, man. I'm happy that you are, you know.

[Listeners / Callers]

But it definitely could have been a lot worse.

[DJ Envy]

Now, travel. Y' all went downtown to go fight this girl?

[Angela Yee]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no.

[Listeners / Callers]

We was downtown in the club. You know, we came outside the club, and then this. This girl, she clearly was on something, and she started, like, going at my homegirl, so my homegirl was fighting her. Then the dude tried to jump in it and hit my homegirl, so I had to jump in it.

[Chris Gotti]

And.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah, it was just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was.

[Listeners / Callers]

A lot of. It was very chaotic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I want to say, Trav, you didn't. You must not have went hard initially, right? Because you know what I'm saying? If you got into it with the dude, you must have pushed him or something. You ain't swing on him?

[Listeners / Callers]

Oh, no, I swung on him. What you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you ain't. You ain't knock him out? He was able to grab his knife.

[Listeners / Callers]

We got the suspend. Clearly, I was running because he pulled a knife out on me. Right.

[Angela Yee]

Well, I'm glad you're okay, because the Person who called up yesterday, they was asking, like, why Trav don't ever call no more, And I'm like, damn, he don't call. But whole time, you downtown every week.

[Listeners / Callers]

Though, other than last week, I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember you calling last.

[Angela Yee]

Not last week. I would say about two, three weeks ago. But now we know you downtown fighting.

[Listeners / Callers]

I definitely won't be trying to fight, but I'm all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm alive.

[Angela Yee]

You okay? We glad you okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Sending me a picture of your hand, man.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm good. Thank you so much. I'm glad you better, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, that's crazy.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

Hey, this is Auntie Kim from the 843.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, Auntie Kim? Kim from the 843. What's happening?

[Listeners / Callers]

Charlemagne? I married now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, congratulations.

[DJ Envy]

Nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who made that mistake? What happened?

[Listeners / Callers]

I said, I know he was trying to get you to come, but I know you were busy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Do you even know Auntie?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I know Auntie Kim.

[Angela Yee]

He said, that person shouldn't even emerge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. I did not say nothing.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yes. The mess. I love Jess.

[Angela Yee]

I love you.

[Listeners / Callers]

I'm gonna keep calling every day until you come down to Charleston.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, ma'.

[Chris Gotti]

Am.

[Angela Yee]

I'm trying to get somebody to make it happen. Venue down there. I gotta come down there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Where would Jess come? We ain't no comedy clubs in Charleston no more.

[Listeners / Callers]

Didn't we have this conversation before? Charlamagne?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Listeners / Callers]

Okay. You gotta work on that. You Charleston ambassador, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know that.

[Listeners / Callers]

But now there's a lot of things you don't know about yourself down here. They hold you in high regards down here, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I appreciate. Appreciate that, you know, that's home.

[Listeners / Callers]

Don't be so modest. Don't be so modest, right?

[DJ Envy]

Auntie Kim, did Charlemagne send you a wedding gift yet? Auntie Kim, did Charlemagne send you a wedding gift yet? No.

[Listeners / Callers]

Oh, no, that's all right. Just saying, you know, just giving me his wedding, you know, just give him. Sending me off with nice words.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Send me something. Send me the registry or something. I'll. I'll. I'll send something.

[DJ Envy]

Because usually when people go to the wedding, they pay the plate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you ain't got no registry.

[DJ Envy]

You know, usually when people have a wedding, people got to pay the plate. So him and his wife and his kids would have went, that's six people. So how much is each plate?

[Listeners / Callers]

Everything was free. And I want to give a shout out to my nephew, Damone Finley, who Put his foot in that food.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go.

[Angela Yee]

That's right.

[Listeners / Callers]

I'm taking him. I'm taking him.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Auntie Kim.

[Listeners / Callers]

And he's so humble. But, Jeff, I'm falling every day. And so we find a venue, and I don't know if you guys know that October 17th through the 19th birth high school got their homecoming, and it's supposed to be a big thing with. What's the guy? The 803 guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

803 fresh.

[Listeners / Callers]

Oh, yeah, a whole bunch of other people at Daniel. At the Jenkins Orphanage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'.

[Chris Gotti]

Am.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah. So if you're in the area, come on and have a good time with my daughters and the alumni. But I just want to let you guys know I love y' all on a daily.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We love you too, Kim. Thank you. 843 all day.

[Listeners / Callers]

Hello?

[Chris Gotti]

Who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

Yo, good morning, DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Charlamagne?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The guy, Peaceful Jeff.

[Angela Yee]

Hey.

[Listeners / Callers]

Hey. Some people got a shower before they enter Uber. Not even.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So everybody, I'm telling you, Musty ain't no joke, bro.

[Listeners / Callers]

Nah. These two girls, you know, and I understand you got your own separate situation, but you hop in my car, and immediately the car is just filled up with these fumes, and I got to hold my breath through the car ride.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, nothing worse than a stink woman, man. I'm going to be honest with you. Men are allowed to, you know, have a odor, even though I don't like it. But, man, when a woman. Musty.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, it's different, but you know what?

[Listeners / Callers]

It does up to me.

[Angela Yee]

But you can't leave no reviews for the. For the riders. They leave reviews for y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Angela Yee]

You can't review a driver.

[DJ Envy]

Some of these cars think, too, though. Like, sometimes you get Uber to smell.

[Angela Yee]

Too, though, because of the say, cuz just got out. Like, that's the thing. Now he got to quit the. Well, you know, take a break to go get the car washed now.

[Listeners / Callers]

And the crazy thing is they tried to have a conversation with me, you know, and I played it off like, oh, how long you been growing your dread? Like, a couple weeks, a couple years. You know what I'm saying? Like, not trying to really have a little conversation, you know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what it is? You got to keep a podcast on deck, a podcast about bacterial vaginosis podcast about, you know, being musty and just be playing it. You know what I'm saying? Just, like, play it loud and hope that they get the hint. Oh, God.

[Listeners / Callers]

Hey, but. Love y', all, y' all have a good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love you too, man. Ain't nothing like them. I'm telling you, man, Musty woman is just like, remember last week? It was a room full of people in here, and I go, it smelled like outside. Somebody smell like outside. Everybody started sniffing. Mind you, ain't nobody was outside. Nobody.

[Angela Yee]

I'm like, oh, gosh. I was scared to look around. Like, damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Hello, who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

This is Ms. Chastity 85.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Ms. Chastity 85. Get it off your cheers.

[Listeners / Callers]

So I'm calling in today. I celebrated my 40th birthday last week and happy birthday.

[DJ Envy]

Welcome to the 40 Club.

[Angela Yee]

Hey, thank you.

[Listeners / Callers]

After posting a real on Instagram, I got over a thousand comments. Disgusting comments from black men and women. As I am a black transgender female. And for me, if they're worried about what's between my legs instead of worried about the systemic oppression that's placed upon all black people, we are doomed as a people. So I need our people to do more. Be educated and stop trying to figure out what's between other people's legs. If it's not benefiting you worry about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The balls and chains that America has on us, not the balls between your legs. That's right, allegedly.

[DJ Envy]

And don't let them take that energy.

[Listeners / Callers]

Allegedly and charlamagne. I am a post op trans woman, so ain't no balls here, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, hey. Congratulations. You have committed.

[Listeners / Callers]

But you can't say that either, though, Charlemagne, because everybody can't afford that. Not this luxury is not afforded to everybody. Insurance don't cover it in every state like it does in Massachusetts, where I'm at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So true.

[Listeners / Callers]

It's not fair to say that people can't afford it.

[DJ Envy]

How much does it cost?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you are committed, though. I respect the fact that you've committed.

[DJ Envy]

How much does it cost? The surgery, usually?

[Listeners / Callers]

It depends, but I'll speak for myself. My surgery was 80,000, so I do have a BMW between my leg.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a what?

[Listeners / Callers]

A BMW. I'm driving a BMW. That's how much it costs.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, BMW between the ladies. That's a BMW. Well, enjoy your birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is some black men's wish, though.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know them guys be in your DMs.

[Angela Yee]

What?

[Listeners / Callers]

It'd be the same ones that be hating them in public on my comments as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, salute to you, man. I respect everybody's right to exist. I ain't got no problem with what you got going on.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, don't let them take your shine. Enjoy your birthday. That's your birthday. You you 40 enjoy it. Have a good time. And f the haters.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but you ain't got no candle to blow out no.

[Listeners / Callers]

Charlamagne. There you go. They did post you under my post too, with a meme of you looking sassy. So you should be easy now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am sassy.

[DJ Envy]

Very sassy mama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, I got no problem being sassy.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you have a good one. Your name is Chastity85.

[Listeners / Callers]

You said Ms. Chastity85? Yes.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Ms. Chastity85.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Ms. Chastity. You have a great day.

[Listeners / Callers]

Thank you. You too. Bye, Jess.

[Angela Yee]

Bye, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, Jess, why you so quiet all of a sudden? Jess, why you so.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-4051.

[Chris Gotti]

All right, all right.

[DJ Envy]

We got the lady coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, we do. The girls is online arguing. They talking. Nicki Minaj, Cardi B going at it.

[DJ Envy]

Where did this come from?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was about album sales, and then it went to BV and some other things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

BV album. The album.

[Angela Yee]

This girl album Gotta make by me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is yes, period.

[Angela Yee]

Supposed to do?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, we're gonna talk about all the tweets and all. All the things.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my gosh. All right, we'll get to that. Next is the Breakfast Club.

[Listeners / Callers]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

I'm going to human resources.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are back again for another round of who is the better female rapper. They're going at it on X.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How. How ain't nobody rapping. I going back and forth about who the best female rapping. Anybody rapping.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nicki Minaj has an album coming out in March, and Cardi B just dropped the album. So let's talk about it. So, okay, Cardi B's album, there were reports that a lot of people were reposting and congratulating Cardi on that Cardi had hit had sold 200 units the first week after she entered the Billboard 200 chart, and she claimed the number one position there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So yesterday, very respectable number, by the way, dropping a clues bomb very much.

[Chris Gotti]

Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So with that stat, this would make Cardi the first female rapper in history to see her first two albums debut at number one because she did it with Invasion of Privacy. And then, you know, seven years later, now she's doing it again. Now, Nicki Minaj comes to Twitter because that stat she was not impressed by. Not even was she not impressed. She's implying in her tweets that Cardi B's numbers are inflated. So Nicki Minaj tweets to every enabler. Never provoke a writer while they're. And she has, like, the pencil writing emoji. You join the game as a willing participant. Don't try to back out now. March 27, 2026, which is when her project is coming out, she has tags. Rock bottom nation, Rock inflation, Rico nation. You fail. Let the reindeer games begin. We hashtag win again. So then there were tweets from Cardi.

[Angela Yee]

That said, goddamn riddles, you must have missed me, huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Crazy question mark. Now kiss my feet. Nothing more annoying than a board B. So Nicki Minaj had reposted to her insta story a Twitter account that said, despite false reports, Nicki Minaj is the only female rapper to have an album across 200k units. The first re. The first week in this decade.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So basically, that 200k first week stat that we just talked about, Nicki Minaj is saying that she's the only person that did it because she doesn't believe that Cardi's numbers are what they are, bless her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it don't matter what she believed. The numbers are the numbers. Cardi sold 205, 000. Like, what's the. What's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, then the tweets continue to go. So you know, Nick. So at some point, Nicki Minaj is tweeting a, B, C, D, F, G, E, E, E, E, E. Surgery to look like me. Tell the rat and tell Jay Z, Rico, fraud and perjury. Now, the reason why. The reason this is. I mean, we already knew what she was talking about, but this right here, she's talking about one of Cardi B's songs that she has on her album where she raps just like that. It's called Magnet. Let's take a listen to the Nicki Minaj disc on Magnet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How's that a Nicki Minaj? So who told y'? All that's a Nicki Minaj?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So from what fans grabbed from it, it was the whole shout out to the women wearing their pants in their relationships because people poke at Nicki Minaj and her relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But also, I thought Claudia was talking about herself.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She also mentions Kamala. But listen, on the Young Thug, on the Young Thug project that just dropped, Cardi B is on a song there. And her feature there, it's also Something that fans believe she's going to Nicki Minaj. And let's take a listen. And the re. Again, again, she's implying that Nicki Minaj carries her full relationship. Well, listen, all of the music is here and they're going back and forth directly online. So I'm just telling you what is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is when people gas things up because this what they want to see. Y' all want it to be Nicki Minaj. I'm not saying it's not. I'm just saying this is. This is gas because that could be towards anybody.

[DJ Envy]

For that one. And then the second one, what they're saying she got beat on. Did Nikki get beat on? And we don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We don't. I don't know that we didn't hear anything about that.

[DJ Envy]

Not just making it about obvious that.

[Angela Yee]

She talking about her. That's not obvious at all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Cardi tweeted in the midst of all of the ABCDEFG surgery and said, damn, she was streaming Magnet hard as hell.

[Chris Gotti]

Huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then she responded, abcdefg. Your man have to snatch the P word. P word tastes like honeycomb. Your bro be touching 12 year olds. She also called Nicki Minaj cocaine Barbie. She also tweeted to Nicki Minaj, why you. Why you keep bringing up my album? It's not like the. It's not the gag that you think it is. You've been in the game like 16 years. You need to compare yourself to your peers. You started that started around your time. Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake. Those are the numbers you need to be competing with. And you can't because you're doing lower than all of them. I was in high school when you came out. What are. What are you comparing yourself to me for then? Nicki Minaj.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, Nicki Pierce should be those people that she named, not the bodies of the world, even though it's female rap.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But Cardi B is the biggest female rapper right now, so why wouldn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Nikki should be the biggest. Like, Nicki should be the icon. Like, Nikki should be sitting on the throne and like. Like, she should be in a. On an island by herself, right?

[DJ Envy]

Like, HOV wouldn't be going at, let's say, a future or Hope wouldn't be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Going at a little baby or a Kendrick or a Kendrick or Drake.

[DJ Envy]

Like, they're totally two different classes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I agree with what y' all are saying, but this has been happening for years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that's giving drink a bottle.

[DJ Envy]

It is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It wasn't there Like a thing with Jay Z and Future at one point.

[Angela Yee]

But they didn't get records with each other.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wasn't there. Wasn't there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nobody knows what you're talking about. I never heard.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, no. It was the conversation about, do you play Jay Z or Future in the club? And Jay Z is not as relevant as people said they don't play Jay Z in the club. That was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That got to do with Jay Z. I'm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I mixed it up. But anyway, let me get back to Cardi and Nicki Minaj now. I get what y' all are saying, but I do feel like if. If Nikki here and she gonna play, she gotta. She gotta shoot where it's big at. And that's where Cardi B is. Cardi B is the biggest. So she then also tweeted out some photos. She's now calling Cardi B Barney B. And Barney B has been trending since she said it. She put Barney B's face on Barney B, Cardi's face on Barney. She also put Rock Roc Nation, Jay Z with pink wig and the crying emoji. And the reason why she keeps putting Jay Z and Cardi B together, because when Cardi dropped imaginary players or mentioned before it even came out that she was going to drop it, this was in the midst of Nicki Minaj doing all the blame. Rock Nation. Bling Rock Nation. And people felt like Cardi getting the okay to do imaginary players was Jay Z choosing sides with Cardi B because of the obvious beef.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's so crazy about this? None of those people that can put all those things together can do basic math.

[DJ Envy]

No kids coming to y' all with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all math homework. Y' all be confused as hell, but y' all can add up all of this foolishness. You know what I say? Get in the booth, man. I don't want to see no tweets, no hashtags, no memes. I want to see raps.

[Angela Yee]

Before I tell you what, Bonnie better be who Cardi is for Halloween, because that's actually really great. Actually, this is great. This will play into more of the rollout for the album. This is great action.

[DJ Envy]

But this is the thing. Everything that we talk about, we want artists to do, she did, right? Cardi did an album, right? All her feelings in an album, right? She put her feelings about her relationship. She put her feelings about these other female artists into her album, right? That's what we wanted.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And these are other artists that are going at us should do the same, right? We want to Hear records.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know how long marches.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe we might get some before that. She said writer while she's writing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to see raps right now. I don't want to see no tweets, no hashtags, no memes. I want to see raps, especially from Nikki, because Nikki is the rapper, and Nikki is not funnier than Cardi on social media at all. So get in the booth.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Before we move on from the tweets, though, I gotta get this one in. Because Nikki tweeted Raw dog and pregnant with the fourth baby, Barney B. Bv, hpv. Allegedly. And there's a photo of someone looking at their butt in the mirror. And Cardi responded to that and said that this is Nicki Minaj. This was the third tweet about Nicki Minaj bringing up her pregnancy. What, like, wasn't you going to fertility doctors because you couldn't reproduce from all of them? Perks scrambling your eggs? Allegedly. And Cardi said, not allegedly. Lord, protect my baby. So they were really getting into the things yesterday. And I know I saw JT trying to insert herself as well, but they.

[Angela Yee]

Didn'T even give her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nikki getting the booth, Cardi getting the booth. It's kind of inevitable, right? Like, when it comes to the guys, the two doc, the two top dogs always clash, right? So why should it be any different for the ladies? It's time for if Cardi and Nikki need to get in the booth.

[DJ Envy]

I don't mind the clash, but the.

[Angela Yee]

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[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

This week, on a very special episode of Health Discovered, we're taking a closer look at a condition that affects hundreds of thousands of men each year. Prostate cancer.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

I first found out about my cancer on my birthday at the age of 45. Found out my cancer has spread to my pelvic bone and from there, life just changed.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

About one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime and the risk increases with age.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

Anything with cancer, you just think death sentence.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the only thing I could think.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

About was who's going to take care of my family. You have to go out there and build your support system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to build your team.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

In this episode, we'll explore the science behind detection along with the practical steps men can take to protect their health. Listen to health discovered on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app, search health Discovered and start listening.

[Listeners / Callers]

All I know is what I've been.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Told and that's a half truth is a whole lie.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Listeners / Callers]

I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Listeners / Callers]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y' all said.

[Angela Yee]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Chris Gotti]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[DJ Envy]

I want them to rap.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying. Rap about the tweet. I just said that.

[Angela Yee]

They gotta wait to march.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No tweets, no hashtags, no memes. Where is the raps? Crazy, okay?

[Angela Yee]

And I know Jacques is pissed off. I know he, like, when I was up there saying everybody got mad at me, all the E riddles. I know they mad, but happy birthday, Frankie Lyman. He would have been 83 to die.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What love got to do with this? Listen, shoot and shoot. He was just shooting.

[DJ Envy]

Regardless. All right, that is the latest with Lauren. Just side note, I don't know if.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You guys knew that.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all know Luther Vandross was from the Bronx? No, Luther Vandross was from the Bronx.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said it was in the CNN documentary.

[DJ Envy]

It was in the documentary I seen. He was from the Bronx and he started singing an Apollo. The people at the Apollo in Harlem started managing him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Born in the. He was born in the Bronx.

[DJ Envy]

He was born in Bronx and raised in the Bronx.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, he's from the Bronx.

[Angela Yee]

So Luther get busy?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, absolutely. Next time you see crazy people from the Bronx, just remember Luther's from there.

[Angela Yee]

Not Lou. Lou is not crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Luther was not crazy.

[Angela Yee]

We got X Patty.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, when we come back, we got front page news. And then Chris Gotti, Irv Gotti's brother, one of the founders of Murder, Inc. Will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Show main the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Start off with some sports and Monday Night Football. The Dolphins beat the Jets 21 27, and the Broncos beat the Bengals 28. 3. What's up, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sending positive energy to Tyreek Hill, too, man. He got hurt last night.

[DJ Envy]

Dislocated his knee. They said.

[Angela Yee]

They said it looked bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Worse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Angela Yee]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I thought it was worse. I didn't know.

[DJ Envy]

No, that's what the initial reports are saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good. Good.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, so we start this hour with a rare and unusual gathering at the nation's top military leaders. Now all this is happening as the government faces a possible government shutdown. Now President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hesit, who now goes by the title Secretary of War, are set to speak today at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Hundreds of generals and admirals were told with just a few days notice to fly in from around the world for this last minute event. Now, Hegseth is supposed to open with a speech about what he calls warrior ethos. That's basically the mindset and discipline that keeps combat units sharp and lethal. He's also expected to emphasize tougher combat standards and even grooming rules, like troops being required to stay clean shaven. Then President Trump will follow with his own remarks, a moment that will reportedly be live streamed nationwide for the public to watch. Now, here's where the timing is striking. As we talked about last hour, this all comes as Congress is racing toward a midnight deadline to afford to avoid a government shutdown. So envy. I know we spoke about what this means for everyday people, but if you are a military personnel lawmaker say that if you don't reach a deal, 2 million US service workers could be forced to keep working without pay. The Pentagon's contingency plan says troops will still be on duty. Contractors would still keep building ships and missile systems, but operations at the border and overseas, those will also keep moving forward. But paychecks will stop until Washington reaches a deal. And while today's speeches may be framed as a morale boost or rallying the troops moment, experts say it's happening against a real backdrop of real uncertainty. Uncertainty. So if the government does shut down many of these military personnel, they will head back home to their bases and commands with no money to flow again. And a lot of experts are asking if this meeting could have been an email, a conference call. Many believe that it's going to be a photo op. So we'll see what happens as all these military leaders gather this morning in Quantico.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I've been thinking about this meeting. Like, you know, what is it about? You know, when you think about how they've been sending the National Guard into these cities, like, what are they planning? Like, what if they're having a conversation about what the military is willing to do? Because, you know, authoritarian regimes, you know, usually have some type of military under their control. Like, you know what? Like what? I don't know that. This is just, it's just strange. Like, why?

[Mimi Brown]

And they said that, too, it could be a pledge of loyalty. You know, we don't know exactly yet what the details are, but hopefully today after they have this meeting, we'll find out more about that, too. Charlemagne. And now, turning to the economy, the Trump administration is rolling out new a new wave of tariff tariffs, adding fresh import taxes on everything from the drugs in your medicine Cabinet to the cabinets in your kitchen. So beginning tomorrow, here's what's going to take effect. There will be 100% tariff on pharmaceutical drugs made overseas. A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture, and a 25% tariff on heavy duty trucks. Now, most of us aren't driving big rigs, but those trucks do haul your grocery, your clothes, your packages. And so if those costs go up, so do your price at the store. And the biggest hit could be on medicine. The U.S. imports about $230 billion worth of drugs last year. And 100% tariff could mean reduced access and higher insurance costs. And home projects would fill it to. A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and vanities means your remodeling prices will get higher.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Furniture.

[Mimi Brown]

And 30% on those upholstered furniture, that's all mostly made in China, means higher prices if you need to buy furniture at the store. So bottom line, whether it's medicine, meals, a makeover, these tariffs are going to hit hard. And just yesterday, Trump added Hollywood to that list, threatening a 100% tariff on movies made outside the U.S. now, experts say that will be really tough to enforce, but it shows just how wide this tariff net is spreading.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, a lot of people gonna get thoughts and prayers for the holidays, man. Like, you know, folks gonna have to remember the reason for the season this year.

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, you're absolutely right. I mean, with the amount of hikes like you said, everything from furniture to. To groceries to food, like you said, a lot of people just gonna get some.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gonna have to remember the reason for the season.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. A lot of people gonna be exercising their faith this year. All of a sudden, you wanna celebrate Jesus birthday, birthday, huh? Now you want to celebrate Kwanza ain't about to give this year, huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, that's it, y'. All.

[Mimi Brown]

Sylvester, front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me @mimi Brown TV. And for more stories, follow Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit bin news dot com. But I do agree, NB, it is coming a lot earlier than it usually comes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

October.

[Mimi Brown]

It does feel a little early for.

[DJ Envy]

This October 5th, like, what are we doing? All right, well, thank you, Mimi. All right, thanks, everybody else. When we come back, Chris Gotti will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course. Looked it up. What the three most popular holidays. Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas things. Yeah. Wow.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, Chris Gotti will be joining us. Of course, that's Irv Gotti's. Brother. He's one of the founders of Murder, Inc. And we're gonna talk to him when we come back. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren the Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed. We got Chris Gotti. Welcome to me, man.

[Listeners / Callers]

Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you for having me, man.

[Chris Gotti]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

First and foremost, brother, how you doing, brother?

[Chris Gotti]

How's everything, man? I'm blessed, you know, Just taking it one day at a time from everything, you know? But everything's going great. Got a lot of positive stuff happening, and that's why I'm here.

[DJ Envy]

All right. If you don't mind, I want to go back a little bit for people that don't know who Chris Gotti is, Of course. Irv Gotti's brother.

[Chris Gotti]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Irv got his big brother.

[Chris Gotti]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

For Queens, N.Y. hollis. And you guys been in the industry for a while. And you guys, both of y' all founded Murder, Inc. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Most people only hear Irv when thinking about Murder, Inc. But you were kind of the. The silent guy behind everything, so. So talk about how Murder, Inc. Or the Inc. Was founded.

[Chris Gotti]

It's Murder, Inc. We hated that we had to change that name. That was Russell Simmons and Leo and came to us and Ben Chavy and said, put Murder to bed, because we was dealing with the feds and everything. So Murder, Inc. Was founded because Irv wanted to be the biggest producer in the world. I helped make him that. They thought Irv came up with, like, I'm start a record label. He didn't start a label. He just wanted to be the biggest producer in the game. And that's what happened. And because that happened, Tom Mottola, Dave McPherson over at Sony, said, we want to give you a record deal. They told us they wanted to buy four beats at the time. We're selling beats for 250,000 of tracks. So that's a million dollars. I'm like, let's go get. We met up at Justin's, the restaurant. You know, Diddy's restaurant. We talk, and he's like, tommy wants to give you a deal. Not he doesn't want to buy Beats. And to our surprise, he pulls a contract out and look at it. Irv looked at it, and he threw it right back at him. Said, you serious? Send it to our lawyer. So that's really the bird for Murder, Inc. And we didn't have a name. We just came up with a bunch of things. DJ Clues doing the mixtape. Ja's doing a feature. And inside of that feature, we had a bunch of names we had thought of, like Lockdown Records. He says it. It in the. In the. His verses on the features on the. On the mixtape. And that's kind of where we was at. And then Irv was watching Austin Entertainment one day. He's Gangster Week, and he sees Murder Inc. On the screen. And it's the Notorious Murder, Inc. Which was the. The Italian guys that was actually making hits.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that was doing hits on people in Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

It's luckily Chiano, Alfred, Anastasia, and those guys. And the narrator of that. That show was like the Notorious Murder Rink. And they made hits. Irv went crazy. He went crazy. He called everybody. I got the name. But that's why if when you ask that question, how did it start? And if the co founders, that's the co founder. I helped make all of the music with them, with all of the producers, and I just took care of the business and I took care of my little brother. And Ja was always the first artist on another misconception. Ja was already signed a Murder Def Jam. So his first album, Vinovered Vici, it's on Def Jam. We just get the deal. But he already signed his deal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

People don't know that. So we had to go basically back to Lior and say, that's our artist. And then we had to pay for it to get him back to Murder.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Inc. How much did you have to pay?

[Chris Gotti]

A couple million dollars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah, look, we had to pay for Ashanti. She was signed to AJM Records, which is Shout Out Mario Baeza. Mario's like her uncle, and he has Ashanti. He wanted us to do records for Ashanti on his label. He had a little independent label, and Ashanti was there with him. And Irv didn't really think about doing anything. Irv would hit me with the tunnel vision, like, stay focused. Yo, we get money with Ja Rule. I'm like, yo, she could write. She's dope. And what broke that ice was Fat Joe. He called me up because he's doing a Big Pun album. And he says, I need that pun. I need a artist to R B artist on the hook. I said, I got one. He said, you do? I was like, yeah. I called her up. She drove right to the studio, pinned it. Joe's like, yo, she's dope. I said, all right, tell Irv.

[DJ Envy]

And I said, I went down.

[Chris Gotti]

And that's. He told Irv And Irv said what artist? And then he called me up right after. I was like what artist you talking about? Like my R B artist. And it was Ashanti. He's like what Artisan. Irv called me right after that. I said bring it to bring it back up. And that's really how we got Ashanti. But Irv was my little brother. I raised him, he listened to me up to a certain point. After that point I had to get someone else to. So I would send messages through all types of people to tell them do something to get it done. And that's what Joe did.

[DJ Envy]

I do want to ask you talk about. He doesn't listen. When got to his later life they said he was having health problems.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

They said nobody could talk to Irv.

[Chris Gotti]

About talking to him constantly.

[DJ Envy]

They said he wouldn't change his diet, he wouldn't change his thing. And they said nobody could get through to him. Why do you think that that was for her?

[Chris Gotti]

Partially because my pops was hard headed. He got it from my dad. So same exact thing going through diabetes, health problems. And my dad was like you can't tell me God didn't make this orange and I can't eat it. You can't. You know this was really our problem. And then it's the ignorance of just health. Irv was the same. He would be like there's no way you could tell me I can't eat this food. It's, it's good, it's. And he would tell you it's healthy and it was trash, you know and it was just hard headed. Now when he had his first stroke, he had two strokes. The first stroke basically he was, I man I didn't think he was going to be, be here for after that one. He was. I went to the hospital as soon as I heard I flew right to la. Shout out bj. BJ found him. Yeah. You know, picked him up, got him to the hospital. When he came around he's like I don't want to go to the hospital. Don't take me to the hospital. I'm gonna take my meds now. And BJ was like no. He said so stand up. And he couldn't, he stood up and fell back down and see I know you're going to the hospital. Took him to the hospital. I didn't know he's going to get past the that one. I flew out there. He was there for, I was there for a month and a half in the hospital staying with him. When he took about two weeks before he Actually came back and was conscious. But those first two weeks I didn't think it was going to make it. I always credit. I said BJ gave us another year basically before the next one, you know, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But somebody told me there was a, a sense of acceptance that he had. And he would say, he would say things like I'm going, I'm going to see Poppy. I'm going to be with Pop.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah, yeah. He wrote if you've seen his gram.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[Chris Gotti]

And I would always, when I seen it, I would call him like, stop talking like that. I don't believe in calling off of death like that unless you really have a death wish. I was like, yo, stop talking. You'll see him when it's your time. Well, I used to say Irv used to feel like he's God. Probably at one point when we was at the height of Murder Inc. He probably felt like he was the alpha and omega at one point.

[DJ Envy]

And you think he new when he sold part of his catalog, right?

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah, no, he sold it all. Well, he, he ir on 50% of the masses. We had a 50 50. So we had 50%. He sold it. Did it. It was a 300 million dollar deal. 100 in cash, 200 for movies and TV pro products projects.

[DJ Envy]

Do you think he knew at that time to set his kids up to be like if something does happen, every kid have that. Do you think that was the mentality?

[Chris Gotti]

IRV is 100% family. So yeah, yeah, that's definitely part of it. And it's also part of health. You know, just want to make sure like you said things is there for somebody no matter what. Cuz Irv accepted death. He always, he would always accept death if that was the consequence. Whatever it is. We both do. Like I don't ever look at the consequence of whatever is right. The preciousness of life. Think about that. Like we're here for such a short amount of time, but we never thought or thought about anything like that. Irv's no different. And that's why when he got sick and he would tell me like if this is what it is, this is what it is. But he didn't try to prevent it. And no one talks mortality, especially when you're young. But it's coming and we don't know when. That's the reality too. We don't have. No one knows that expiration date.

[DJ Envy]

How did you navigate with Irv having problems with, with all of y' all friends. Like one time Irv was not messed with hov then it was Fat Joe, then it was dmx, then it was Nas. Like, how did you navigate that part of it, cuz?

[Chris Gotti]

Family's fight. Irv made a ton of mistakes. If he was here, like, here or not, I'm gonna always speak the reality of what it was. Irv made a lot of mistakes. For instance, with Jay Z, Nas, they beefing. Irv made super. You know, he produced that record. To go after that and talk to Jay Z and say, I'm. Yo, I'm gonna sign Nas. What you think? Of course, we're in Baseline Studios.

[DJ Envy]

What did hov say before Irv spoke?

[Chris Gotti]

I said, I'll give you the PG version. But I told him, whatever you want to do, I'm with you. And then Irv's like, yo, it's good business. And he's telling him, it's like, yo, are you crazy? You can't tell your man you want to work with his enemy like that. And Irv's like, nah, it's just on. Jay was like, you know, he was asking him, does he have real beef with him? He said, nah, it's just like music. But Jay's keeping it cordial, like to see where Irv is going with it. Jay plays chess. He's not playing. Like, he wants to see what you gonna say. And Irv, as soon as Jay said, it's not beef like that, he turned to me, he said, I told you. I told you. And Jay looking at me like, yo, is he serious? And I was like, wow, he's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And n never signed with Murder Angle.

[Chris Gotti]

Nah. Steve Stouton. Ooh, Steve Stout. Shout out Steve, man. But the commission is. He's. He's in that day, he was a real hands on guy. He's the one that brought the deal to us. And Irv was like, you serious? We could get Nas. Like, we didn't think we could get that. And he was like, yeah, we made the record. The Pledge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Chris Gotti]

Nas pledging allegiance to murdering. Think about that. That he's on the record pledging allegiance to murdering. And then Stout seeing the future, in my opinion. And again, to his credit, I. Again, I'm not knocking Stout. This dude is brilliant in the book of hip hop. He has one of the most iconic people in that book. The end of the day, he's seen the future. What's the future? Come on. Murdering. We're murdering. What's the future? 50 Cent. He's saying it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He knew it.

[Listeners / Callers]

It.

[Chris Gotti]

He knew it. Ja had a sneaker deal with, with Steve Reebok. We on a private Plane flying. They designing everything in the. In the. You know, in the plane. And then he seen the future and pulled everything and switched it. Now, G Unit got his sneaker deal. Jay Z got his sneaker deal, you understand, with Reebok. And again, he knew.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[Chris Gotti]

He seen something and understood and made the pivot. As a businessman, I respect expected the question why did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why was Jay, as a friend, It's a little questionable. I get that. That's what I'm saying. Why was Jay upset with Irv, but not Steve? And Steve presented the deal, but Steve was also.

[Chris Gotti]

Remember, Steve was also part of a lot of. That's why Damon always has obvious. Because of that. Steve was funneling a lot of deals with Jay. And then seeing Jay getting pulled that way, instead of going through dame and dealing with the. You know, that side of it. I understand that they would have took a bullet for Jay. You kidding me? In that day. Are you kidding me? It's not even close. It's not. It's. That's what makes me mad with that situation.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna say, how do you feel about the situation?

[Chris Gotti]

I spoke to Jay about that before one time. I told him. And I just left it alone after that.

[DJ Envy]

How do you feel it when you see it play out? Because you see how close they were. You were on tours, you were in studios.

[Chris Gotti]

There's a lot of stuff that's personal again, inside of a family that we wouldn't know that I don't know. That's. I'll leave it there. And then you gotta let families be what they are because of what it is. I respect both of them to the highest level. You know, at the end of the day, I leave it alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And didn't Jay get back? Didn't. I think. I think I heard you tell a story about how when Jay used Irv's same line again. Oh, yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

Oh, yeah. The same lie. Cause Irv was like, when. When Jay told him that it wasn't really more. It wasn't like physical beef. It was more lyrical. And Irv went crazy, like I told you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then.

[Chris Gotti]

But Jay's looking at him like, you my man. You can't be, like, serious, like. But left it alone. Chess. He's playing chess. And then right after that, Jay went and did a tour with 50 Cent. They got the G Unit sneaker. He has his. Remember he had his, like, Gucci. Yeah. And they went out on the tour, and then Irv meet up. Irv sat there and he's like, yeah, I just went out. He said, yeah, it was good business, cuz Irv told Jay it would be good business to do this. It's going to be good business.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I might have not.

[Chris Gotti]

But what he's not realizing, and Irv knew it after the fact, you know, hindsight is 20 20. He realized that was one of his biggest mistakes with Jay. It took a lot to fix that, but they did.

[DJ Envy]

They finally did fix it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

We had multiple conversations, but, you know, it wasn't never the same. What's that record? And Jay says, gotta consult Irv. Gotta. Y', all. Hey, kids got to roll, right? That's a fact. Jay took that off every Forward record. Think about how serious that is. That he said, no, I don't want to hear that no more. You can't get that unless you have the old original. It's bleeding out. It's bleeped out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know that.

[Chris Gotti]

It's called remastering, baby. Yeah. Gone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I remember.

[Chris Gotti]

That does not exist. Go get that. Go get that record and see if you could hear it. Go to Apple Music and see if you hear it. I. I'm bad with titles as much as I. I'm terrible with titles and names and stuff. I don't remember the title record on Streets is watching.

[DJ Envy]

But it's only a customer. Customer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Only a custom.

[Chris Gotti]

Jay used to sit in my office, literally, to wait, to talk to Irv. That's how deep that was. And Irv, when he come in, they go in there. But Irv would help him with all types of business ideas, thoughts, every. He respected Irv's brain. I'll leave it there now.

[DJ Envy]

The Fat Joe thing. Y' all can never. I'm sorry. The Fat Joe thing. Y' all could. Cause Fat Joe and Irv was like, we fixed that.

[Chris Gotti]

Y' all fixed that with Joe and Irv again, never the same. He was at my man Junior's funeral. And, you know, I told Joe again, I'm my brother's keeper. I told Joe, you messed up, Roy. And I went at Joe and told him, and he's like. Like, he understood. We was at say Less, actually, and I was having a meeting with my niece and Saint from Interscope Records. And I didn't want to go and deal with this right now. And my other dude, Big Joe, kept coming, say, yo, Fat Joe's over. Come on, come on. I said, I don't want to talk right now. He forced me to talk. So I said, all right, let me go talk. And when I went to back days with Rich, of course, yeah, Rich And Joe. And I told him. I said, you can't shout out, my brother's a sucker, and then whisper, I'm sorry, that's a sucker move. And I told him that, you know, I asked him all kind of crazy questions because that's just me. It's like, was you messing with Ashanti? Is that your girl? You found her because of us. What are you doing interfering? They had a relationship. What are you doing? I said, and listen. I promise you go listen to anything. All Irv did was yell how much he loved me, her in the way he's talking about every. You could tell as a man, he loved that woman. He was heartbroken. But I said, how do you tell me you love this girl? And you out with everybody else. That don't make no sense. He kept getting caught with other, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, what are you doing, bro?

[Chris Gotti]

But that's her. That dessert. He wanted his cake and eat it, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And.

[Chris Gotti]

And that's the reality of that whole thing. But it's crazy. Like, every time I say, just listen, everyone talks all crazy. Just listen to what he's saying. Listen to the words. Don't just hear his. He's. He's speaking loud. With Lorenzo's, we speak loud. But at the end of the day, listen to what he's really saying. And Irv is not a liar. He is telling you the truth about her, about him. I was their counsel, meaning when they would fight. I'm over the Four Seasons with Irv, and I'm at the Ritz Carlton with Ashanti talking to me. What did he say? What did she say? Trying to keep him cool. Never took Irv's side while Irv was here. Here, Never. So I. All I said is, I'm not gonna lie now. I'm not gonna talk about nothing, but I'm not gonna lie either. Like, you can't ask me to do that. He's not here no more. He can't even say, if I hear something wrong, I will correct you. But that's it. That's just for respect for my brother. But I never. Irv hated that. I never took his side with him. Hated it. Like, that was something I had to deal with with him. And I'm like, yo, that's your relationship. You know, that's your business. This is over here. He was like, she didn't come to the trial. I said, she was at the trial, girl. Yeah. Cause Darcelle called her. I said. I called her. I called her and said, you should be there. And she showed up. What more do you want. That's the fact.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have you and Ashanti been able to talk since everything. Because I saw that you were upset with her when she sat down with Angie Martinez, and she said that I was upset.

[Chris Gotti]

Cause we haven't spoken, spoke in person after Irv's passing. Imagine that. And I promise you, I'm the reason she was murdering more. Irv made the records. But Irv would have never got to that point. If I don't do what I did. I used to fly up to Jersey, giving her music to make record after record. If I don't put it on the pun, it never happens. And I did that. She knows it. For her not to call me after Irv's passing, she texts me, that. That don't feel right. Her mother, Tina, that don't feel right. You understand? Like, I did everything for them. Never did. I did one thing in return. I'm not gonna sit here and sugarcoat nothing. And that's why I felt the way. And then when I see, I'm like, nah, that's not cool. You know, there's so much details of the murdering history that we don't know or the public doesn't know. Ashanti, we. We didn't have her signed, and we put Foolish out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah. Number one record in the country, and she's not signed. You know how much it costs us to get her from that little AJM records? $5 million out of our pack.

[DJ Envy]

5.

[Chris Gotti]

Cause we got a hit record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah, we got a hit record on her. So now he's. The number's up 5 million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What made y' all put the record out before she was Irv.

[Chris Gotti]

Irv moves with his heart. Leo said, I'm not gonna pay for nothing. Irv's like, we going. It's timing. You know, success is number one. Reason for success is timing. She knows we had to pay that money. But look, Irv said loyalty. He figured that's what hurt him. See, this is the part that hurt him. He's thinking, she's gonna be loyal with me on just business things and stuff. And again, then it turned into relationship, too. Cause in that moment. Moment, he wasn't messing with her yet. He just seen a talented young girl, and that's it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did want to ask you about the funeral because. Because ho came to the funeral.

[Chris Gotti]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Didn't I thought Ashanti came to the funeral.

[Chris Gotti]

She did not. She sent some flowers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, what about Joe?

[Chris Gotti]

That Joe did not. His father. His father passed. Same time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Got you, got you.

[Chris Gotti]

Joe came late Actually, Joe was there late.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you.

[Chris Gotti]

He left his fathers and got to us late. I. I seen him after.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

At the end.

[Chris Gotti]

End when it was almost over. He did get there. Sorry, Joe. Yeah. He wasn't in the beginning, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was gonna ask you. He mentioned the flowers and I know she. Ashanti had posted a statement online. Did that. I know you said that you want to talk in person, but, like, did that provide any sort of comfort for you guys in that moment? Just having things show up there from her.

[Chris Gotti]

I don't know how to answer that, really. It's like. I mean, I got sick over her, man. I got sick physically after he literally in the hospital, like. And they. What is it? Stress? What's the stress? It's my brother. He's here right now, like. But I got through it. I have to, like I said. So when you say that with the. The flowers, it's a good gesture. It's a good gesture. I won't go further than that. I don't want to be disrespectful to her because she probably thinks it's good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Should.

[Chris Gotti]

But she should know better that she had to talk to me physically. Actually, she should come see me physically. I. I love Ashanti, you know what I'm saying? That's little. That's like little sis. For real. For real. We took care of her in every sense of the imagination. She. She confessed me one day afterwards and she thanked me for everything we did for her. Because now she's out there by herself and she's getting all type of indecent proposals. Let's leave it at that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Chris Gotti]

Because that's what this industry is. Let's not make any sugar coating about it. It's an attractive young lady. She wants to make music. What could you do with this? You want that beat? Okay, let's go over here. And she told me. She told me and she was like, thank you. She thanked me for always taking care of it. On versus, you know, she's with Nelly. Shout out Nelly. I have no problem with these. Nothing. I with Nelly. But on versus, the day of versus, he pulls up and I said, what do you want to do? Asked her, like, she come up and you ask her, what do you want to do? I'll roll this off the stage. She said, no, I'll give you the sign if there's a problem. But that's the day they got back together. That's why you don't get in the middle of relationships. Yeah, it's different. That's why I never got in it when Irving. Her were together. I never did. I just tried to keep it cool with them and keep the business moving.

[Angela Yee]

I could have swore. It was reported that she went to the funeral. Okay, so she just sent you a test?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they lied.

[Chris Gotti]

They did put a report that she was there. They lied again. She probably got a good publicist or something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She had said that she tried to. There was an olive branch or whatever that she tried to extend or was extended, but it wasn't received well. So you think that that's why. Why she kind of.

[Chris Gotti]

She text me and she didn't text me. If I show you the date, she text me. It's late. You understand? He's gone already. So just put this in without me going deep. He's gone. And then I get a text after he's gone a couple days. She got my number. She could.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like you'd appreciated a call.

[Chris Gotti]

I would appreciate it. A visit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I get what you're saying.

[Chris Gotti]

I understand. It's like I said, we did a lot, you know, and she could say whatever she wants about a relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She. She.

[Chris Gotti]

Whatever. But you can't lie about her career. Who can? Who can sit there and say she did something more than what. What it is like, yeah, she wrote the records with him. She hated every hit record. How about that? So what if we listen to her? Does she become Ashanti? That's the facts, baby. Baby. She hated that.

[Angela Yee]

Well, it was too many babies.

[Chris Gotti]

It's one of my favorite records. Irv went in the booth and told her, you gotta sing like this. He said, you gotta feel like you, You. You high. You don't get high. That's why you don't know what it is. That's what he told her. And he said, you got to be strung out on a man that way. And he's so. I don't want to hear it. Pitch perfect. I sound stupid. Gotti, sing it like that. And she did. See, I give credit for the listening. A producer has to be able to produce or else you just a beat man, right? And you're leaving it in the hands of an artist. And then that's the reality. If you trust that producer, which they trusted her, they was able to get through and make those changes. She compromised her own belief for his, which is to her credit. But that's the. That's the beauty of a producer. And that's to me, Irv is a producer. For real. For real.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, man, great conversation.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Chris Gotti]

I Gotta talk about one more thing thing before we get off. I got a movie. I'm a filmmaker now.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Chris Gotti]

Nice balling. I got Lance Stevenson is my lead. Safari. Trey Cheney.

[Angela Yee]

Shout out to Trey Cheney, the basketball player.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's the lead. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow. He's the lead.

[Chris Gotti]

Not only is he lead, but he made an incredible soundtrack. Lance them is the black Drake. He's the black Drake. I promise you. He's singing and racing, rapping on the songs. And I couldn't believe I was gonna just make one or two songs for the movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why not Safari, though? Why would you get Safari to do this?

[Chris Gotti]

I, I Again, I asked, but you.

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[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

This week, on a very special episode of Health Discovered, we're taking a closer look at a condition that affects hundreds of thousands of men each year. Prostate cancer.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

I first found out about my cancer on my birthday at the age of 45. Found out my cancer had spread to my pelvic bone. And from there, life just changed.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

About one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. And the risk increases with age.

[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

Anything with cancer, you just think death sentence. And the only thing I could think about was, who's going to take care of my family. You have to go out there and build your support system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gotta build your team.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

In this episode, we'll explore the science behind detection, along with the practical steps men can take to protect their health. Listen to health discovered on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app. Search health discovered and start listening.

[Listeners / Callers]

All I know is what I've been.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Told and that's a half truth is a whole lie.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Listeners / Callers]

I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Listeners / Callers]

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[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.

[Chris Gotti]

That y' all said.

[Angela Yee]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Chris Gotti]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Cancer Patient / True Crime Guest]

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[Chris Gotti]

I come in, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought you said he was in the movie. He's in the movie. Okay.

[Chris Gotti]

But he didn't come to the studio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you, got you.

[Chris Gotti]

You gotta come.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's probably for the best.

[Chris Gotti]

You know, I'm gonna. Since you said shout out. Safari. Go watch it. Decide.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, it's already out.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

What is it called?

[Chris Gotti]

Balling.

[Angela Yee]

Ballin'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

On tv.

[Chris Gotti]

No, it's a. It's. It's based off of Alfred Hitchcock movie called Dial in for Murder. The way the plot twist is, we just put the culture for today with people like us, and we're doing it for the black and brown. So I'm not Latin, but I do Latin. With my partner, Don de Niro, man. We just finished Spanish fly, a crazy movie, a comedy, you know what I'm saying? So we got. We got it all.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not Spanish, man.

[Angela Yee]

He said he not, but he works.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah, I got a partner that's Cuban and he's my partner. He does all the Latin side for me. But I, you know, support him with everything he's doing. You know, it's funny because on my Wikipedia, someone put down their cool cuz people could add stuff. I never did my w. He does.

[DJ Envy]

Mine, too, all the time. He called me a gardener. He started on mine.

[Chris Gotti]

And I'm Dominican, so I'm an honorary Dominican, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Chris Gotti, it's the breakfast club. Good morning. Let's get right to the latest with Lauren.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren be coming a straight f. She.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gets him from somebody that knows somebody. Somebody. She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the. The latest with Lauren larosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything on the breakfast Club talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we did. We just got an exclusive. I just spoke to Tyrese. Tyrese is speaking out for the first time on the Atlanta police, issuing what has been reported as a warrant over a deadly camera cane corso attack by dogs that he owned previously. So for background, the story broke yesterday that there were four cane corsos that were under surveillance that came back to Tyrese after Atlanta police officers say that they bit and brutally killed another dog. So at this time, Fulton county police, they're reporting that animal services captain Nicole Dewar announced. Announced that Tyrese has a warrant out for his arrest for animal cruelty. Now, what she told Atlanta media is that they received a phone call September 18th from a neighbor that from a neighbor who let his dog out at night only to find the dog dead on the ground minutes later from a clear cut animal attack. Now, according to law enforcement, Tyrese was warned multiple times about the king corso prowling the neighborhood. The direct quote is it is negligence on his part as a homeowner and to just let the dog roam free. And now they've killed an innocent animal. The police say that they obtained this warrant and that they plan to search Tyrese's home and like all these things. So Tyrese, I spoke to him and he says, number one, now, when they.

[DJ Envy]

Said search the home, they're not searching the home for anything but the dogs. They just want. They want to get the dogs.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What usually when A dog doesn't bite. Just explain anybody. When a dog bites anybody or a person or anything else, they take the dogs for 30 days to make sure the dog doesn't have rabies or there's nothing else wrong with the dog. So it's like doggy jail.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So they put the dog in the county for 30 days.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they do.

[Chris Gotti]

For real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The search already happened, which is why the warrant was issued. So they went to his house. On September 22, there was a search. Tyrese nor the dogs were there looking for the dog. Yeah. So then that's where the whole warrant conversation came from. But Tyrese tells us exclusively that he is not on the run. He is in LA with his family and that his attorneys are dealing with all of this. If there was any obligation for him to turn himself in at this day, this time, what, it would have been done already. But he says that that is not the case. That is not what's happening.

[DJ Envy]

He said there was a rumor that he was going to Dubai. He said he's not going to Dubai. He's actually with his family.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, and so he posted he was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Going to Dubai, but he posted. He always did this around this time of year. No, his birthday is, I think, in December, So he always travels.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but they made. I guess they made it seem like he was running to Dubai.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Follow Tyrese. He does this every year. He's talking about how he's going to different places.

[DJ Envy]

He said he's in LA with his family.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, so he also shot us a statement as well. And in the statement, he's speaking directly to the family. He's saying that, you know, his heart is broken for the family that lost their dog, and he's praying for their healing for their beloved over, you know, the death of their beloved pet who never deserves this. He says that he remains committed to facing this matter with honesty, responsibility, and compassion. He's, you know. He also says that since the day he learned of the tragedy, he's been actively trying to reach out to the family directly to express his sorrow and condolences. He knows nothing can undo their loss, but he wants them to know he is truly heartbroken. Until this incident, the statement goes on, the dogs had never harmed a child, a person, or another dog. This is a tragic. A tragic event that is shocking and traumatizing for Tyrese, his family. So he can only imagine how devastating it has to be on the family who lost their pet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What if you call top dog law, that represents you in a case.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, God. Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Plan. Here's the thing, though, I'm not taking butt so much as responsibility for my animal. Do you know, back in the day, they used to put animals on trial?

[Angela Yee]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they did. This is a fact. Y' all should read more.

[Angela Yee]

When.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Where?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, in the. Like in medieval times. In, like, now.

[Angela Yee]

You should read more. Just tell us what happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Back in the medieval times, like, in, like, Europe, they used to put the dogs and the pigs on trial.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

And what. But what would they say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what they would say. You know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

Like what? Like how. How would this even be an animal trial? Like, for something like understanding, Like, Tyrese ain't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tyrese didn't go bite the dog and kill him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And Tyrese said he was out of town when all this went down, wasn't even there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But this is what I'm saying.

[Angela Yee]

He is the owner.

[DJ Envy]

It's the sad thing about being a dog owner, or if you own any type of animal, it's your responsibility, right? And as a. If you own dogs, you try to make sure that you protect anybody, right? You keep your dog in. In a. In, you know, in the fence, or you have an invisible fence, or you keep the dog on the leash. But dogs are like anything else. They chew through the leash, they dig under the fence, they slide through. There's nothing. At times. Times there's nothing that you can do. You try your best animals. But the sad thing about it is, if your dog hurts somebody else or hurt somebody animal, another animal, you're responsible.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In France, there was a time in France, they put a pig on trial for attacking a child, and they executed.

[Angela Yee]

The pig, and they put it on the trial. And with, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who was the lawyer?

[Angela Yee]

Dr. Doolittle?

[DJ Envy]

No, but if a dog does more a kid or bite somebody, they usually put the dog. No, the actual owner of the dog has to go to court, and they usually put that dog to sleep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all think we stupid animals don't go to court.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't talking to y' all no more. Y' all gonna. Y'. All. The Internet will tell you later, and you'll believe it.

[DJ Envy]

I do also, but it's sad because those people, you know, lost their dog, you know, which is. Which is very sad.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And Tyrese says he takes full responsibility. Even though he was out of town, he takes full responsibility and accepts that responsibility for his dogs. He says as soon as he learned what. What happened, he made the difficult decision to re home his two dogs and their three puppies to news and Safe living homes, you know, because the liability of keeping them was too great. He doesn't want to hurt anybody. He only got these dogs to protect himself because he was dealing with a stalker situation. But he didn't want this to happen, and he's deeply sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. In 1921, terrier named Dormy was put on trial for allegedly killing 14 cats. Ended in a hung jury jury with 11 jurors voting to acquit and one for conviction. Dormy walked free, and the case attracted widespread media attention.

[Chris Gotti]

I. I hate him.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Once again, the Internet will tell you later and you'll believe. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But it's.

[Chris Gotti]

It's sad.

[DJ Envy]

So I'm sure Tyrese will probably have to. You know, he will probably replace that dog if they want a replacement, and I'm sure they'll probably.

[Chris Gotti]

So.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never knew Tyrese had dogs.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You said what he's posted about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. I've never seen everything else.

[DJ Envy]

No, no. There's a bunch of posts of his cane courses. He had a mother and father, and he built a kennel. The kennel had heat and air conditioning and lights and plugs and all types of stuff in it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's got the big doggy apartments that Envy got.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, the big dog.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a Transformer when you walk in the house.

[Angela Yee]

I know that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Optimus Prime.

[Angela Yee]

You're a clown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm dead serious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know in Tyrese, you probably are saying serious.

[DJ Envy]

No, he does have one. He has a huge transform.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's actually Bumblebee.

[DJ Envy]

Bumblebee.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. When you walk in.

[DJ Envy]

But the sad thing about it is, if. If you have a family, the best protection is that dog. Right. Because that dog is going to bark when it hears something. It's going to be the first mode of protection, especially if you're not home. If you're the man in the house, you're not home. Your wife and your kids are there.

[Angela Yee]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

You want that protection. But sometimes if a dog gets out, it's. What can you do?

[Angela Yee]

That is so. But happy birthday, T. Pain. He's gonna wake up and go off today. Can we. Oh, T. Pain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Cause it's the birthday. He gonna turn up, not go off. But, yeah, he gonna go in. We got some T. Pain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course we got. Till the time T. Pain ran black radio.

[Angela Yee]

I have so many T. Pain favorites, I can't even name one. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Classic.

[Angela Yee]

It could have been booty work. It could have been. It could have been. And something for me to shake my ass to. Come on now, can you guys turn.

[Chris Gotti]

Up bartender or Love with a stripper.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Or that my ringtone. I don't know why in love with a Stripper was my ringtone.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, well, while he's pulling that up, Charlemagne, who you giving that donkey to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man 4 After the hour, There's a guy named Lorenz Cross who needs to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with him. I don't even know how to describe Lorenz man. But I do know that I need to let y' all know this is a very disturbing story, okay? And I don't even know why I got to tell y' all it's a disturbing story because y' all love true crime podcasts and murder mysteries any goddamn way. So whatever.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

And then after, we'll open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Bad Bunny. People are upset he's doing the Super Bowl. Listen, I know his songs are in Spanish. They're saying people are not going to understand it, and they're pissed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not like white problems.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we'll talk about it. Donkey the Day is up next. Don't be out here acting like a donkey.

[Chris Gotti]

Time for Donkey of the Day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm a big boy. I could take it. If he feel I deserve it. Ain't no big deal.

[Angela Yee]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say something you may not agree with.

[DJ Envy]

Doesn't mean I'm mean, who's getting that donkey?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That donkey that don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Donkey of the Day right there. The Breakfast Club.

[Chris Gotti]

You can call me the Donkey of the Day, but, like, I mean no harm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Donkey of the day for Tuesday, September 30th goes to a man named Lorenz Cross. Cross. Okay. Lorenz is 53 years old and he's from upstate New York, I believe. Albany, I think it is. And he's just one of these people who doesn't know the difference between illusion and reality. You already know. I blame that on social media, okay? The virtual reality that social media creates, the alternative reality it allows us to live in, really have people not knowing what's real and what's not real. But more importantly, it has people thinking they don't have to answer for anything they do, okay? It has people believing there is absolutely zero consequences to their actions. You see it all the time. People get killed. And then they kill him. Goes live and starts discussing it with people online. Like, what they just did is not criminal. Like, you just didn't take a life. Now you Online admitting to a crime that is going to get you life and it's not an age thing, okay? No. People of all generations in this era think they can just do and say whatever with zero consequences. Exhibit A, 53 year old Lorenz Cross. See, Lorenz Cross decided to contact a local news outlet, local news outlet, CBS 56, because he wanted to do what most people like to do nowadays, and that's chat. Okay. He wanted to do an interview because he wanted to get some things off his chest. He had some things he wanted to confess. Well, what could he have possibly wanted to confess? Well, I'm going to tell you right now, this clip is disturbing and may trigger you. Just letting you know, I don't know why we have to say things like that to y' all and anymore, because true crime is the number one genre in podcasting and y' all love watching murder mysteries on Lifetime. But here you go. Let's go to CBS News 56 for the report. Please, please.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

Arrested 53 year old Lorenz Krause in upstate New York after he confessed to killing his parents and then burying them in the backyard of their home eight years ago. Officials say they were investigating why the couple were receiving Social Security payments despite. Despite not being seen for years. Now Kraus sat down with Craig Floyd from our affiliate at CBS 6 Albany, where he made the stunning confession.

[Chris Gotti]

Did one parent, did your mom or your dad more so than the other, ask you to take their lives? They didn't explicitly say that, but they made it clear that they were going downhill when it actually happened. When your parents died, did they know what was happening to the. Oh, yeah. And they knew it was at your hand? Well, yes. No one else's. So they, they realized what you were doing to them as it happened?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Chris Gotti]

They knew that this was it for them, that they were perishing at your hand?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Chris Gotti]

And it was so quick. How did you do it? Yeah, I won't, I can't talk about that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you've just told us that.

[Chris Gotti]

Right. It was at your hand. Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Were there drugs involved?

[DJ Envy]

Was there a suffocation?

[Chris Gotti]

Was that you suffocated of them?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

Which parent did you, did you suffocate first? My father and he. After he died, my mother put her head on his chest and she was there for a few hours and then I finished her.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, I know Vlad is somewhere like, damn, how I missed that one. Now I got some issues to ask about this situation. Number one, everybody is content over everything nowadays. Everybody. Okay. Because according to the news report, this Guy Lorenz sent a two page statement to news outlets with his phone number. So Stone Grissom, the TV station's news director, called him and Lorenz Cross told him he buried his parents in his yard. Then he asked Lorenz if he killed them. And Lorenz said, I plead the Fifth. So Grissom told him, I promise I will post your statement statement on the TV station's website if you agree to come in for an interview. And Lorenz agreed. Okay. They even checked Lorenz to make sure he was unarmed when he was arrived. Now they did have a plain clothes police officer in the front lobby. But my question is, why didn't the TV news director report this to the police as soon as he got the information? Why would an interview be scheduled? Why would an interview be conducted? He should have been detained and bought in for questioning as soon as he stepped foot in that lobby. But people put content over everything. Should he have been interviewed? Yes. Yes. By police. Okay. Now, Albany County Assistant Public Defender Rebecca Sokol, who is representing Lorenz Cross said he would be said she would be looking into how the interview came about because in her words, if the media was essentially an agent of police in this matter, that could raise questions about whether Loren's comments in the interview would be legally admissible at trial. Listen, I'm not about to sit here and act like I know what any of that means legally. I just know morally, ethically, and common senselessly. If I get an email from someone telling me they buried their parents in the backyard, my next thought is not going to be, you know what? Let's book him for the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Nope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. It also says a lot about the times we are in that Lorenz wanted to do an interview. I know criminals seeking fame for crimes is not new, but the fact he gave this interview and thought he was just going to walk out and go enjoy some Waffle House afterwards says a lot about this era. Please let Remy Ma give Lorenz Cross the biggest. He haw. He haw.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You stupid.

[Angela Yee]

Are you dumb?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why.

[Angela Yee]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Angela Yee]

What race is it?

[DJ Envy]

Are you gonna play a game?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me look.

[DJ Envy]

Look, first let's play because he don't.

[Angela Yee]

Sound like his name. Now, Lorenz, I know one Lorenz that's.

[DJ Envy]

Playing power, but yes, I think he's my Lorenzo thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, that's the same damn person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm looking at him, right?

[Angela Yee]

Asses. No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, different power.

[Angela Yee]

I mean, but then when I heard his voice, he sound like Jeffrey D. So let's play a game. Yes, I do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Let's play a game of guess what? Racist. This should be so easy. Lorenz Cross, 53 years old, from upstate New York, killed his parents, buried him in the backyard, then decided to do an interview. Interview about it and thought he was just gonna walk free after the interview. Guess what? How do you say. Why do you say white?

[Chris Gotti]

Huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you on fentanyl this morning?

[Angela Yee]

Yes, he is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I knew. I knew Latinos was gonna be wilding after Bad Bunny got the super bowl, but you've been just ridiculous, Jess. Hilarious. Black Lorenzo Cross, 53 years old, killed both his parents, buried him in the backyard, then went and did an interview about it and thought he was just going to walk free. Guess what? Racist.

[Angela Yee]

Like, no, he white.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's just stupid.

[Angela Yee]

But, yes, definitely. Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, DJ Envy.

[Angela Yee]

Is it a picture?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

DJ Envy. Just hilarious. I want y' all both to know that you are absolutely correct. Oh, my God.

[Angela Yee]

So disturbed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He look. Jeffrey Dahmer, Caucasian. Yes, he did. Ted Bundy, Caucasian. Charles Benson, Caucasian. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord.

[Angela Yee]

And that's so crazy that he did this in Albany. And I'm going to Albany October 11th and the 12th for comedy shows at the Funny Bone. So get your tickets if you want to enjoy some laughter after grieving.

[DJ Envy]

He won't be there.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I'm glad he won't. I'm glad he won't. Okay, but y' all get your [e-mail].

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'S if you see him sitting in the front row. Something wrong? Yeah, I know.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now, just to let you know, we're on Twitch right now, so we're streaming on Twitch. You can go to Breakfast Club Am, and we're gonna take some of your. We're gonna go to the chat off this one. So we're asking 800-585-1051. Bad Bunny is performing at the super bowl this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This year.

[DJ Envy]

How do you feel about it? People are upset. They say he performs primarily in Spanish. And some people say that they're not going to understand what he's saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who are these people?

[DJ Envy]

A lot of people are saying that. They're saying, are they wearing ice jackets?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are these people.

[Angela Yee]

That is so messed up.

[DJ Envy]

And they're also saying because Bad Bunny is so outspoken a critic of Donald Trump, and he's been vocal about an advocate for Latinx rights, and what artists.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Could they get wouldn't be outspoken to Donald Trump? Kid Rock.

[DJ Envy]

So that is talking about that is the question. 800-585-1105. When people are saying that, you know, the football league is. Is 20%, I think less than 20% Latin. The people that actually play in the league. And they're saying that they're not going to know what Bad Bunny's saying.

[Angela Yee]

But that's why you going to bring out Jocelyn Hernandez.

[Chris Gotti]

That's what they say.

[Angela Yee]

You going to bring out some other people.

[DJ Envy]

They're saying that he's not performing in English and that's the problem. I. I don't care cuz.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz you're Dominican.

[DJ Envy]

No music is a vibe. Turn up a little bit. Turn us up a little bit.

[Angela Yee]

My husband is so happy about that.

[DJ Envy]

You just want a vibe to this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I definitely don't want to hear that.

[Angela Yee]

That's a Mexican beat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People so confused. Imagine you deaf watching closed caption and you hear what Envy was just doing. What the hell?

[DJ Envy]

10:51, let's discuss is the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's topic time.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ and Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, Bad Bunny's performing at this year's super bowl and people are upset. They're mad. They're saying that he primarily performs in Spanish and they're saying that people are not going to understand or really vibe with the music during the halftime show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did they feel like that when Shakira performed? Did they feel like that when JLO performed? Shakira and JLO perform together?

[Angela Yee]

I don't even know.

[DJ Envy]

But JLO sings in English, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. Well, I don't know. I didn't know Bad Bunny didn't sing in English. I don't listen to Bad Bunny's music. But I do know one thing about Bad Bunny. He's one of the biggest artists in the world. Yeah, that's what the super bowl is about. The super bowl is about putting the biggest artists on that stage. On that stage. And guess what? There's artists that they may put on that stage that may not necessarily appeal to me in, in my demographic, but, you know, that's how you learn. That's how you discover things. Bad Bunnies has sold over 100 million records worldwide. He just finished. I don't even know if it's finished, but he did 30 dates in Puerto Rico at a venue that holds like 19, 000 people. And the fact That y' all are already this mad and it's not even February yet. I smell another Emmy for Roc Nation. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I smell.

[DJ Envy]

No, absolutely. I mean, I don't see a problem with it. Like you said, he's the biggest artist. This is the biggest stage. And I always say music is a vibe. I play Bad Bunny's records when I dj, and I don't know what he's saying.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

But the fact is people dance to it. I play reggae music sometimes times. And sometimes the pot, the patois be so crazy. I don't know what they be saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I don't even understand most of you when y' all rap. You're right. What?

[DJ Envy]

No, no, that's the truth.

[Angela Yee]

That is so messed up. He said, I don't even understand some of you.

[DJ Envy]

It took me a minute to understand Young Thug.

[Angela Yee]

Well, I still don't understand Young Duck.

[DJ Envy]

See, but you still rock.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You rock to it, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I do.

[Angela Yee]

I do. Some of his head.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If Bad Bunny hadn't have said he doesn't want to do no shows in America because, you know, he's afraid that I, ice, is going to come to his shows. If he hadn't said that, this wouldn't even be a compensation.

[DJ Envy]

You think so?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is the only reason this is happening? No, it's because he took a political stand. Right. And he said that he didn't want to do no shows in America because he didn't want ICE agents to raise his concerts or whatever it was that. That sentence alone got people in their feelings.

[DJ Envy]

But not only that, we also have to remember Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Puerto Rico lives right down the street of the US So he is a. He's a citizen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Red is Puerto Rican. We got. We got a couple of Puerto Ricans that work on Breakfast Club. Red is Puerto Rican. Eli is Puerto Rican. But it's weird.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what he is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's weird.

[Angela Yee]

Stop playing with him. He is not weird.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm saying it's weird because he said he's Drake.

[DJ Envy]

He's not Puerto Rican.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's my point. He acts so much like a great person, but he's actually Puerto Rican. Yeah.

[Chris Gotti]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's just like. Yo, come on.

[Angela Yee]

All right, so look, how do you feel? He's a real Puerto Rican. How you feel?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's gonna be the best super bowl show ever.

[Listeners / Callers]

I know. That's fine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he'll kill it.

[DJ Envy]

He kills it. I think he going to kill it.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. My Husband excited, too?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. I just want to give context. Your husband is Mexican too?

[Angela Yee]

Yes, but he really, really likes Bad Bunny's music.

[DJ Envy]

I think Bad Bunny gonna kill it, right? Hello? Who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

This recording, Carol.

[DJ Envy]

Why you recording us?

[Angela Yee]

Don't be doing that.

[Listeners / Callers]

F. This call is no longer being.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning, girls.

[Listeners / Callers]

Good morning. Good morning. Don't envy. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning.

[Listeners / Callers]

Shalom. The God.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, Carol.

[Chris Gotti]

Talk to us.

[DJ Envy]

What's your thoughts?

[Listeners / Callers]

Well, to me, I feel like I'm Puerto Rican and black, and I don't want to hear Spanish.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Listeners / Callers]

I really don't. So to me, I know Jeff can agree with me. We've been after Chris Brown for years, girl. That's what we want to see.

[Angela Yee]

I know. That's right.

[Listeners / Callers]

I want to see Chris Brown. I want to see this. I want to see. I want to hear English. I want to be able to dance while this half time is on. Not be like, oh, you can dance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The bad one because he's Puerto Rican. No, it's because he's one of the biggest artists in the world.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the reason why. No, I think I do. I would love to see Chris Brown in a Super bowl halftime show one year, but this year should have been, to me, either Taylor Swift or Bad Bun.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Taylor Swift or Bad. But they have the biggest years. They got albums coming out.

[Chris Gotti]

You.

[DJ Envy]

You do the biggest artists, and they are the two biggest artist this year.

[Listeners / Callers]

I. I don't agree. But then again, what can we do, right? All we got to do is listen to it or just turn it off. On. On. Have fun.

[DJ Envy]

You're gonna be watching it. I think the world's gonna be watching.

[Listeners / Callers]

All right. Have a good day, baby.

[DJ Envy]

I think the world's gonna be watching it because he puts on a hell of a show. Anytime he's performed at any of these award shows, he killed it. And I don't see nothing less mellow.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah. What's the vibes, Amy?

[DJ Envy]

What's the vibes, bro?

[Listeners / Callers]

Your life is amazing. It is what it should be. Be.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to us. What's your thoughts?

[Listeners / Callers]

I respect it. I. I would be down for Bad Bunny, you know, I mean, doing the halftime performance, you know, I mean, I'm mixed with black and excellent, but I just don't feel like the super bowl halftime performance would be his, like, demographic because he's a global superstar, but he's not, like a generational superstar. Like, he don't transcend generations type, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He don't translate to the what Generations.

[Listeners / Callers]

Like, you know, I mean, like, he don't get the. Like he. Like he's more so millennial to Gen Z. Not necessarily. Like, like y' all generation, like, y' all respect it because y' all in the industry, but I don't feel like, you know, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Listeners / Callers]

That demographic will respect it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what the hell you talking about, cuz. Bad Bunny is literally one of the biggest artists in the world.

[DJ Envy]

I guess he's saying generational, like a lot of people have.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah. Right now in the world. Globally, but not generationally.

[DJ Envy]

Dr. Dre, you feel me?

[Listeners / Callers]

Like when 50 Cent and on the super bowl stage, like, generations felt that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So people could say that.

[Listeners / Callers]

You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People could say that about Kendrick Lashes.

[Listeners / Callers]

Exactly. Generations felt that. Like, I don't think Bad Bunny could do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm saying Kendrick is. Kendrick's not a generational artist yet. Like a Dr. Dre. You mean people that have been around for a long time. Cuz, I. Cuz I could say that.

[Listeners / Callers]

Dr. Drake, that respect, especially after what he did to Drake.

[Angela Yee]

I get what Melo was saying.

[DJ Envy]

You talking to circles.

[Angela Yee]

Get what he's saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kendrick is a right now type of person who will absolutely be a generational legacy artist. 1. But yeah, I think. I think Bad Bonnie will.

[Listeners / Callers]

I feel like he's in it right now. I feel like, honestly, like he got his respect. I feel like people give him his flowers. Like, yo, you can't turn on the radio without hearing krick, bro. And like he really running everything right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right now at this moment.

[Listeners / Callers]

But it's like. But I feel like his oldest stuff is also getting his flowers for it too.

[DJ Envy]

Melo, you also got to think about like, this, right? On all stations. Bad Bunny's record has played before. Bad Bunny had had a top record at. At hip hop stations. He's had a top record at Spanish stations. Stations. He had a tap record at pop stations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[DJ Envy]

He's the. The biggest artist right now. You can't deny that.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah, no, I'm not saying. I'm saying, like, right now. I'm just saying, like, I don't feel like he's reached that level of, like, he can transcend generations. Like, I'm not gonna host you. I can't turn on wbls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And he gonna be there because he's not that old. BLS is an urban, adult contemporary. Kendrick ain't playing on wbls.

[DJ Envy]

Not at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, you're not making no sense.

[Angela Yee]

Mellow, don't know none of his secrets.

[DJ Envy]

That's just what it is.

[Angela Yee]

None of his songs. I know two. You know what I'm saying? I'm. I'm for. I'm for whoever. It don't even matter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just know, too, what just said is very important because there's one thing about black people, boy, black people swear just because we don't know it that it ain't happening.

[DJ Envy]

Don't nobody know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? Like, this man just didn't sell out 30 shows in Puerto Rico in a venue that hold 19,000 people. Like, this man hasn't sold 100 million records worldwide. And black people. Can I tell y' all something else? When you talk about the second largest population in America, you know who that is after white people, right?

[Chris Gotti]

Latinos.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Well, well, 800.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

585. 105 on with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm just saying that for everybody who's saying things like, you know, in America, he don't have a large demo. Latinos make up 20% of the US population, 20% of the league. It's like 70 million people in America are Latinos. All right, Bad Bunny is going to have a huge, huge audience watching him in February.

[DJ Envy]

Well, 800-585-1051. You can hit us on the Twitch, too. People on the Twitch saying somebody says Latinos outnumber us. People are missing that the NFL is trying to reach international. It's going so fast. International fan base. Then they say, yes, he's gonna kill it. Somebody just said ice on the chat. But hit us up right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hilarious.

[DJ Envy]

Page Breakfast Club 8 on Twitch. And when taking your calls, 800.

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[DJ Envy]

5851051 now if you're just joining us, we're talking about bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl. People are mad. People are saying that they're not going to understand what he's saying. They're saying that it's not popular music. They're saying that only 20, less than 20 of of the league is Latino. And most of the people are not going to understand what is the league.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have to do with anything, I guess represent Latin players, man, that, that Bad Bunny is representing America because 20% of America is Latino. S over 68 million people, about 6, probably right around 68, 69 million people in America are Latino. You know what else I read yesterday? There was a article that came out that talk about how concert tours are changing because of Latino spending. And it literally says from Bad Bunny to Kendrick Lamar. Artists are proving that the future of live music is with Latinos. Because rising costs and border hurdles in the US are pushing towards south where massive crowds, booming markets and passionate fans are driving record breaking shows. Latinos are not only fueling global tours, but also contribute 4.1 trillion to the US economy. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I think he's gonna kill it. And he puts on a hell of a show. That's one thing that you can say about Bad Bunny. If you see them perform at any of the award shows. He put on a hell of a show. And also the super bowl is also. It's about inclusion, about the people that they bring. Yeah, he's had songs with Cardi B. He's had songs with Drake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

He had songs with other Latino artists. So it could be bigger than just.

[Angela Yee]

You know what I'm saying? That's why, that's what I keep saying. And Jocelyn Hernandez, she is a Puerto Rican princess and he could be bringing out her too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, all right, let's please go to the phone. Hello?

[Chris Gotti]

Who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

That's good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chris, This J. Chris.

[Angela Yee]

No, it's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hola.

[DJ Envy]

Hola.

[Listeners / Callers]

No, no, it's not just Chris. Crazy man.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Listeners / Callers]

For one, Lil Wayne should have performed at the New Orleans super bowl, but at this one, ain't nobody gonna understand this, man. The only Spanish I know is. Come on.

[Chris Gotti]

So you just, you just, you don't.

[DJ Envy]

Because you, you don't. You ain't gonna want to understand it.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yeah, no, I don't understand it. I don't, I don't understand Spanish.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you know how many people last year didn't understand Kendrick? And see, we have such, we're such prisoners of the moment. We forgot how much people complained last year after Kendrick performed.

[Angela Yee]

No, it was Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was too black. It was too black.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, it was a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a lot.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

Foreign from Columbia.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, bro? Talk to us, man. Bad Bunny performed in Super Bowl. What's your thoughts?

[Listeners / Callers]

I'm actually happy he performed in the Super Bowl. Bad Bunny, actually a pretty big artist that just showed me that Jay Z actually locked in with what's going on out here because Bad Bunny just had a cancer in America because of the whole ice, everything that's going on. So imagine the number of people that's tuning in and watching this year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The fact that you said they were.

[Listeners / Callers]

Too scared to go to the concert.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The fact that you said Big Bunny is actually actually. I mean, Bad Bunny is actually a pretty big artist. No, he's one of the biggest artists in the world, and it's not even close.

[Listeners / Callers]

I know, but a lot of people don't know about Bad Bunny. Like, America wise, if I mention Bad Buddy to my family, they. They won't really know who it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't believe.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, yeah, some people might not know, but, you know, bad boy streams 77 million streams a month. So he streams more than a lot of your artists out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So you stream them so you know exactly what it is. It's gonna be a dope show, and I think he gonna put on. I think he gonna create a dope.

[Angela Yee]

Show and then that just all go. That also goes to show you that everybody don't know everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, exactly.

[Angela Yee]

And that's okay. They'll know him after the super bowl, but they don't know him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, I bet y'. All. Y' all ain't never play a Garf Brooks song in your house. I love Garth Brooks. You're a liar.

[DJ Envy]

What's a Garth Brooks song?

[Angela Yee]

I don't know exactly, but I do like him.

[DJ Envy]

So to put it in perspective, Drake streams about 82 million monthly, Kendrick does about 72 million, and Bad Bunny does 77 million. So he's up there with everybody, so. Hello? Who's this?

[Listeners / Callers]

Hi, this is Reese from Jersey.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, morning, Reese. Talk to us. What you think about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl?

[Listeners / Callers]

So I think people are making an issue out of nothing, if I'm being honest. Like, the super bowl is known to put the biggest names on the stage, those who make the biggest splash within the last year or whatever the case may be. So if y' all want y' all people on there, then tell y' all people to start making splashes, because it doesn't Matter if it's a black person, a white person's gonna be mad they up there. Or if it's a white person, a Latin person's gonna be mad they up there. Or if there's a Latin person, a black person gonna be mad. So there's no win. Like the solution was make a splash. We put you on there. So everybody that is mad just wants something to say. It's always been the case because listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't listen to Bad Bunny, but I know that Bad Bunny is one of the biggest artists in the world. I know Bad Bunny is sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide. I know that Bad Bunny had a residency in Puerto Rico that sold out 30 shows at 19, 000 a pop. I know bad, but I know the finale of that show streamed on Amazon Music and was the most watched single artist performance on Amazon Music to date on the platform. And Amazon Music then put, they put the pop out on there with Kendra and I'm pretty sure J. Cole Dreamville festivals on Amazon. I might be wrong about that, but I know that the pop out was on there. So it's just like y' all acting like Bad Bunny's not one of the biggest artists in the world is crazy to me. And he represents a demographic of people in America that are the second largest population of people in the country.

[Angela Yee]

See, I don't think people are acting like he's not the one of the biggest artists in the world. I just think people don't know. That's the thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People don't know.

[Angela Yee]

And then people run with what they don't know and start an argument with it. You don't know them, so you can't even say, you know what I'm saying? Like you can't say whether he's big or not just because you don't know him.

[DJ Envy]

You're right. But if you go to do the genres, right, so pop wise, Taylor Swift is the biggest artist, right? Hands down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, tell us who's the biggest artist in the world.

[Listeners / Callers]

Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Hip hop. Who's the biggest artist this year, Hip hop wise?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kendrick.

[DJ Envy]

Kendrick. He performed last year, right. So as far as what, what Bad Bunny does, he is the biggest, I say, outside of Taylor and Adele, especially in that genre. So yeah, I don't have a problem with him. He puts on an amazing show. I really don't have, have a problem. I, I, I want to see it cuz I want to see what he does. Now. Some of the stuff that he's done at the Grammys and things like That I wonder if they're going to allow. Didn't he do a performance one time when he kissed a woman dancer? Then he kissed a male dancer?

[Angela Yee]

I thought that was lil Nas X. I didn't know.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Maybe. Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. But anyway, it's going to be fine. All I'm seeing is another massive, successful super bowl halftime show. Blame rock Nick. Okay. This is gonna be another Emmy winning performance for Roc Nation because. Because of this.

[Listeners / Callers]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And by the way, this is what art should be like. You should be able to put artists on stage that make America be like, oh, oh my God, what are we watching? Yeah, yeah. Be controversial. Be shocking. Yeah, I don't have a problem with it.

[Angela Yee]

And it's diverse. It's diversity too. Like it's. I. I love it. I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And. And you know, the mirror, the mere presence of him is shocking. Just think about that. It's not because of. Yeah, it's not because of anything that they're actually doing. It's like Kendrick Lamar. Oh, bad money. Oh, yes. Keep pushing the boundaries. I love it. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right. And then I think they had a number of the amount of people that actually watched the super bowl and the numbers were insane. And they kept going up from the.

[Angela Yee]

Time where Roc Nation was picking up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah. And I did read yesterday that they. That they were trying to negotiate with Taylor Swift but she wanted too much.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was asking for like the mu. The. The music rights or something. I forgot what it was.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, anyway, we got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[DJ Envy]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

So yesterday on a mafia thon three, Drew Ski, Kevin Hart and Kai did a sleepover. They announced notice that they had a lot of fun. They announced during the sleepover though that they will be doing a movie which Drew Ski talked about when he was up here as well too. It is official. They will be doing a movie. We have some audio from the movie. Yeah, well, yeah, so it'll be coming soon. It's called live stream from hell. Let's take a listen to some of the trailer for the movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This Is a big ass crib.

[DJ Envy]

Oh man, that is a handmade V.

[Angela Yee]

It's a V. You broke ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go.

[DJ Envy]

What looking match.

[Chris Gotti]

We going to get rid of the body.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What the.

[Angela Yee]

Listen, it's a period sinker.

[Listeners / Callers]

I enjoy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm going to kill you, Kevin. You going ruin my career, bro.

[DJ Envy]

Listen man, I'm the only here with something lose.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So it gives like horror comedy. Cuz there's like a dead body in the trailer and then they all trying to like get out the house and who done it? Yeah, who done it? And it's a live stream from hell. It's during a live stream that's like, you know, setting. So that'll be coming soon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what platform is gonna get that project, but whatever platform gets that project is gonna break screaming records.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh yeah?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I think so. Whatever. Whatever platform decides to say, hey, we want that. They gonna break screaming records.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just happy they got it done. Yeah, done fast.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They are hilarious. Because I tried to watch a full stream last night but it started so late on our side in. In New York because they're in la.

[DJ Envy]

I see.

[Chris Gotti]

I fell asleep.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ. They are funny as hell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We got one of the clips. We have the Ruby Rose where they call Ruby. I heard you playing it earlier.

[DJ Envy]

Let's take a listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They call Ruby Rose on the stream.

[DJ Envy]

Yes or no? Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ruby, be honest.

[Listeners / Callers]

Do you eat?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you eat or no?

[Angela Yee]

Kai, do I look like I do that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, she did not eat your.

[Listeners / Callers]

I told you she didn't eat. I told you though.

[DJ Envy]

I told you.

[Chris Gotti]

I. Okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I asked for the question you want to ask.

[Angela Yee]

I know this is not on live stream.

[Chris Gotti]

Listen, listen, we not seriously. First of all, we are. But second of all, we only have two questions.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. So you, you, you could tell the kids in the chat and then you see where Kevin Hart starts to act like an adult.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And it goes back to acting like a kid.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, they slamming each other. It's. It's a good. The three of them together is great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to make sure Drew got a potato. If y' all out there tasting Drewy grosies. I'm just saying. You know what I'm saying? Just make sure he got a bidet is all I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, in other news, cuz we got some things we got to get to here. So moving on, coming back on over to New York. There's audio that leaked while we were actually us going into. Coming on air this morning of Cardi B. This is a phone Conversation that it looks like Cardi is having with Ice Spices team. Let's a take a listen to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Listeners / Callers]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What she said.

[Listeners / Callers]

Why you want to act dumb?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trust me, I really don't know.

[Angela Yee]

You don't know?

[Listeners / Callers]

I'mma show y' all I'm not lotto. I'mma beat her the up. I'mma knock her the out. Oh, yeah. I'mma be her ass. I'mma get riot beat up by my. Y' all gonna see what the is up. You think I'm as lotto? I don't know, bro. I don't got a. So yes. Does she say? Because I know exactly what the said. Go on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She about to do this Empire State.

[Listeners / Callers]

Joint n. You're about to get a she in New York. Tell the link up where y' all is at. Where? Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Are you going to tell me what she said?

[Listeners / Callers]

You know what the she said? I'm going to tell you what she said. Y' all want to act stupid? You think I'm loud out? You think I'm naked? I you the out. Oh, yeah. I'mma be my ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So this I don't know if we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Need bad money at the Super Bowl. Oh, no, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So this leaked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It speaking a lotto just to get this in before we have to wrap lotto. Well, first of all, I want to say this leaked and people trying to figure out what the timeline was. They mentioned Ice Spice was doing something at the Empire State Building. That was back in July 2024 when she was promoting her Y2K album. So I believe it's from that time period. I did reach out to try to get more clarity on that, but I haven't heard back from anyone yet. But, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So now, what was the context of that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The context of that was there was a song that was on Ice Spice's Y2K album called BB Belt. And during that song, she drops a line where Cardi and people believe that she dissed Cardi. Let's take a listen to that line.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know I'm old, man. I was born in 1978. But how does stuff like that lead the studio?

[Angela Yee]

I don't want black people here. That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I feel like she should have did another tape.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm just saying now Cardi has not tripping in the. I mean, no. So this gonna be shady either way I say it. It's Ice Spice. So, like, I don't know what you.

[Listeners / Callers]

Want her to do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was a shot.

[DJ Envy]

Why you say it like that.

[Angela Yee]

That's how she.

[DJ Envy]

Black women supposed to stick with each other.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like Ice, but that's how she. She said she's black in the.

[Listeners / Callers]

In the.

[Chris Gotti]

The song.

[Angela Yee]

She said, you know, I'm black. Y' all could talk about my hair.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But Cardi hasn't said anything yet as to if that is what this audio was. Ice Spice hasn't either. I was just doing my own, you know, putting the timeline together, and it makes sense for that to be the time period. And Cardi B. Did mention, you know, conversations about people trying to take her place while she's been doing this rollout.

[DJ Envy]

People thought that that's old, right? That's like a year and a half old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you got to worry about nobody taking your place, rapping like that. Car, you can leave. Go to the bathroom, go get something to eat. Okay. Go feed all the kids. All right. Okay. You ain't even got to worry about nobody taking your place. That's how she coming.

[Angela Yee]

As we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cardi did mention a lot of soul, but that was. Yeah, what was that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The fart. She said she's, you know, whatever. As. As we rap. Cardi B did mention lotto in that and yesterday. Lotto for the first time ever, from what it seems, memes confirmed that her and 21 Savage are dating. I'm moving on in the news. Let's take a listen to that. Dinner with my husband.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, wait, wait.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So are you tired of people asking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About, you know who. 21.

[Listeners / Callers]

So you're not tired of hearing about 21?

[Angela Yee]

Oh, she said, I'm about to go have dinner with my husband.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And she said, my man, my Mimi. And she said, 21. She said, my man, my mama. So people were like, up that she's finally saying, that's her. Me and her. Me and her man. Cuz, remember she said, shout out to my man. Thank you to my man.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, we knew that. But she said, my husband. Okay, that's even bigger than the Miami. My man, my man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but, I mean, we don't know if there's like a Maybe she just.

[Angela Yee]

Said that or whatever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, because people do still try and point back to. And I don't know the status of this, but 21 being married previously. So tell who. There's a whole. It's a whole thing. We don't got the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. Twitter logic impresses me so much. Hold on. So you mean to tell me that. Because she said, my man, my man, my man. They saying because of the cadence, like, 21, 21. 21.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, because in that, in that, in that audio, she says, I'm about to go out to eat with my husband. Celia from TMZ, shout out to her says, 21 Savage. She says, My man, my man, my man. She doesn't say no. Play it one more time.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Point Jess. That will start. People starting to look into this a little deeper now. Again, it was a seemingly confirmed. Because she could have not heard. Heard Celia too and just been saying my man.

[Angela Yee]

Cuz she heard her and she said my husband. And then said, my man, my man, my man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I don't know anything about that whole like marriage conversation. Not conversation.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right now I'mma play Ice Spice again. Now you're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to Chris Gotti for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Chris Gotti, man. They already online chatting about his. His comments about Ashanti, which is interesting though, of course, because, you know, everybody grieves differently and everybody pays their respects differently. So you. I don't. I don't. I don't know. It's interesting. Can you tell somebody how to pay respect? I don't know.

[Angela Yee]

No, you can't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, they talk. They chatting about that online. Maybe that'll be a topic later this week.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but you can see the full interview on our YouTube page now. Salute to everybody in Dayton, Ohio. I'm gonna be at scene 75 this week. All Black Affair. You know, we're doing it for all the HBCUs and all the homecomings. So I can't wait to see you this weekend in Ohio. Where you at this week?

[Angela Yee]

Yo, I remember I got smart with my father, right? I was supposed to go to homecoming. I got small. It was like. I never forget. He's like, you keep. You keep up all that sassy hats talking. You ain't going to homecoming. Only thing you're gonna be doing is coming home. I remember that. He really tried me that day.

[DJ Envy]

Did you go home? Did you go?

[Angela Yee]

No, because I. I was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you ain't stopped talking.

[Angela Yee]

No, I didn't. He made my ass stay home too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was crazy.

[Angela Yee]

I was so mad.

[DJ Envy]

But you didn't go to college. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Homecoming. Was you going? What are you talking about? School.

[Angela Yee]

And I want homecoming queen. But I wasn't even there to get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, high school. And I don't like how y' all act like Baltimore Community College. Not a college. And I know.

[Angela Yee]

No, no, no, don't nobody even know I went there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you went there?

[Angela Yee]

Gosh, no, not for real.

[DJ Envy]

That's dope.

[Angela Yee]

Albany and Syracuse, New York. I will be upstate October 11th and 12th. That's next weekend. Friday and Saturday between the two clubs. Funny Bone Comedy Club in Syracuse and Funny Bone Comedy Club in Albany.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get your tickets.

[Angela Yee]

Just hilarious. Official dot com. We got four shows, two on Friday, two on Saturday. And yes, I will be doing meet and greet. Love your New York.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed. And I just want to remind y' all that my fifth annual Mental Wealth Expo is happening Saturday, October 11, at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Event center in Newark, New Jersey, from 11:00am to 4:00pm Dr. Alfie Breland Noble is going to be there. Debbie Brown's gonna be there. Jason Wilson's gonna be there. Dr. Rita Walker's gonna be there. Dr. J. Barnett's gonna be there. We got Deontay Wilder, the champ. He'll. He'll be there. Carl Lind will be there. Elliot Kanye will be there. Angela Rye will be there. It's just a whole. That Queen of Fool is going to be there. Just. Oh, that's my girl. Yeah, Just some of the best mental health professionals and, you know, people who want to share their experiences, you know, on their healing journeys will be there. So it's a free event. Okay. 11am to 4pm Saturday, October 11, in Newark, New Jersey, at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and Event center. So go to mentalwealthexpo.com to register to be be there. Oh, you don't have to register. Just show up. It's free. Free, free, free, free, free.

[DJ Envy]

You got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Ask for what you want, people. Okay? That's the positive note. Find the courage to ask for what you want. Others have the right to tell you yes or no, but you always have the right to ask. Likewise, everybody has the right to ask you for what they want. And you have the right to say yes or no, but just always find the courage to ask for what you want. Have a great day. Day Breakfast Club.

[Listeners / Callers]

You all finish or y' all done?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Angela Yee]

Held up at gunpoint.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

I was robbed.

[Angela Yee]

All these horrendous things happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood that.

[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Angela Yee]

So I'm not going back back Listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Chris Gotti]

America, y' all better wake the hell out up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

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[Angela Yee]

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[Podcast Narrator (Health Discovered / True Crime)]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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