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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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.
Louis V
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
DJ Envy
Just hilarious.
Louis V
Good morning.
DJ Envy
Charlamagne is running a little late and guess what day it is. Guess what day it is.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hump day.
DJ Envy
It's Wednesday. It's hump day is middle of the week. What up Jess?
Louis V
What's up? Yo, your throat not set up like Charlemagne. I know. You just.
DJ Envy
That's.
Jess Hilarious
I don't have that.
Louis V
Your throat not that deep. Yo, I hear that.
DJ Envy
Can you say pause after that?
Louis V
Oh, my. Pause now. Resume. Resume. Go ahead.
DJ Envy
How you feeling? You out in Atlanta? You have a couple of shows in Atlanta?
Louis V
Absolutely. Shout out to 961the beat. You already know. Yep. I got shows out in Atlanta. Atlanta Comedy Theater tonight in Norcross. And then also we got two shows tomorrow. I will be doing meet and greet after the second show tonight and after the second show tomorrow, guys. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited. Now, Atlanta is cold down here.
DJ Envy
Well, it's cold back here in New York.
Louis V
I know, but I don't know why.
DJ Envy
You expect it to be differently.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah.
Louis V
Like, even. Even when I was in Oakland, yo, It was like, 30 degrees.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Louis V
@ night, I'm like, yo, why is it that cold all around the world right now?
DJ Envy
Yeah, no, it should be starting to warm up. We're starting to see spring temperatures a little bit, which I'm excited about.
Charlamagne Tha God
A little bit.
DJ Envy
I'm loving it. Now, I know. I've been watching you, and I know you're finishing your book. I finished my second book.
Louis V
Congratulations.
DJ Envy
Real Life, Real Family.
Louis V
Oh, let me see. Yo, the COVID is dope. Let me see.
DJ Envy
I just finished Real Life, Real. And it's all about raising our kids.
Louis V
Look at the cases.
DJ Envy
Yeah, it's all about raising our kids. The second book took a little longer. We actually did it with a therapist.
Louis V
Cause we talked about raising kids. Yeah.
DJ Envy
And we talked about the different things with, you know, giving the kids everything that they need. And every child is different. All their wants are different. And we just talk about the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything we've been through. And hopefully this could raise somebody with kids or somebody thinking about having kids. So the book comes out in April. April 15th. And it's your chance to pre order it. We just finished the audio book, and it's all about you, how you should be as a unit. Like, I'm sure, with your family. We talk about, you know, the most important thing is we are a unit. We tell everybody we are a unit. We move together. We have each other's backs. When mom ain't there, you. You map, you. You represent the family. When Dad's not there, we represent the family. So we talk about that and how our. Our family dynamics.
Jess Hilarious
So do y'all.
Louis V
Do y'all break down, like, how y'all each. Each kid is different in how you rate raise each kid. Cause you got six of them.
DJ Envy
Yeah, yeah. Now we talk about.
Louis V
So that book should look like an encyclopedia.
DJ Envy
Yeah, because. No, but not only that, people know my dad is a retired police officer and ex military. So being raised under him, it was his way or the highway. My wife was more patient where her parents actually spoke to them about why they said no. My parents were just like, no, get the F out my mom.
Louis V
That's it. Don't ask me why. That was my household too.
DJ Envy
Yeah. So that dynamic of mixing that with gear and the patients and how it works out, it actually worked out a lot better because the kids are more likely to talk to mom about everything. Whether it's about sex, whether they're having problems, whether it is. And it's a great dynamic.
Louis V
It's a healthy balance between y'all. That's what's up.
DJ Envy
That's right. So the book comes out on the 15th. So pre order it now. Pre order the audiobook. And we actually interviewed our kids as well. We had somebody interview them so they can. So it's real. Like, well, what do you think about mom? What do you think about dad? My three year old goes, dad farts a lot.
Louis V
I'm like, great, put that in the book. Put that in the book.
DJ Envy
Put that in the book. Yes. Well, today on the show, David Banner will be joining us. David Banner. You know the rapper David Banner. He's featuring the new family business, New Orleans, available on bet. Plus we're going to be kicking it with David being an activist, actor, musician and all that. So let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Morgan will be joining us. Charlamagne will be here in a second. And it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now. Ex New York Giant quarterback is signing with the Indianapolis Colts. He's signing a one year deal, $14 million contract, which is insane. Which is insane. Now, Jesse ain't do nothing for the Giants. They want to give Saquon that money. But somebody found money for 14 minutes. It's a lot of money, but. Good morning, Morgan.
Louis V
Are you so disappointed?
Morgan
Just hilarious.
Louis V
What's up, girl?
Morgan
How y'all feeling this morning? Feeling good.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Morgan
And you sound mad.
Louis V
Yeah, girl. When it comes to them Giants, yo, he be. He be.
DJ Envy
There's no way he should be still getting that much money. It doesn't even make sense.
Morgan
But anyway, there's no way you should still be A fan of the NFC East. I'm just saying. Yourself, the stress. I'm just saying. All right, so let's get into it. The House is passing a six month funding bill to prevent a government shutdown. The Bill narrowly passed 217 to 13 on Tuesday, but with all, all but one Republican supporting the six month stop measure, a stopgap measure. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who says the bill freezes funding and is responsible, says that, you know, people need to do the responsible thing. Let's hear more from House Speaker Mike Johnson. As he says, the bill also falls on the Senate on the desk of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Charlamagne Tha God
The Republicans stood together and we had one Democrat vote with us to do the right thing and that is to fund the government. He must determine whether he wants to fund the government, do the responsible thing or whether he wants to shut the government down.
Morgan
And on the other side of the IO, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the funding bill will end up hurting Americans. Let's hear more from him.
Lauren LaRosa
It is unacceptable and that is why there was a strong showing of opposition amongst House Democrats.
DJ Envy
I don't understand why they can't find the financing for these operations. This happens every other year or every year and it seems like we never find the funding. And it's something that can't happen. The government can't shut down. So what is the real problem?
Morgan
It's probably a matter of an agreement on where those funds go and, you know, that type of thing. So a proposal now heads to the Senate where its fate remains unstable. Certain. While Republicans do control a slight majority in the Senate, Kentucky's Rand Paul has made it clear that he is firmly against that bill. So hopefully a shutdown can be averted. But the deadline is Friday night, so we will keep you posted. Meanwhile, President Trump is telling business leaders that his tariffs have a tremendously positive impact on the economy. He made the comments on Tuesday at a quarterly business meeting roundtable which includes the heads of Apple, Walmart, GM and JPMorgan Chase. In his remarks, Trump clarify claim that his recent tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China will have and they are having a positive impact. Let's listen to those comments from President Trump.
Charlamagne Tha God
The biggest win is not the tariff. That's a big win. That's a lot of money. But the biggest win is if they move into our country and produce jobs. That's a bigger win than the tariffs themselves. But the tariffs are going to be throwing off a lot of money to this country.
Morgan
Yeah, okay. So the remarks come as stock Values continue to fall. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost as much as 17, excuse me, 700 points on Tuesday before ending the trading day down 478 points. Prior to that, you guys, the, the market pretty much what, lost like nearly a thousand points. So, yeah. And speaking of which, the premier of Ontario, Canada, remember we spoke about him yesterday imposing tariffs on electricity while he has decided to put a hold on his decision to impose tariffs on electricity exports to the US so yesterday he announced a 25% surcharge on electricity that it supplies to parts of Michigan, Minnesota and New York. He said the suspension of the surcharge comes after U.S. commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick agreed to renewing trade talks. So he said he's, you know, people, the Trump administration is coming to the negotiating table. And you know, he's been calling out President Trump saying hey and apologizing also to the American people, you know, saying he doesn't want to do this but you know, it is Trump's fault in regards to these tariffs. So Ford added, we have both agreed to let cooler heads prevail. Of course. President Trump has announced a doubling of tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum in response to the electricity surcharge. So we will again see what happens as a result of that and really quickly if we got time. The Philadelphia Eagles will visit the President Trump at the White House to celebrate the super bowl win. This after White House and uninvited the team in 2018 after their victory because of their protests of the national anthem. So owner Jeffrey Laurie also reportedly criticized Trump at the time. This year, Trump attended the super bowl ahead of the event and praised running back Taquan Barkley and quarterback Jaylen Hurts. So the the Eagles are headed to the White House and we will see what that visit looks like. So that's your front page news at 7 6am oh Lord, it's early today. I had the energy yesterday, not so much today. That's your front page news at 6am At 7am we will talk about, you know, misgendering in the on Capitol Hill and what that looks like.
Louis V
Oh my God, no.
DJ Envy
Like wait, you stupid. Everybody else get it off your chest. 800-5851-051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, wake your ass.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Lauren LaRosa
Whether you're mad or blessed, we want.
Charlamagne Tha God
To hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Hello. Who's this.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yo, this Nando from Minnesota.
DJ Envy
Nando, what's up? Get it off your chest.
Charlamagne Tha God
What's up, Envy? Hey, Jess. I don't know it's Charlamagne in yet, but I got a bone to pick with him.
Jess Hilarious
I'm here.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm here, sir. Pick my bone, boss. So, yesterday, lady from South Carolina called in, and I know that's your area and everything, but you agreed with her that us in Minnesota and Michigan and New York deserve to get our energy shut off because the US Needs, like, a power play shown to us. And I just thought that was. I just thought that was super petty because I didn't agree with that. And. And we. We. We voted for Trump. We. We did not vote for Trump in Minnesota. We are a blue state. We've been a blue state since the beginning of time. And also, it's the middle of winter here in Minnesota. If our. If we don't have energy, there's some people who rely on energy for heat, rely on energy for medical equipment. And y'all know what happened to Texas with their power grid failed? How many people died? How many people had to go to the hospital? So I just think that was real petty of you. I didn't say that. And that's exactly why we in the position we in now. I never said that. The reason we're in the position that we're in now. Yes, you did, bro. I listen to y'all every day. Sir, sir, sir. She said we deserve to get her power shut off. He said her son live in Michigan. You don't care about him. Run the clip back. You did say. No, what I. What I said was that's what he said he wanted to do. She said, let him do it. Hello. And you agreed with her on my point? You agreed with her. You should have brought awareness to the situation and brought awareness to how dangerous the situation is. Y'all keep wanting to end the war in Ukraine, but we about to have a war in our own country. You don't know what you're talking about. I mean, and respectfully, because, number one, once again, I bought up the fact that he said he wanted to cut off the power. She said, let him do it. Now, did I. Did I push back? No. I'd let her talk now if you want to say that, but don't say I said y'all deserved it. I didn't say that. So why you push it back with what I'm saying? Because you lying on me, that's why. Because you said I said something I didn't Say I'm not. I still love y'all, though. Breakfast Club, the best. Y'all, y'all, y'all the best to ever do it.
DJ Envy
Hey, thank you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Have a good day. Thank you, Natalie.
DJ Envy
Thank you, Natalie.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, you're named after the chicken spot, too.
Louis V
You're a clown. He was getting it off his chest.
DJ Envy
Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Lauren LaRosa
This is your time to get it.
Jess Hilarious
Off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed, so you better have the same energy.
Lauren LaRosa
We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who this?
Charlamagne Tha God
How y'all doing?
DJ Envy
What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, good morning, y'all. Listen, y'all, every morning, and before Trump became president, you had a lot of brothers calling in about a stimulus check. But they ain't calling me in no more. I'm trying to figure out, you know, what's going on. We're calling about this stimulus.
Jess Hilarious
Come on, Charlotte.
Charlamagne Tha God
Man, you laugh nice. No, you. It's true. But you. I'm just laughing. It is true, though. Well, I got a question for you. It's only two kind of brothers that have tried to request the president to get a four year term for a $1,000 check. That's a brother that don't get a check with a commenter, but it's probably a brother getting government assistance. I forgot about my stimulus check. I don't know what I did with mine. You ain't cash it? I don't even remember, you know what I'm saying? I got. I got a regular job. Okay. A thousand dollars or four years. Okay, Bob, I'm not gonna remember what I did with it. I hear you, baller. Baller.
Louis V
That's right.
Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't balling Charlemagne. But that's what got us here. Brothers call like that got us. Where we at now? I got kids. I got a senior school. We didn't even get the Republicans out of House and Senate. So they still got gun legislators go be blocked. Where the brothers from the 60s at? That stood up or something from the 60s? Oh, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. You know, they fought for rights. They got a civil rights, equal rights. They got the schools integrated. We haven't did Nothing since the 70s as black men for each other, but fight each other. We don't fight politics. We fight each other. Now that. I'm gonna get back to that. That I agree with we will go. We'll go to war with. We'll go to war with each other, but be docile to everybody else. But I appreciate y'all, man. I appreciate y'all for keeping it real, keeping us motivated. Detroit, what up, though? Brian and Tom, what up, though? I love y'all.
DJ Envy
What up, though? Thank you, brother. Hello? Who's this?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, this is John.
DJ Envy
What's up, John? Get it off your chest, brother.
Charlamagne Tha God
Bro, this day, like, 10 times or whatever it is, messed me up. I woke up five minutes before I had to go out and teach my class. I was supposed to be at the house, like, 55 minutes ago.
DJ Envy
Oh, you say daylight saving time messed you up?
Louis V
Messed you up?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, man. I like Monday, my alarm went off, and I get to the school, and knowing that, I'm like, oh, okay, I guess I'll go work out. Wednesday comes.
Jess Hilarious
Alarms don't go off.
Charlamagne Tha God
Everyone at the gym. What's your fault? You don't use the alarm clock on your phone. I do. It's dead. It don't change automatically.
DJ Envy
It changed Sunday. Sunday was the time it should have been caught up with you, brother.
Charlamagne Tha God
Are you talking about your body clock? It went off on Monday, but it didn't go off until five minutes before the class was supposed to start, which was weird. Oh, yeah. Either it didn't change on its own, or your body clock is off. No. And the same thing happened to my mom on Monday. Okay. All right, well, I don't know. You should be telling this to the person that you was late for, not us.
DJ Envy
Oh, your phone provider. But I'm sorry, brother.
Louis V
Getting it off his chest.
DJ Envy
Have a good one. Get it off your chest. You want to get something off your chest before you go?
Charlamagne Tha God
I do. I want to talk to all the garbage truck drivers out there. Salute to all the garbage truck drivers out there. I respect y'all and your service. Thank you for keeping the streets clean. But y'all gotta stop blocking the roads in the morning. Okay, I understand you all have a job to do, but all of us are trying to get to our respective jobs, too. And all I keep thinking about is what if I was an ambulance, okay, and had somebody in the back that was sick and dying and needed to get to the hospital? Did you see the picture I sent you this morning?
DJ Envy
Let me see the picture.
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen, first of all, I'm going down one street. The garbage truck was blocking the street, but at least that garbage truck was giving people a room to pass. I just don't have the type of car. You know what I'm saying that can pass because I got a 2015 Cadillac Escalade, 700,000 miles on it. So I couldn't drive past the garbage truck. But when I went to the next street, that garbage truck was disrespectful. Am I not lying? How that garbage truck was parked?
DJ Envy
It was.
Charlamagne Tha God
Describe how that garbage truck was parked.
DJ Envy
It was. Well, you know, the streets are parallel. Well, you could usually pass the street or you could pass the garbage truck on the right or left. It was parking away, I guess, vertical, where you couldn't park it. You could drive any. Any angle.
Charlamagne Tha God
You can drive in the middle of the street.
DJ Envy
You have to go on the sidewalk to get around it.
Charlamagne Tha God
You see what I'm saying? And when people blowing the horn, the garbage truck drivers is like doing their fists like they blowing the horn in the truck, just taunting the people. Why y'all gotta be so disrespectful?
DJ Envy
Now that. That happens a lot in New York City. Come on, garbage you to do it. And a lot of times they can just pull up just a little bit where we can get by.
Charlamagne Tha God
Just think about the people. Let's think about others. That's all I'm saying. Y'all are already on y'all job, doing y'all job. The rest of us trying to get to our jobs. Just think about those long lines of people that y'all causing.
DJ Envy
But salute to all the garbage truck drivers, sanitation workers out there. Now, we got the latest with Lauren coming up. What we talking about? Lauren?
Just Hilarious
Yes. Wendy Williams, guardian's attorney. Sabrina's attorneys came out and said Wendy has been lying in the media.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
Louis V
That's what they said.
Just Hilarious
We gonna talk about it.
DJ Envy
All right, we'll get to that. Next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
Louis V
Lauren becoming a free fit.
DJ Envy
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.
Jess Hilarious
She gets the details.
Just Hilarious
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the lady on the.
Jess Hilarious
Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes we have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.
Just Hilarious
So we received a letter from Sabrina Morrissey, who is Wendy Williams, conservator. She wrote a guardian from her attorneys. So there's an attorney named Andrew Selley Jr. Who sent over a letter, and he outlined everything that they are alleging is inaccurate that has been in the Media, up until this point, they wrote this Wendy Lyon, he said that there has been a lot of inaccuracies and misleading untruths in the media. So the. The court actually who sealed everything and told Sabrina she could not make comments on stuff, is allowing for certain things to be cleared up. And here's what they are clearing up. So when it comes to the guardianship, they say, or they allege that Sabrina, as Wendy's guard, as Wendy's guardian, did not declare Wendy Williams to be legally incapacitated because no guardian has that power. That happens by a court. And that's not just for Wendy's case. That happens in every case like this. And specifically for Wendy's case, it was put in place by the Supreme Court of New York City. Now, they say when it comes to Wendy's medical condition, the incapacity in that determination, the guardian also does not determine that. That according to them, this happens by doctors and medical professionals. And they allege that in 2022 and 2023, Wendy was examined at two hospitals. Frontal lobe atrophy. And they say it got worse, according to these legal documents that they have in 2023, when she was diagnosed with a condition that causes progressive decline over time, which I'm. I'm assuming they're talking about the frontal dis. Dem dementia that we've been having conversations about now on Wendy's living conditions, they say that Wendy is, you know, currently living under the care that was deemed appropriate by a court based on her diagnosis and based on what medical professionals are saying. They point out that where Wendy resides right now is an assisted living facility with Spa treatments, workout room 24, 7, medical oversight, excellent food, a dining room outside terraces, and that she's able to leave the facility, and she has done so to shop for meals, for medical appointments.
Charlamagne Tha God
When.
Just Hilarious
Now, when it comes to Wendy being able to see her family, this law firm says or is alleging that Sabrina, the current conservator, has never denied Wendy access to her family. They say that Wendy has never been kept away from her family. That whenever she wants to see them or call them, she is able to. They're also able to come and visit her in New York City. And that Wendy has been able to go and see family twice.
Louis V
Yo, but what's crazy is, didn't you go there? Didn't you try to go there? And it was kind of like a whole situation, like you couldn't even get in. You had to lie, say who you was, and like, yeah, now you're asking the right question.
Just Hilarious
That is what happened. That is what happened when I went there. And then on Wendy's money, they say Wendy's assets have been under professional management and are under court supervision. And anytime money moves, so anytime there's a disbursement of any sort, this is reviewed and approved by the court. They also make a point to mention that Wendy is not working and has no source of earned income. I don't know why that was put there, but they make it a point to say that as well, too. I thought that was a little shady. And then on Sabrina as the guardian, they want to make it clear that Sabrina didn't ask for this job. It was given to her. And it was given to her based on her amazing resume. She is a highly reputable, respected and regarded conservator with an unblemished record, according to the letter. And she takes the directions from the court. So every move she makes is a direction from the court. And again, I just wanted to mention that up until this point and up until Vanity Fair, Sabrina was not. She was always giving statements saying she could not respond because of how the guardianship was set up. But a court said, you know what? We need you. We need to clear up some things. So, boom, this letter.
Charlamagne Tha God
There's three sides to a story in this case. It's Wendy's side, it's the guardian side, and the truth. And the truth will be revealed at some point. But I do have questions for Sabrina. One, you know you're suing Lifetime, saying that Wendy wasn't in the right mind state to do that deal or do the show. But you were her guardian then, so why did you allow her to do it? You know, also, you say Wendy can come and go as she pleases, but you have her on a floor where she needs a key to leave the floor, even to enjoy some of those amenities.
DJ Envy
You just were talking about the spa in the restaurant.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, but she needs a key to even just leave the floor. And third, what Jess said, you know, you said her family can visit whenever they want. Well, when we sent her goddaughter up there.
DJ Envy
That's right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right. She wasn't able to see her.
DJ Envy
Not at all.
Louis V
Get in.
DJ Envy
But not only that, nobody's saying they Wendy to run out of there right now. All we're saying is let her go to the doctor, let her prove to herself the correct way. But y'all don't even give her the opportunity. She had to damn near beg the police.
Louis V
No, please run. No, I want her to run up there. Run up out of There right now. Like, no, please, this is crazy.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah.
DJ Envy
She had to beg to leave just to get a doctor to see if she was right. And she passed with eight flying clothes. Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
And that's the. That's the biggest untruth to me and that's what I would want to ask Sabrina is the biggest untruth is they said Wendy was incapacitated.
Just Hilarious
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
But she's clearly not.
Just Hilarious
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
So why are you as her guardian letting that story be out there? We're all. We're talking to her.
Just Hilarious
And they do mention that the guardian and well, the court has asked for another evaluation of Wendy. And I will say that I also reached out to the attorneys on the A. E side, Roberta Kaplan's team, and I asked them what's happening right now with that. And they say the same thing. They're just waiting on that evaluation to happen again because right now that even that lawsuit is on hold until everybody's waiting on this. This new evaluation. And I'm trying to figure out what Wendy did the other day at the hospital can be in place of that or not. But I haven't got an answer to that. But I did talk to one more thing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Laurie, go ahead. That. Tell them that letter was sent when.
Just Hilarious
The letter was sent March 6th.
Charlamagne Tha God
So before the events of yesterday.
Just Hilarious
Yeah, before the events of yesterday. We received this letter on March 6th. But yeah. So Wendy's side is saying that the guardian is utilizing a judge as a scapegoat to conceal the reality of the guardian. To consider the reality that the guardian has the ability to suggest easing the restrictions to Envy's point on Mrs. Williams or to free Wendy from the most stringent guardianship that a competent individual has been subjected to. As a guardian ignores the obvious. Wendy Williams is not incapacitated. So to the effect. Yeah. It's just asking for things to be eased up a bit. And that's.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's all I would ask. I would want to ask Sabrina, like, you know, the biggest untruth that I've heard in this whole situation is Wendy was incapacitated. Yeah. But she's not.
DJ Envy
But at the end.
Charlamagne Tha God
So why is as her. Why is she as a guardian letting that be out there?
DJ Envy
Wendy's asking, hey, I'm not. Let me test. Let me go to a doctor. Let me prove it. And they won't even allow her to prove it. Well, they're saying that's the craziest thing.
Louis V
They're saying if anyone talk to the cats.
Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
This new commercial from Stand up to All Hate? It's Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady spewing hate at each other. But when you really listen to them, the reasons are just so stupid. This one really stopped me. It's a strong reminder that hate in our country continues to be out of control. So join us at the Breakfast Club and standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up, Call it out and learn more by following supwithhate.
Just Hilarious
No, but I haven't talked to the cats yet. But in Vanity Fair, Sabrina said that the cats actually were given to a home because Wendy didn't want to split the cats up because Wendy could only have one cat in the spot that she was staying. I forgot. Yeah. So, you know, that's what they're alleging happened with the cats, but I haven't. You know what I mean? I didn't tap into the litter box. I haven't reached out to sources close yet.
Louis V
I need you to get that.
Just Hilarious
Got you.
Louis V
Okay.
DJ Envy
You got sauces at the litter box.
Just Hilarious
We figured things out over here, baby. That's what we do.
Charlamagne Tha God
You calling the litter box.
Louis V
Another. Another random observation. You looking real neo soul. Lauren.
Just Hilarious
You see me? I'm touching.
Louis V
I know that's right.
Just Hilarious
You know, I am not my.
Louis V
He was listening. He was listening to Ms. Stone on the way in. Look like you're ready for the Cocoa Butterfest.
Charlamagne Tha God
And Jess, you look like you was listening to Missy Misdemeanor Elliott on the way in, and I was not.
Louis V
I was not.
Charlamagne Tha God
I love you with short hair, though.
Just Hilarious
I texted this morning saying yes, hair.
Louis V
Thank you. I appreciate it.
DJ Envy
All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Now when we come back, we got front page news. And then David Banner will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Jess Hilarious
Wake up, wake up.
Charlamagne Tha God
You're locked into the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Morgan?
Morgan
Good morning, y'all. So you heard the caller of, you know, basically voicing his gripes about daylight savings time. So I just wanted to drop this in real quick. So most Americans, of course, they move their clocks forward for daylight savings time. The hospitals did you know they see a significant increase in heart attack related visits following daylight savings time? So the exact reason isn't actually clear, but experts think it's the lost hour of sleep. It plays a big role in disrupting the body's natural rhythm. So maybe try to catch a nap you know, where you can. Throughout this week, if you can, to try to just regulate and reset that bio clock.
Charlamagne Tha God
So that's some good information. I never thought about that. Yeah, yeah.
Morgan
Just try to get a little bit of extra sleep. Usually what they say is leading up to the day, try to, you know, get some extra sleep, get some extra rest in just to, you know, again, get yourself. Your body used to that. That new clock. Switching gears. The first transgender person elected to Congress is being misgendered on Capitol Hill. In a House meeting that happened on Tuesday, Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride was. Was introduced by committee chairman Keith Self as. Mr. McBride.
Charlamagne Tha God
He's following the law. He's following the law. There was an executive order. The President said that there's only two genders. Morgan. He's following the law.
Morgan
I'm just reporting on it.
Louis V
Look.
Morgan
McBride then responded to the Texas Republican by saying, thank you, Madam Chair. So, you know, things got a little petty. Massachusetts Democrat Bill Keating then came to the defense of McBride, asking Self to repeat his introduction. So let's take a listen to that exchange.
Charlamagne Tha God
Nas the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
Morgan
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Just Hilarious
Ranking Member Keating also.
Charlamagne Tha God
Wonderful. Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again, please? Yes, it's a. It's a. We have set the standard on the floor of the House, and I'm simply. What is that standard? Mr. Chairman, would you repeat what you just said? And you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America. Please. I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride. Chairman, you are out of order. Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent. We will continue this. You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way. See, he being funny.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
How many. He being funny. He wanted to hear him say. Mr. McBride again. He being funny, man. He being funny.
Morgan
Said he was following the standard of the House floor. After Keating asked Self if he had any decency, as you heard in the audio, the Chairman banged his gavel and quickly adjourned the meeting. So, you know, when stuff like this happens, y'all, we ain't getting anything accomplished. So that's not good.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey. She gave it right back to him, though. She called him mad. What did you say? Madam. Madam Chair.
DJ Envy
Madam Chair.
Morgan
Madam Chair.
DJ Envy
Yeah, but I wonder, right, for people who got fired from misgendering, people that didn't say that, do they get their jobs back? Because it's an executive order now.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's an executive order. I don't Know what you want that man to do? The man is following the law. Like, soon as that person would have said, yo, you out of order, I would have been like, no, it's actually an executive order. What are we supposed to do in this situation? See, nobody tells us what to do in these situations.
Louis V
This is the thing, though. How can they not, like, get enlisted in the Army? Remember, you stopped them from, like, being in the army, but they can be in the. What is that, a Congress? Congressman. All right, how can they do that? But they can't. Like, I don't get it.
Morgan
We already elected. You know, you can't. You can't. You're elected by your constituents.
Louis V
Oh, so this person been one of them.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yep. Sorry. All right.
Louis V
Okay.
DJ Envy
Been.
Charlamagne Tha God
By one of them, you mean a member of Congress?
Jess Hilarious
No.
Louis V
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, obviously, yeah. But yeah. Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
Because she been one of them.
Louis V
They've been. Yeah. Been both. Honest. Okay, got it.
Morgan
Okay, y'all. So moving forward, protests are ongoing calling for the release of former Columbia grad student and pro Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. The Trump administration noted his arrest by ICE over the weekend was first of many. Khalil, a permanent resident with a green card, helped organize an anti Israel protest that started last week. Last spring, or, excuse me, spoke at that protest as well. Hundreds of people gathered at Manhattan's Washington Square park on Tuesday, listing their demands and speaking up for Khalil's rights. Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson. He also weighed in on Mahmoud Khalil. Mahmoud, let's hear from House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Charlamagne Tha God
If you're on a student visa, I'm gonna say this clearly. If you were on a student visa and you're in America and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home.
Morgan
So again, Khalil was arrested over the weekend and is being held at a detention center in Louisiana. He hasn't been charged with an official cr. Like, he hasn't been charged with a crime. A deportation hearing is set for today. So according to federal law, though you must see an A judge and for an arraignment without necessary delay, if you are in federal custody at a preliminary hearing and within 14 days, 21 days, if you are not in custody. So again, he is being held. He has not been charged with anything, and he has this deportation hearing set for today. So again, we will continue to keep you posted as what happens there.
Charlamagne Tha God
And, you know, you know, if you believe, like I said yesterday, if you believe in freedom of speech, if you believe in freedom of protest. You should be raising holy hell about that situation. I don't have to agree with what you're saying, but I can agree with your right to say it. And if he doesn't have the right to say it, then eventually none of us will have the right to say a lot of things. That's right.
Morgan
There was a social media post I saw that was like, let's get this straight, that the President of the United States has sent someone, sent law enforcement to round up someone for speaking? Yeah, for speaking.
DJ Envy
That's crazy.
Morgan
That's it. Like, just talking.
DJ Envy
That's crazy.
Morgan
So, yeah. All right, y'all, that's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on social at Morgan Media. For more news news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at bin news.com have a great day.
DJ Envy
You too.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now.
DJ Envy
And I just want to add this to all my flyers out there. People that fly Southwest Airlines, salute to Tesla and Figaro. That's her favorite airlines. Southwest Airline, known for its bags fly free policy. It's making some changes. So starting May 28, you will now have to pay for your bags. All right, So I just want to put that out there. You know, anybody that flies Southwest, you fly Southwest. Jess Morgan, Chulament.
Morgan
It depends.
Louis V
It depends. I fly there sometimes because they, they famous for getting you there when you need to be there when you don't want no layover.
Morgan
So, yeah, I was gonna say they are. They. I, I like Southwest. I feel like they've been low key under the radar, like the, one of the best airlines. Like, low key.
Louis V
They're not about to be, though, because when everybody gotta pay for their bags, we might as well go to Delta.
Morgan
Also talking about, you know, ending their or starting assigned seating as well with that, too. So I will say and see, in September, CEO Bob Jordan said that having no bag fees was a huge consumer advantage that they had. So. Yeah, well, they also, yeah, like I said, they're also set to end open seating at the first half of 2026. But it's so funny because Amtrak actually poked fun at Southwest yesterday, saying, guess what, we're the only ones doing free baggage now. And I think that this is going to be a shift in the way that we travel. You know, people will probably start taking buses and trains.
Charlamagne Tha God
No.
Louis V
They switch airlines, but nobody going to switch format trains, transportation like that.
DJ Envy
They'll go to Frontier.
Morgan
Even considering the fact that, you know, these airlines and these aviation accidents have been happening.
Charlamagne Tha God
I got to get to where I'm going fast. Yeah. And. And it's not. The accidents aren't happening like that. It's not commercial airlines falling out the sky like that. Now cut it out.
DJ Envy
Yep.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Morgan
All right, well, you know, just to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Get on a bus. I'm about to travel two days to get to Cali.
Morgan
Cali is different. But, you know, coming to New York, you know, someone like me, I'm not. I might not get on a plane to New York. I might have to train.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I've done that before. I've taken the train, but I ain't getting on a busy.
Louis V
You said I ain't riding the bus, though.
DJ Envy
All right.
Louis V
Well, all right.
DJ Envy
Thank you, Morgan. When we come back, David Bannon will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Just as out Lon LaRosa filling in. We got a special guest in the building, David Banner. How you feeling, brother?
Jess Hilarious
I'm feeling so good.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good to see you. I'd like to hear that.
DJ Envy
What's been going on, brother?
Jess Hilarious
Man, so much. First of all, I want to say thank you to you all. There's a lot of amazing things. There are a lot of things that are changing in my life. I'm making a whole lot of money.
Charlamagne Tha God
You've been doing this.
Jess Hilarious
It's different now. You know what I'm talking about? I just shook your pockets down. You know what I'm talking about? 400,000 fell out this man pocket, man. Oh, that's just changed. Nah, man. But the thing is, man, I wanted to thank y'all because a lot of times we invest our time, and you all have built a certain crowd and certain rapport with people. So for you all to give me the opportunity to grow and turn into this thing, because, you know, this is sort of sad, but Prince died. You know, as much as that hurts me, it did open up the opportunity for me to be the sexiest on this planet.
Charlamagne Tha God
And it has happened.
Jess Hilarious
And the Breakfast Club has allowed me to slide into that place.
DJ Envy
Don't you start wearing the mask out.
Charlamagne Tha God
Jeez, now, don't you start now.
Just Hilarious
Was this the energy Homegirl felt on that NAACP red carpet? That was the sexiest ever energy.
Charlamagne Tha God
You tell us, Lauren.
Jess Hilarious
I mean, let me tell you something about that. I do want to clear this up, though, is that people think that I'm joking about my admiration for black women. I'm dead serious. And what some people are uncomfortable with, they're not used to a black man giving admiration. And I don't want anything from you just because I think that you're beautiful. Just because I speak about, you know, how I feel about the black woman in general. I don't want anything from you but to let you know how I feel. And sometimes we don't believe in ourselves. And it's hard to really think that there is a man that really, really feels that way without it having some type of game connected to it. Because, bro, I'll say this, and nobody ever noticed it. Since I've been in college, SGA president at Southern University, I have consistently, for the most part, outside of my actual art, been the same man consistently. I have never sold our people out. I've never done anything flaw. And it's like when we do something, they either try to make a joke of it or poke. You know, when I came out and say I'm ready to be married, you know, people found a way to poke at that. I thought you said, you know, not having any diseases, not whooping on nobody rping nobody, not having 4,000 kids. I thought that was amazing and awesome, you know, so for me, I am again grateful you talked about it.
Charlamagne Tha God
I did see people getting on you about this. Why now at the age of 50, do you think you're ready to settle down?
Jess Hilarious
All right, peep this now. So people talk about love languages, right? I told a young lady this and it shocked her. I said, what are your main love languages? What do you see and want out of a man? She said, I want him to be successful and I want him to spend time.
Charlamagne Tha God
How?
Jess Hilarious
I'm a activist, a top tier producer, a top tier rapper actor. I do more than most people do in their one career. In my five or four or five careers. If you want me to be successful, when in the do I have time? People haven't noticed. People didn't notice my 10 year run. Think about this, dude. When I wasn't putting out like a pimp, I was producing Wayne or Chris Brown or Maroon 5 or Quincy Jones.
Charlamagne Tha God
Quincy Jones.
Jess Hilarious
I did that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, okay.
Jess Hilarious
Me and Warren Campbell. Yep. Or I was acting. People forget Black Snake moan. It's funny. They think that I'm just starting this. I've been, I've done 38 films or television shows, right? One of the top people on the speaking circuit, right. When do I have time? So then if I were to get a wife, she'll be at home, I'll be an absent provider and then People would talk about I didn't raise my kids or didn't have time with my wife. We have to choose what it is we want to do. But usually, if you want something that bad, you have to sacrifice that other thing that you wanted the most. But the cool thing is, when I do find her, she don't have to want my kids won't have to. I'll be able to go to their football games. I'll be able to take years out to make sure that they. All right. So I just hate what people say because I love black folks so much, and I can't act like it don't bother me. Envy it does, you know?
Just Hilarious
But why I was gonna ask you, did the marriage conversation bother you? Because it's kind of backwards for people to be upset when you're accomplishing. You can devote that time. They're like, bro, so you don't ran like, they made it almost like a. They made it. Not almost. They made it a negative thing for you to say, I'm ready now because I can devote the time and energy. How did that make you feel?
Jess Hilarious
And I'm doing superhero movies. Like, how you gonna be out here? You 50, you 50, you 50. Y'all know that don't work with my job, you with my money.
DJ Envy
Why are you doing that?
Jess Hilarious
Because I. Look, sweetheart, do me a favor. I know you used to gazing at mortals. Close your eyes on open them. It's about the closest you're gonna get to God.
Just Hilarious
Okay.
Jess Hilarious
That happened.
Just Hilarious
Yeah.
Jess Hilarious
So insane.
Just Hilarious
I'm feeling the carpet vibes. I get it.
Jess Hilarious
Doesn't stop, baby.
Charlamagne Tha God
Wait.
Just Hilarious
Do you feel like the pushback came mostly from women or men on the marriage competition?
Jess Hilarious
I never heard anything from me.
Just Hilarious
Okay.
Jess Hilarious
I actually have to say that something happened recently that I don't want to talk about. And black men stood up for me. They really, really stood up for me. Like, my family called me and said, man, go look in the comments, bro. Like, black men are saying, like, he. He the one that always stands up. He was the one that was at Katrina. He was the one that. When this happened, and that why are we doing this to him? You know? And what I'll say about the black woman is that my resurgence is because of the black woman and their love and admiration for me. And usually it's just one person. See, we don't read the comments. T. Pain taught me this, like, and that's somebody that I have love and admiration for. He is one of the premier people in our culture, and we should treat him better. I Just want to say that. Shout out to Ali Siddiq too. One of my favorite comedians in the whole wide planet, bro. That's my homie. That we should just make sure that we do better with treating each other, you know, and respecting each other. And a black woman has done that. For me, it's just a lot of loud, negative voices. It's one or two people. And what I will say is black women will tell somebody ass up about their David Banner. And I just have to find a way to group those people together. And I've started a company called the Banner Vision, my movie company. We're about to do sci fi movies. And I'm really, really excited about it. And it's funny because I want to do a movie that's similar to Love Jones. And people will say, david Banner, I thought you were doing sci fi. I said, well, isn't black love in the media right now science fiction? Because we damn sure don't see it.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's my wife's favorite movie, you know, Love Jones and Color Purple.
Jess Hilarious
And I really want to do it with Jill Scott. Cause like, I want a different body type. I want a different type of sexy. Jill Scott is sexy in a way that beautiful. Oh my God. Just like she's all aura. She from Philly, but she got that Mississippi. Oh, and you know, just on, just on the low. I don't know. I should see if she want me to talk about it. Too late. I'm actually helping her with her album right now. That's all I can say right now.
DJ Envy
That's dope.
Jess Hilarious
Jill Scott. And it has been one of the most eye opening because I only really produce, you know what I'm saying? People that I love or care for or like, young artists that I really believe in. Music is taking a lot away from my spirit. So why Good or bad, it's the business of it. And because we have gone into streaming, it's forcing the more talented people out. Because as a businessman, it don't make no sense for me to spend all the money that I spend. Most people don't spend money on music. Watch this. They have taken away American society and we have allowed them to do this, have taken away any hustle that we can do in becoming a millionaire or a billionaire in a lifetime.
Charlamagne Tha God
Me and Duvall talk about that all the time, especially when you're black music.
Jess Hilarious
They tried to take away movies, but they were still making a lot of money off of that. So they didn't. Because think about this. As much as they, they went to War about movies. They had just done the same thing to music. They had just taken all of the money. They take it. They took the foundation. They put AI on top of it. They were trying to do the same thing to music. I mean, movies and white folks, like, no, we still making a lot of money. Y'all can't do that to us yet. Dope. And I'm not saying the sale, though, but anything that we could do to make money and catch up with them, they have taken it away from us, and we run right behind them and let them do it every time. Family business. New Orleans is on bet. Plus, it's very important for you to watch. My name is David.
DJ Envy
All right, we got more with David Ben. And when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lon LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking in with David Banner.
Charlamagne Tha God
Charlemagne, I saw you in the interview. You said black people don't take care of our og. So you don't want to be an OG in the black community because we don't take care of our elders. We don't take care of our leaders. Yeah, I tend to agree with you, my brother.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, it's.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, but you can't help it if you an og.
Just Hilarious
You gonna be that regardless of that and say, well, what else you gonna be? Cause you. You there for a lot of people.
Jess Hilarious
Well, the thing is, is that it's cool, but I'm telling you that I don't want it so you can get that energy to somebody else. Don't give me my flowers. I can't spend or eat flowers. I want your money and your attention. I want the same thing you give white people. Give me your money and attention. If you're not giving me that, I'm not an og. I said this in that same interview. I was debating one time, and I said, do you all. Do black people think I'm the antithesis of Trump? And they said, yes, I do the opposite. Right. Okay, well, then that means I should have as much money from the black community as Trump gets from the white community. If you love me that way. But we. We say one thing and do the, do the, do the other. Oh, we want positive music, but you don't pay for positive music. Oh, we want a leader, but you don't take care of your leaders. In that same clip, it was crazy. I don't know if you saw this. It went sort of Viral. They put that part where they said, I don't want to be an og. I want to be an OG because you don't take care of your elders. Then they cut to, I believe, Malcolm X's daughter. And somebody asked her, do you think that the black community took care of your family? And she said, I don't believe so. So why would I want to be something? Why would our kids want to be a king when we allowed the other one to get killed? Kids don't. That's one of the reasons why I'm so fly. That's one of the reasons why I went and, you know, I'm whipping the Ferraris and I'm whipping the Lamborghinis on purpose. Because when kids usually see somebody conscious they broke. Why we don't have to. We give everybody else our disposable money. Even if every black person gave. This is something I'm gonna try. Me and you, we gonna talk about this. Think about how powerful this show is, right? And I say, here go my cash app. My name is David Banner. I wanna shoot a $7 million movie. Let's raise the money right now on the Breakfast Club right now. Here go my cash app. I ain't gotta go through nobody else. I'm going to the people. That's true power. But are we willing to really do that? Because most of it comes from self hate. I don't believe that. I'm so. How dare David Banner call himself a God? How. How dare David Banner look that good that. You know what I'm saying? My wife and my daughter and all the women around me really want to have as much sex with him as they possibly can. But I don't know if it's possible.
Just Hilarious
The way he just looked at me, I was like, what is happening right now? I'm not sweating. I just.
Morgan
It was.
Just Hilarious
It was the intentional. The intentional look.
DJ Envy
It was.
Just Hilarious
It was a piercing look. I'm like, you know what you're doing.
Jess Hilarious
But. But doesn't that feel. But doesn't that feel. Feel good, though? Seriously?
Just Hilarious
Yeah, it's very intentional.
Jess Hilarious
Think about it. It's intentional and what I. What I would want to do.
Just Hilarious
Maybe I am sweating.
DJ Envy
You are sweating. Just tap.
Charlamagne Tha God
Just pat.
Jess Hilarious
Just pat.
Just Hilarious
I think I'm glowing, but that's a whole nother conversation. Do you feel like your love and commitment to the black community affects your. Your mental health?
Louis V
Hell, yeah.
Jess Hilarious
Affects my money, affects my relationships. I fell in love once with a woman that wasn't 100% black, but she didn't look black.
Charlamagne Tha God
Dr. Umar would not have approved, But I'm not.
Jess Hilarious
That. That part I don't worry about, because we live our lives for other people. Only thing I give a about is being happy. You know what I'm saying? We live our lives for outside people. And to be honest with you, I probably should have stayed with her. I'd have been a lot happier. But I cared too much about the perception of what my people thought, and I shouldn't have done that. I should have just did what was best for me.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, I want to talk. You talk about therapy. You know, I love therapy. You know, I love just being on a journey of healing. And I saw you say you had to overcome some mental health issues, and physically, you've always pretty much kept yourself together. What made you realize you had to get it together mentally and emotionally?
Jess Hilarious
Bro, this last time, I went through it, dawg, it was the first time in my life that I thought that I may not come out of it. I've been through a lot, dawg. People. These kids say they want to be famous, but imagine coming from the streets. And where we from, we don't allow people in. Y'all know this. I didn't smile the first two years of my career. The Mississippi, the album days we don't smile. Where we from?
Charlamagne Tha God
What led you to therapy?
Jess Hilarious
My mentor, David Moody, he owns one of the most successful black construction companies in the United States. And I had a mentor. It was actually a woman. And she came to me one day, and she was like, I can't do nothing with you no more. And I was like, what? She said, you need a black man in your life. And so this. Right after my dad died, she introduced me to Mr. Moody. And then Mr. Moody became my mentor. And he was really open to me. And it's funny, I was talking to my publicity team, and this is something that I want to say, and y'all tell me if it's the same with y'all. I didn't talk to my homeboys about that was going on with me. Like, I just recently had a conversation with my friends about anxiety. I'm like, dude, I been in the streets tough, tough. Why in the am I having anxiety about that's not life threatening?
Charlamagne Tha God
Been dealing with it my whole life.
Jess Hilarious
It made me feel soft. I'm like, what the am I tripping for? I was on a really big show recently and had a anxiety attack. Me, dog.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm Equalizer.
Jess Hilarious
I can't tell y'all.
Charlamagne Tha God
They gonna be looking for it.
DJ Envy
They gonna be looking for But I.
Jess Hilarious
Had a straight out anxiety attack. But then I realized how important it was for me to have a better team. Cause I was doing too much, bro. I was doing the accounting, handling the guns, dealing with folks in the streets. And, you know, I'm always talking to people. I had to get a. Huh? I'm not supposed to say guns.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, I got all my guns illegal.
Lauren LaRosa
They registered.
Charlamagne Tha God
You don't need to handle the guns.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, Anyway, but I was just. Shoot, I was just training. Oh, yeah. Anyway, but what I was saying was, is that, you know, and I wasn't talking to my friends. And Mr. Moody said, they not your friends if you can't talk to them. Because in the streets in Jackson, you don't trust nobody. I don't care who it is. So I had always been taught to not talk about it and just hold it all in. And, y'all, this is very personal. My cortisol levels were so high that it was eating my body up. Like, that's how stressed I was, man. And it was killing me. And so Mr. Moody said, Just talk to your friends. And I called up my five tightest homeboys. And it was crazy. Cause it was like they were waiting on me to talk. I was like, my toughest homeboy. One of my toughest homeboys. He from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I called him. I was like, hey, B, bro, have you ever had an anxiety attack? He was like, yeah. And like, now we talk. And it's crazy. Cause everybody tripped. I be on the phone with my homeboy. I love you, dawg. I love you with all my heart, bro. I'mma talk to you later. Cause we don't know if they gonna live. You know what I'm saying, bro? So I had to do it, man. And because I'm, you know, outwardly tougher than most people, I can say stuff to these children that most people are scared to say. Like, I can say I had an anxiety type. That won't stop me from choking you. You know what I'm saying? That won't stop me from putting these legal firearms. But no, man, I'm grateful to God, though. Cause think about it. That now draws us closer. So for me to stand up as a man and say, yeah, y'all, I'm all of these things, but I'm also not perfect. I don't know if y'all saw that clip. That clip went super viral. This young lady asked. She said, david Banner, you got it so together. And I stopped. I said, no, baby, I'm a wreck. She was like, no. She couldn't believe it. She was like, no. I was like, yeah, baby. And I'm only telling you that I'm a wreck. So that whenever you become a wreck, you know that you can still get up, put on some clothes, and keep it moving every day. When y'all see me vibrating, when y'all see me talking this, it's because I am healed. And I'm going to do everything that I possibly can to be a consummate example of what a man looks like in America. And I hope that I make y'all proud.
DJ Envy
All right, we got more with David Bannon when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Louis V
Good morning, everybody.
DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with David Banner, actor, rapper, and activist. All right, Charlemagne, I want to ask.
Charlamagne Tha God
You one more question before you go. What's more treacherous? The music industry, Hollywood, or the streets?
Jess Hilarious
I think it's definitely not the streets. I think the streets. You know what it is? It's clear. And that's what I. I tell people this all the time. My preference is Mississippi white people. And they say, why? If a Mississippi white person loves you, they would die for you. If a Mississippi white person doesn't like you, they'll try to kill you. Unlike you, living up here next to a white person and working with them every day, and they smiling in your face. And then it's time for you to retire and your pension gone. The industry, and they've been smiling in your face all the time. At least I know what it is. And it's so funny, man. I fell into believing that this construct that we call the music industry and the movie industry, that is any different, it's no difference. It's oppressive. It's built for you to fail. And that's one of the reasons why a lot of people get mad at me, because as a producer, think about it, I probably lost 20, 30 million. I'm one of the top producers, and I never put out an artist. And the reason why I never put out artists is because I care about human beings. And I know the game is about throwing 35 people lives on the wall, and you have to become callous in order to do that. That's the reason why hustlers do so, so good in the music industry, because they've done so much on the streets that they've already become callous. So being callous in this, easy. You know what I had to do out in front of my grandma house I had to serve my uncle. And you think I give up about this music? That's easy. I care about people. If I with you, I mean it. One of your friends and I whisper in your ear and tell you who it is. I had to tell him. You might have to rethink our friendship. Because I'm serious. If I say I, you, I mean it. So if you come in town, it ain't that you gotta check in with me, but I want to see my friend. I'm excited. I really think we homies. I don't throw that around, bro. So for me, I'll say at least you know what the streets are. It is what it is. You know what it is. It ain't personal. Let's keep it moving. What I do like about the movies is that usually as an actor, if I step on set, my check there, and so it is what it is. I might not get much on the back end until I'm able to negotiate at that level. But I know this amount of money, I can run with this money and I'm gone. It ain't personal, you know what I'm saying? But what I will say is that I plan on being one of the best actors who ever touched the screen. I'm very serious about black art. I really think, you know, as much as I love music, if people can't see it, people don't understand. One of the reasons why the west coast popped off the way that they did is because they had hour, an hour and a half long video to go with the music. When Snoop and them came out, Dre and them came out. What else did they have? Minister society boys in the hood. So, like, they had all of that. And we really didn't believe that it was that until we saw the movies and then we had the music. Oh, for real? Cause people could say what they want to. They wasn't smoking like that til Snoop came out. Till we saw it on the screen, we was like, yo. And if you think about the south, we still haven't had that one movie.
Charlamagne Tha God
Nope.
Jess Hilarious
That properly depicts the South.
Charlamagne Tha God
Nope.
Jess Hilarious
If you really think about the South, I always tell. I tell people this. They use us for cheap labor because we still don't have our Will Smith. We still don't have our Queen Latifah. We're very close to it. We still don't have our Ice Cube yet. And as much as we talk stuff until we can cut a check from where we stand, then it's still New York and la. So, like, for me, that's what I want to do. I want to cut a check. I don't want to beg for dei. I want to give you the job. Then we ain't got to worry about this them. Because even in strike, y'all. And I know they don't want me to talk about this, but how. How dare someone try to take away your whole livelihood, take away your likeness, show you that they want to cut everything, every tie that you have to sustainable, lifelong generational wealth. They're going to cut that away from you. And then because they give you some scraps now we okay. Like when Tip and Ernestine boycotted Houstons in Atlanta. I still ain't been there. I still. I'm not going back. Once somebody show me what they really, really mean and how they feel about me, I ain't never going back. You for life forever until you show me in your efforts over time that you have changed. So for me, y'all, like, when do we start identifying? And this is one thing that I want to say about the kids. This is what I love about the young revolutionaries. They don't talk about the man. The man?
Charlamagne Tha God
No.
Jess Hilarious
Edward Jenkins, who lives at 156 Solid street and once said, yeah, let's go get that mother. Let's talk about this board member. Let's specifically go to his house. That's revolutionary. That's that we should do family business.
Charlamagne Tha God
Let's get banned out of it.
Jess Hilarious
Say something about family business.
Just Hilarious
That doesn't mean I've seen it.
DJ Envy
It was.
Just Hilarious
You're good. You're great in it. Lela Rashawn is like, I love her, love the dynamic. But I wanted. Cause because when I watched that, and I know before you've talked about loving acting so much, it almost made you leave music. You're not thinking about doing that again, right?
Jess Hilarious
I just stepped away from music. I am almost to the point financially. I'm very close where I want to get back to making music. Like when we made it in high school, I can put out music and it don't really matter. I could just do it from a very pure place. I spend a lot. I still mix and master. I still pay artists. I still pay the bass players. So music is expensive to make. And black people give their money to tech companies. They don't give it to the artists. That's so stupid to me. People who don't even care about music. But like, to be honest with you, bro, every time I go back to music is when I get depressed, I start feeling that way again and I feel less Free. So I said this in an interview. If God is constantly saying, son, every time you go over there, you get hurt, why in the. You keep going over there? So, like, you know, bro, The God Box 2 is probably my best album album. Even better than the first one. So many people jumped on Griselda, bro. They whole click jumped on the album for me, bro. Shoot, bro. Like, you name it, they own it. Tip two chains just. Everybody came through for me, Raheem. But I just feel like, man, like with. With the. With the movies, like I told you on the west coast, I can show people how I want them to think. I want to lead this interview with saying this. I think that black people look at freedom same way they look at death. Death may be better. We don't know. But the fact that we don't know, we don't want to try it out. So it's the same thing with freedom. Until they know what freedom looks like, we got to show them what it looks like. Think about our iPhone. If you look at Star Trek, besides teleportation, all that we could do on our iPhone, now, that's what sci fi is. It's preparing us for a future. I said this, man. It was a young black girl who came in crying uncontrollably. Her dad say, what's wrong? Why are you crying? She said, daddy, are there gonna be any black folks in the future? He said, why? She said, cause I was watching the Jetsons, and I didn't see any. So as much as we put out good music, if people don't know what that looks like, it don't matter. Banner vision. I love y'all. I appreciate it. Make sure that y'all go and stream and look at family business. You can look at all the episodes like we like to do. That's right. Even though y'all, we need y'all to watch it every week so we can have those elongated stats that we need. Because if you look at it in one. One sitting, then we're only gonna get that credit for that day or for that week. But what I'll tell you is, like, put on family business when you Family business New Orleans, when you cleaning up, and just let it stream all day.
DJ Envy
When you cook it.
Jess Hilarious
Just do that for me when you're cooking, even if you don't watch it, because I'll be honest with y'all. There's some black movies that come out. I'll pay for the ticket and then go watch Avengers. I sneak in Avengers like I did.
Charlamagne Tha God
Back in the day.
Jess Hilarious
I'm just being honest with you. I'm gonna get in my brain.
Charlamagne Tha God
Between this and the guns you carrying in the club, you gotta stop telling on yourself.
Jess Hilarious
No, I'm telling them what I want them to do. If they gonna pay for a banner vision and then they go watch something else.
Charlamagne Tha God
I want that off.
Jess Hilarious
Give me the bread. What? I say give me the bread.
DJ Envy
And your attention, David Banner, ladies and gentlemen.
Charlamagne Tha God
Fight night too. Check banner out on fight night. On Peacock. That's right.
Jess Hilarious
And an equalizer. Queen Latifah. I'm on that. Hey, y'all. But seriously, y'all. Thank y'all.
Charlamagne Tha God
Thank you. Appreciate y'all. Charlamagne, the God here. And I want you to know from Curtis, 50 Cent, Jackson and the executive producers of Power, the hit stars original series Raising Canaan is coming back. The new season of the family crime drama continues the origin story of fan favorite Kanan Stark, originally played by 50 Cent in the flagship series Power, as he delves further into his evolution from a devoted son into the ruthless villain that fans have known and loved from the jump. This is a transformative season for Kanan that you won't want to miss. Watch the new season of Raising Kanan only on Starz and the Starz app.
DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Jess Hilarious
Hey, fam.
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DJ Envy
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Jess Hilarious
Oh, we love y'all and it was an honor to meet you, man.
Just Hilarious
It was nice meeting you too.
Jess Hilarious
I would have flirted with you a little bit more, but I don't want people to think that I'm just a whore.
DJ Envy
He needs his jacket back too.
Jess Hilarious
No, I don't.
DJ Envy
I'm sorry.
Just Hilarious
Oh, I do. It's there.
DJ Envy
It's the Breakfast Club. It's David Banner. We'll let them do their thing later.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, air his chest.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
Louis V
Lauren becoming a straight fan.
DJ Envy
She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets the details.
Just Hilarious
I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on you.
Jess Hilarious
The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
Just Hilarious
So there was just an award that happened to Le'Veon Bell's cousin. Le'Veon Bell is ex Michigan tailback. He's also used to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers. His cousin had filed suit alleging that he had raped her for years and she was just awarded $25 million by default in that case.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now why you didn't answer the the case?
Just Hilarious
Yes. So that is exactly what happened. So this was. This has been going on for Some months. But Leon said that he just found out about this. Let's take a listen to Le'Veon talking about why the default judgment happened.
Charlamagne Tha God
Fast forward to 2022. Right in the beginning. Moved or whatever. Like, hey, look, Jada, I know you. You know what I'm saying?
Jess Hilarious
I usually show you some love and.
Charlamagne Tha God
Throw you some money, but I can't.
DJ Envy
Do it this month.
Charlamagne Tha God
I can't tell you no extra money this month. When I said that, she instantly went.
Jess Hilarious
In the text message, oh, you can't pay me.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, okay, we gonna see who the bad guy is.
Jess Hilarious
I said, jay, what the hell you talking about?
Charlamagne Tha God
We're gonna see who the bad guy is? Then we gonna see. Fast forward to. We're here today. News breakout. Oh, man. All right, bro.
Jess Hilarious
You know, when that was chat, she ended up getting evicted because I didn't pay her. I was paying for everything. Oh, did I hit her with the.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right, this week?
DJ Envy
This.
Charlamagne Tha God
This month, I can't do it. I have seven kids and six PMs, bro. Do y'all think lady on Bell me, myself, do I need to force myself upon a woman?
Jess Hilarious
Indian too, by the way. It's like, if I wanted to go be with a man, I'll go be with a man. I'm not saying I do, but I'm.
Charlamagne Tha God
Gonna say what I did. I could.
Just Hilarious
Now, he was on a live stream responding to this after the people started picking up the rule, and the 25 million dollar actually came out like two weeks ago, but it's just getting picked up in the media. So he got on live stream and responded yesterday. Now, that was the background of, like, how their fallout happened. But he does talk specifically about how he was. How they missed this because this is a huge thing to be missed because you normally served and all of that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Before we move on, why did he start talking about sleeping with men at the end? Like, what was that?
DJ Envy
That's all you heard?
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm just asking, like, what was that about?
Just Hilarious
Because, I mean, there were. I think he was trying to address, you know, different allegations that people were throwing at him. But I don't think he had to if he didn't want to. Yeah. So let's take a listen to Le'Veon on the rape case.
Jess Hilarious
Jada Bell is my cousin, yo.
Charlamagne Tha God
But I just found out this was.
Jess Hilarious
Brewing up maybe about two days ago, suing you for, you know, sexual assault.
Lauren LaRosa
And this down the third.
Charlamagne Tha God
I said what?
Jess Hilarious
She said, you've been her and this, that and third, the same cousin that was at all My football games.
Charlamagne Tha God
The same cousin that was like, in Miami with me, like.
Jess Hilarious
Like when I was living there, following my tail everywhere when I went to.
Charlamagne Tha God
The jets, wanted to always come to the game.
Jess Hilarious
I was the cousin who was making all this money.
Charlamagne Tha God
Her brothers, her dad, all jealous, all envious of me.
Jess Hilarious
The whole time I was trying to take people to the top who did not even want to see me at the top. I say, mother says, bro, stop believing the headlines.
Charlamagne Tha God
She got rewarded $25 million strictly because behind closed doors, somebody fake the little signature some and went to the courts. So this has happened in 2020, 23.
Jess Hilarious
And 2024, and I didn't even know.
Charlamagne Tha God
I think it's crazy that people care more about the court of public opinions than they do the court of law, because if you get hit with something like that, with such serious accusations, and you. It's a default judgment where you owe $25 million. Why are you running to the Internet?
Just Hilarious
I'm not getting on the stream. Like, why I'm not.
DJ Envy
I'm sure he was trying to save his name, but that'll probably get overturned if he could prove that he's never got Gotten served or that the fact that it's not his signature, it'll get overturned. Same thing happened with Trey Songz. Remember Trey Songs got that. That judgment, and he had that overturned as well.
Just Hilarious
So Le'Veon's attorney has already come out and said that, you know, they adamantly denied this, as they have been doing, and that he was never. That Le'Veon was never served with a civil complaint. He says that Bell wasn't even living in Ohio at the time that he was reportedly served. So they have submitted, or they're in the process of submitting a motion to reverse the default judgment.
DJ Envy
Yeah, that'll. That'll be a default judgment that'll be reversed.
Just Hilarious
Yeah, because there was a trial by jury, but he wasn't there because he's saying he didn't know about it until, like, two days ago.
Charlamagne Tha God
I understand. I still think it's wild to run to the Internet and do a scream after being faced with those kind of accusations and having a default judgment for $25 million. Only person I'm talking to is my lawyer.
DJ Envy
Yeah, he might have other sponsorships.
Just Hilarious
He might be scared to get on.
DJ Envy
The phone deals that he just want to clear it up and be like, lie. That ain't me. This is what happened. So people know. Cause, you know, if he had a sponsorship or endorsed, I could be wrong, bro. They're quick to pull.
Charlamagne Tha God
Le'Veon Bell ain't been in the league in a while, right?
Just Hilarious
Nah, but. But I saw reports that he's making money because he's doing the boxing thing. He's streaming, like, so I think he's making money other places and didn't even. He retired with some good money. Right?
DJ Envy
I'm sure.
Just Hilarious
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
I just don't understand.
Just Hilarious
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
I would care about the court of law more than the court of public opinion, but that's just me.
Just Hilarious
Well, moving right along to responding to things on the Internet, Clarissa Shields sat down with Kiki Palmer for Baby, this is Kiki Palmer, and I'm sure that was.
Louis V
Shorty is crazy.
Just Hilarious
Yo, Jess, you saw it?
Louis V
Yeah. Kiki is wild for that.
Just Hilarious
Kiki, they had a. A big conversation about a lot of things, but she did ask about Remy Ma. Let's take a listen.
DJ Envy
Now.
Morgan
When are you knocking Remy Ma out?
DJ Envy
All right, Kiki, y'all know I had.
Morgan
To bring that up.
Louis V
The Internet is not a real place to be.
Just Hilarious
Listen, I woke up that morning just as shock as everybody else.
Morgan
I want to promote the movie. What is this a real.
Just Hilarious
How is it handling and dealing with all that new and not really new, but just even more popularity?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Just Hilarious
I have to tell myself, like, this.
Charlamagne Tha God
Comes with the territory.
Just Hilarious
You talking about being Beyonce, baby girl, and you're in boxing.
Anonymous
Beyonce get way more stuff than this, you know?
Just Hilarious
So I think it's not about the problem. It's about how you handle the problem. And I think I handled it very well. And, you know, everything trends for a minute, and then it goes away.
Charlamagne Tha God
I think what Kiki needs to remember in this situation is she is not a boxer who holds all four major world titles and three weight classes. Okay? She's not the first woman to become undisputed heavyweight champion. Okay? So when you say things like that about Remy Ma, Remy Ma might press.
DJ Envy
You, but not only that. As of last August 1st, Remy Ma is off of probation.
Just Hilarious
Oh, God. Well, they.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm just. I'm just. I like Kiki. You know what I'm saying? I'm just telling you that, you know, Remy gonna ask you about that when she sees.
Just Hilarious
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And I. When I saw it, I was like, it was a great conversation. And I love Kiki. That's my girl. But I was like, dang, Remy don't play by the same rules.
Charlamagne Tha God
Remy going. Remy's going to ask her about that when she sees.
DJ Envy
Wait, no, it's gonna start.
Charlamagne Tha God
Are you dumb?
DJ Envy
And that's how. That's where it's gonna start. Yeah. Are you dumb? And then it's gonna.
Just Hilarious
You know, Larissa handled it well, though. She said she's being Beyonce. She got her man. So.
Charlamagne Tha God
Great question, though.
DJ Envy
Of course.
Just Hilarious
And then it was a great question. Any of us would have asked it. Maybe not like that.
Charlamagne Tha God
That.
Just Hilarious
I wouldn't ask it like that.
Louis V
I mean, I wouldn't ask that because I don't. Why would she not? Remy out.
Just Hilarious
She changed into a fight.
Louis V
Not remember. I know, but that's not gonna happen. We. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, we. Not because we know what Remy do. We know it. Like, they wouldn't be in this. Like, come on, let's just.
DJ Envy
No, they're not.
Louis V
I mean, for. For the. The clicks of it all. Yeah, okay. It may be a good question for that, but it was just shocking that. It was shocking to me coming from Kiki.
Just Hilarious
Yeah. I think.
Louis V
I wouldn't expect for her to just straight say that. Like, Ryan, Destiny was like, oh, this is ghetto. Well, to be fair, a little ghetto.
Just Hilarious
Poor sis was wrapped in the middle of it. But as we wrap up, I just want to clarify for context, they were talking about, like, her other fights in her records, and then she brought it there. So, yeah, it don't matter. Kiki, my girl. I'm trying.
Louis V
And then gagged. I was like, oh, all right.
DJ Envy
My sources from Google say as of August 1st, she is now officially off probation.
Charlamagne Tha God
So I ain't saying all that. I ain't see you be talking. All I'm saying is that when Remy. Remy's gonna ask her about it when she see it. That's what I'm saying.
Louis V
You say Remy ain't on them papers no more. She can do more than that.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't think Remy will do all that. But she.
Louis V
No, I'm just saying she. She could if she wanted to do more than that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Lord have mercy.
DJ Envy
Okay. All right. Well, thank you for the ladies, for Lauren.
Jess Hilarious
Yes.
DJ Envy
Who you giving that? Don?
Charlamagne Tha God
I need Representative Keith Self of Texas to come to the front of. The Front of the congregation. Okay. He is the person who said something to the first transgender woman in Congress, Sarah McBride. And we need to discuss.
Just Hilarious
Oh, God.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
DJ Envy
All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club. This is America.
Jess Hilarious
There is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, you are a donkey. The latest on that police killing of a black man.
DJ Envy
Now to new developments in the deadly spa Shooting rampage.
Charlamagne Tha God
And yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did.
Just Hilarious
And so we are in a state of emergency, okay?
Charlamagne Tha God
White supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society.
Jess Hilarious
But I'm also very proud that my wife is white.
Charlamagne Tha God
The Breakfast Club.
Jess Hilarious
All right, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day?
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, donkey of the day for Wednesday, March 12, goes to Representative Keith Self of Texas. Now, I am fully aware that I am not mature enough to have certain conversations because my default setting is laughter, okay? I am a very unserious person because we live in the United States of anxiety. And I've been dealing with anxiety and panic attacks my whole life. And if it's one thing therapy has taught me is we must always find joy. And I find joy in jokes, okay? In this situation with Representative Keef Self gave me great joy. I laughed a lot because Keef Self decided to abruptly adjourn a congressional hearing on Tuesday after being challenged for referring to Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware as a man. Now, maybe you don't know, don't show, or don't give a Damn that Sarah McBride is the first openly transgender lawmaker in Congress, okay? That is a fact in the Europe subcommittee of the House of Foreign affairs panel. By the way, I have no idea what that is, but it sounds fancy. That panel was in the middle of a hearing on arms control and US Assistance to Europe when his chairman, Representative Keith Self of Texas, introduced his colleague by calling Sarah McBride. Mr. Let's go to 6 ABC News for the report, please.
DJ Envy
National hearing came to an abrupt end yesterday after a Republican colleague misgendered newly elected Delaware representative Sarah McBride.
Charlamagne Tha God
I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
Morgan
Thank you, madam Chair.
DJ Envy
As you just heard, Texas Republican Keith Self, the chairman of the House Foreign affairs committee, addressed McBride as Mr. McBride hit back by responding. Thank you, Madam Chair. McBride made history last year by becoming the first openly transgender person elected. Elected to Congress. After the exchange, Massachusetts Representative William Keating defended his Democratic colleague.
Charlamagne Tha God
Mr. Chairman, you are out of order. Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent. We will continue this. You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way South.
Jess Hilarious
Then immediately adjourned the meeting. McBride says she was disappointed and was prepared to move forward with questions for the subcommittee.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now, let the record show I believe Representative William Keating of Massachusetts was trying to be funny. Okay? He wanted Keith Self to repeat himself for the Same reason I wanted Keith Self to say it again for my own personal enjoyment. And you heard Keith Self. He doubled down and. Can we hear it again? One more time? Right. Can we hit. I want to hear it in full. Let me hear it in full now. As the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
Jess Hilarious
Thank you, madam Chair.
Just Hilarious
Ranking Member Keating, also wonderful.
Charlamagne Tha God
Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again, please? Yes, it's a. It's a. We have set the standard on the floor of the House. And I'm simply. What is that standard? Mr. Chairman, would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America, please? I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride. Mr. Chairman, you are out of order. Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent. We will continue this. You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way. I have to play white devil's advocate here because I understand where Mr. Self is coming from. Because I, too, have been wondering what to do in this situation. Because as Keith Self explained on social media, and I'm quoting him here, it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. Why? Because one of President Trump's early moves of his second term was to sign an executive order that the federal government would only recognize two sexes, and they were not changeable. Okay. An executive order was signed. It's right there in black and white. I don't know what to do in this situation. It's all so confusing. So, William Keating, you getting frustrated with Mr. Self when all he. He's doing is what your boss told him to do. Did a memo go out telling members of Congress what to do in this situation after Trump signed that executive order? Of course it didn't. So I'm not really upset at Keith Self for doing what the President told him to do. What I am upset about, and the reason I'm giving Keith Self donkey today is because he adjourned the session. See, these petty culture wars are hurting democracy. You heard me say earlier that they were in the middle of a hearing on arms control in US Assistance to Europe. I kind of know what that is. I believe I know what that means. But I know one thing for sure. That panel is more important than whether or not Sarah McBride is referred to as Mr. Or Ms. And you know, who knows that better than anyone? Sarah McBride. See, on other occasions, Republicans presiding over the floor and in hearings have either tried to stay away from the issue by Referring to Sarah as the member from Delaware, even though the custom is to refer to lawmakers as gentlemen are gentlewomen. I actually like them just referring to her as the member from Delaware, even though I don't know if Sarah has had their member surgically removed. But Sarah rarely discusses or calls attention to her identity. Okay. This is how she conducted herself on her campaign and in her first months of Congress. She prefers to talk about economic issues, and that's what I want all you elected officials to do. Focus on the actual issues that impact our world. Okay, Keith Self, there's no reason to adjourn a meeting because you was challenged on calling Sarah a him. When William Keating says, you out of order, say, well, hey, the president signed an executive order, and that's what I'm following. But to take your ball and run home because your ego got bruised. Come on, man, Grow up. You a member of Congress. We got bigger issues to deal with. You can't just take your balls and go home. And neither can Sarah McBride. Ironically. Ironically, she's the only person in this situation with balls. So you're right, Keith, but you're also wrong. Please give representative Keef Self the biggest he. Hulk. There's bigger issues to deal with, guys. And girls. And girl. Guys.
Louis V
It's crazy.
DJ Envy
Well, thank you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Big issues to deal with. That's all I'm saying.
DJ Envy
Thank you for that donkey today.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. All right, where we going now?
DJ Envy
Ah, okay. Well, what we doing?
Louis V
What is that? Why you be taking so long?
DJ Envy
Because I'm trying not to laugh because. But he's stupid, though. 800 you stupid?
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
DJ Envy
Is it?
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, that was harsh.
DJ Envy
All right, 800-585-1.051 let's clear it up a little bit. Let's clear it up a little bit. Woosah. Woosah. Woosah. Woosah. Woosah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Will we be silly with you? Yes.
Louis V
Nah, he stepped up.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. All right.
DJ Envy
Now we're talking about something that tragically happened. A southern university student, Caleb Wilson, he passed away. Allegedly, he was taking part in a hazing ritual, and that was the reason why he passed away. So we're asking. 805-85- killed. He was killed. 800-585-051. He was allegedly punched in the chest by a member of the organization where he was pledging with the boxing gloves, and he collapsed and began having. Began having seizures. So we're asking. 800-585-1051. Do you think hazing should be removed from the pledging process, or do you feel like it's tradition. We'd love to hear from the divine nine. We'd love to hear from anybody in a fraternity. 800-585-1051. That is the question. None of us up here are in a fraternity or sorority. I was pledging for one, but my grades didn't allow me to finish.
Charlamagne Tha God
I thought you couldn't hold on to the cane. I thought you said the cane. You told me the cane kept flipping out your hand.
DJ Envy
I did not see.
Charlamagne Tha God
You did tell me that before.
DJ Envy
I did not see.
Charlamagne Tha God
You want to be a capper, right?
DJ Envy
I did not say that. Yes, I was pledging Kappa. Oh. When I was in Hampton University.
Charlamagne Tha God
It was something with the cane.
DJ Envy
It was nothing with the cane. You miss making up stuff. I don't know what your fantasies are or fantasies were, but, yes, I was. And I couldn't follow through with the process because my grades weren't where they needed to be, so I could not pass. You had to have, I believe, of 3.5 average. I believe, at the time. And I didn't. Had a 3.4, and I could not.
Charlamagne Tha God
Not surprising. Yeah.
Louis V
All right.
DJ Envy
No, I swear. I swear I was a point away. If my one teacher's name was Dr. Kalan, if he would have gave me a 80 on the test, I would have been able to do it. And he gave me a 78. I remember that like it was yesterday, but, yeah. So that is the question. 800-585-1051. Do you think Hazen should be removed from the pledging process? Let's discuss. We'll take your calls when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's topic time.
Lauren LaRosa
Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion.
Charlamagne Tha God
With the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club now. If you're just joining us, we're talking about Caleb Wilson. Rest in peace. Caleb Wilson. He passed away. He went to Southern University and he was pledging. Let's hear the news report.
Just Hilarious
Three men facing felony charges in the.
Morgan
Death of a fraternity pledge have all been identified. Caleb McCray, charged with manslaughter and criminal hazing. Isaiah Smith and Kyle Thurman, also facing criminal hazing charges.
DJ Envy
Charges when hazing involves a great bodily injury or death. There is a felony component to hazing, and it carries up to five years.
Morgan
According to arrest warrants. McCray, Smith and Thurman led the hazing ritual that night at this warehouse leased by Smith's Father. Each had a specific number of pledges lined up to punch in the chest four times. Witnesses say McCray was the one who punched Caleb Wilson, causing him to collapse and become unresponsive. The group went to check on Caleb, made the decision to change him out of his clothes and bring him to the hospital 10 to 15 minutes after he collapsed. At no point did anyone call 911.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
DJ Envy
So sad.
Charlamagne Tha God
What's the question?
DJ Envy
800-585-1051. Do you think hazing should be removed from the pledging process, or is it tradition? That is the question.
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean, I have no idea because I'm not a Greek. But my only advice to the Greeks was, would be don't do things that could potentially kill people. Like, y'all. Not gangs jumping each other in. You're a fraternity. Think of something smarter to do.
DJ Envy
Yeah, I'm with you, but. But let me ask you a question. I'm sure they didn't think that punching somebody in the chest with a boxing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Glove would kill him, though. Oh, that's what happened.
DJ Envy
That's what they say.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
DJ Envy
Punched him in the chest with a boxing glove on.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, yeah. I didn't hit a boxing glove part in the news reports.
DJ Envy
Yeah. But I'm sure they didn't think that would kill him.
Charlamagne Tha God
But you're still not a gang. Like, I don't do. I don't see why you have to do something like physical violence. You know me, I don't know.
Louis V
But it was still four of them doing it. Like, all of them had to do it, though.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, so four people punched him in the chest?
Louis V
It was that. That's what the hazing was. It was gonna be all four. It was like, four of them. I don't even think he made it through all four of them doing it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. You know, you hear about Bloods and Crips jumping each other in. I ain't never heard that with no sorority. I just. Like, it shouldn't be physical violence. Like, y'all are a fraternity. Like, think of something smarter to do.
DJ Envy
Well, hazing isn't legally part of the process. That's not what it's supposed to do. It's actually illegal. Illegal to haze in any organization. It's still, quote, unquote done, but it is illegal to do.
Charlamagne Tha God
So they need to get rid of it, then.
DJ Envy
Well, they're supposed to. It's not supposed to exist, but I guess so many members have been hazed. It's like a rite of passage through to some of these fraternities.
Charlamagne Tha God
And sororities Yeah. I remember movies, like School Days. Remember School days when they blindfolded the. They were hazing the kids, and they blindfolded them and they made them put their hand in the toilet and they thought they were. Stuff like that when it was a banana. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like new. Like, that's different. That do stuff like that.
DJ Envy
Yeah, I mean, that does happen. They blindfold them. Then you ask the. The four founders, and you got to go through the. The. All that stuff. But sometimes.
Louis V
Or even like, the. Even the. Remember how they burn you, like, with the little thing like that ain't deadly. I mean, even something like that, like, you know, But I thought they get.
Charlamagne Tha God
The burn after the fact.
Louis V
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
After they get in.
DJ Envy
Right. Burn after. After they get in.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Louis V
Damn. So I. That's something else I got to do after.
DJ Envy
I'm already in if you want.
Charlamagne Tha God
Every.
DJ Envy
Every member doesn't have that.
Louis V
Like, every.
DJ Envy
You know, every member of sorority fraternity doesn't have that burden on it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why can't you just get a tattoo?
DJ Envy
You can.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm saying they're not cows, right?
Louis V
Like, damn.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Anonymous
Hello?
Jess Hilarious
Hey.
DJ Envy
Good morning, Sarah.
Louis V
Hello.
Anonymous
Good morning, Sarah.
DJ Envy
Now you are a member of the Divine Nine.
Anonymous
I am.
Charlamagne Tha God
What are you.
Anonymous
I don't want to say everything about this isn't. I'm not.
Charlamagne Tha God
I hear. I hear Zeta in your voice.
Jess Hilarious
Wow.
Anonymous
That. First of all, never, never, never.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now I know she a Delta. Aka. Probably aka Only akas get offended when you call them Zetas.
Anonymous
I'm not that either.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you're Delta.
DJ Envy
Okay, so the last one again, I'm not saying anything. All right, Sarah, talk to us. What's your thoughts?
Anonymous
Sarah, I will say this. First of all, I think that it is so unfortunate that that young man lost his life. I really feel bad for his family. That chapter, that organization, the Divine Nine, period. This is a tragedy that should never, ever have to happen. Second, I think that one pledging is not supposed to happen, period. It's not legal in any of the Divine Nines.
Charlamagne Tha God
You mean hazing.
Louis V
Pledging is not hazing. Oh, you mean hazing.
Anonymous
Pledging. No pledging or hazing period. Pledging, period. It's called hazing. But it's an intake process. And that's the actual name or the title that any of those organizations use officially, which is an intake process. None of those traditions require any form of hazing. Let's establish that. Okay. None of them. None of our traditions require any form of hazing.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you think you agree Hazing should be eliminated.
Anonymous
What I'm saying is that there is a difference. If these young organizations, the young chapters. There is. There is a desire for them to want to know because they hear the old stories from the older generations, like, oh, we did this and we did that. So they have this desire to want to do that, to feel like they were. They had the same experience. The problem is, is that the older Greeks, we are. We are removing ourselves from that connection because we don't want to get in trouble. We got jobs, we got kids. We don't want anything to come back on us. So they are removing themselves. And what happens when you have nobody leading the madness?
DJ Envy
Sarah, let me ask you.
Anonymous
There's a complete disaster, and that's the issue. There is a method to the madness, and there could be guidance. It could be done the right way, but it's not because they're removing themselves. And I understand nationally why you have this happen. Insurance companies are no longer insuring these divine non organizations. They had to make a choice. We understand that. Nobody wants to lose their letters, but those kids, they want that process. So now it's just blind leading the blind.
DJ Envy
Sarah, let me ask you a question. I was just thinking about it now. Usually when somebody pledges, they cross during about homecoming time, which is October, November. Why are they doing it so early? This is just March.
Anonymous
This is. So that's. That's an HBCU thing that they all have to cross on the same day. That's not a divine nine thing. So a lot of HBCUs have all of their probates all on the same day, which means all of them are going through their intake is at the same time.
Louis V
That.
Anonymous
But this particular instance, I'm sure that Southern was on the same thing because I think maybe A and T just had theirs like a week or two ago where they had a bunch of probates all at the same day. So I'm pretty sure that that was like an HBCU thing of when they have their days. All right, whatever the school establishes.
DJ Envy
And did you get?
Anonymous
I did. I'm good and made, but that doesn't mean that that's the way it should be now.
DJ Envy
Thank you. Mama.
Charlamagne Tha God
I didn't know pledging. I didn't know pledging illegal is the same thing as hazing. Yeah, either.
Jess Hilarious
Hello?
DJ Envy
Who's this?
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, yo.
Jess Hilarious
What?
Charlamagne Tha God
What up, Envy? This Will in Atlanta, man. What's happening?
DJ Envy
What's up, Will? Will, you sound like an Alpha man.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm definitely an Alpha man. You feel me? Hey, what's up? Charlamagne?
Louis V
What's up?
Charlamagne Tha God
But this is what I'm saying. Like it. Obviously it's an unfortunate situation. You feel me? What happened at Southern and we know that, you know, Hazen is heavily ingrained in the culture HBCUs, you feel me? I went to an HBCU myself. You, you know, you got hazing in the bed, you got hazing on the football team, basketball team, the choir, all that. You feel me? I. I do think this though. There are certain ways to. Everybody has a process. You feel me? There's certain ways to handle it. Ain't got to be physical. You ain't got to be beating on a dude. You could be, you know, have to watch the big brother car every day or something. You feel me? Or taking them a newspaper 3:00 in the morning. You ain't necessarily, you know, when I play it, yes, I plans and I play as hard. You feel me? It is what it is. It's what had to happen at that time. Times has changed, you feel me? And that's okay. Everybody don't have to be made once you. Once you cross them letters, you feel me? You're gonna be a respective of your. You're gonna be respected of your organization as a value member of that organization for me. So.
DJ Envy
You know what's funny? Well, it's funny that you said that. Like you said, you don't have to put hands on somebody or put somebody where they could possibly die. I remember when I was going through the process, we had to buy 100 turkeys, right? And each grocery store only had five turkeys. So we had to drive to every grocery store in the area to buy these turkeys to give them away for Thanksgiving. So that wasn't when somebody.
Charlamagne Tha God
You did all of that and still ain't make the team.
DJ Envy
Yeah, but I did all that. Didn't make no team.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is crazy by grade, but as I said, y'all in cotton knowledge, do something smarter, man.
Louis V
Yeah.
DJ Envy
800-585-1051. Do you think Hazen should be removed from the pledging process? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're talking about Caleb Wilson who was killed by going through the hazing process. And we're asking 800-5851-1051. Do you think Hazen should be removed from the pledging process or is it tradition now, Louis V. Who is the program director of our station in Atlanta.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. 96.1 to beat.
DJ Envy
He's also a member of the Divine Nine. Louis V. Come to the mic Y. Hey, Louis V. How you doing?
Charlamagne Tha God
Tell us how you got hazed. Louis Vu. I heard you got a tattoo on your left ass cheek, but you got it before you even got hit. You got. Oh, yeah, you wild. Tell us where they touched. You just said, wow.
Jess Hilarious
You.
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow. Listen, I'm not talking about my process, but hazing is definitely illegal. I will say that. And I feel like, you know, like everybody said, it's a very unfortunate situation that, you know, that Caleb passed. You know, I mean, it doesn't take that. The last guy that called in, like, he said, it doesn't. It doesn't take that. A lot of this stuff can be mental. A lot of. A lot of things can be done differently. And social media, for one is making it harder. Like when I was coming through, we didn't have social media, but I can't even imagine having it the way we had it back then. You know what I'm saying? Like, it is now going through a process like that. And again, I mean, just, I don't mind saying, yeah, I pledged, but it was definitely a, you know, it ain't something to brag about. I will say that I think people are charlamagne tha God here. And I want you to know from Curtis, 50 Cent Jackson and the executive producers of Power, the hit stars original series Raising Canaan is coming back. The new season of the family crime drama continues the origin story of fan favorite Kanan Stark, originally played by 50 Cent in the flagship series power, as he delves further into his evolution from a devoted son into the ruthless villain that fans have known and love from the jump. This is a transformative season for Kanan that you won't want to miss. Watch the new season of Raising Kanan only on Starz and the Starz app.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Supwithhate wearing it now like a badge of honor. And these young kids are trying to kind of get a better understanding or trying to feel like they need to be made in a certain way, but. But it don't take all of that, man.
Jess Hilarious
And that.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's that. What year did you come across? What do you call it? Crossing over or coming out? What do they call it?
DJ Envy
Let's cross. Not coming out. It's not coming out because you graduated.
Charlamagne Tha God
From South Carolina State University.
Louis V
That's why you in Atlanta.
Charlamagne Tha God
See how y'all got just. Y'all gotta see her face, man. She wild. Was you a sophomore or junior when you crossed out? I was a. I was a junior. Junior.
Jess Hilarious
Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. And Louis V. Is a Capper. He wanted to be a Cube, but he only eat enough pork.
DJ Envy
Crazy.
Louis V
This guy's crazy.
DJ Envy
You know, Charlemagne tried to start his own fraternity. Ass for ass. But I don't never know no C.C.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, no, no. But see, and I know. I know Charlemagne know about Chuck F. Chuck. So Charlemagne, you know, you already know Chuck F. Chuck843.
DJ Envy
Hello, who's this?
Charlamagne Tha God
J said ask for.
Louis V
For the gigs.
DJ Envy
Hey, what's your name?
Anonymous
Hi, I'm going by Anonymous, but my fake name will be Mary.
DJ Envy
All right, Mary, Fake name Mary.
Louis V
Mary's AKA Mary is hilarious.
DJ Envy
Now, Mary, what's up? Talk to us. We're talking Hazen, should it be removed?
Anonymous
So I do not believe that Hazen should be removed. I do think that there has to be a process where those that have been in the organization need to oversee. So normally there's a dean and normally there is an elder. Someone that is, you know, that's been seasoned, that is in, should oversee the process. So therefore, safety and proper protocols are followed. So I do believe in a hazing process. I don't believe that it should just be unmonitored because that is when things happen. That is when, you know, unfortunately, deaths occur because there are no parameters around what is being done. So I think that there has to be some type of guidance with the younger, you know, younger individuals that are. That are actually doing the hazing. I'm 25 years in, so I've been in the organization for a very long time. In 2000, I'm an ace. But I do believe that if it is monitored, then hazing is okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
But listen, if hazing is illegal, then there's no right way to do the wrong thing. So you're literally saying you want these kids to have guidance to do the wrong thing.
Anonymous
You can't just go in and just skate through the process and not follow traditional.
Louis V
You're saying it has to be something.
Anonymous
There has to be something. You know, you gotta cross those burning sands, right? If everybody could do it, then anybody could do it. And it is an elite group. It should be an elite group where just anybody can't get through, right? So there has to be something. I believe in the tradition I pledged, right, it was monitored. But I think when it is not being monitored, that is the problem. That's when anything is occurring.
DJ Envy
Mary, did they put paddle to ass? Did they put a paddle to your ass?
Anonymous
I'm a part of the Century Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. What that mean? What's the Century Club?
DJ Envy
Paddle to your ass. That's what they Paddle you, they give you. They hit you on your ass with a paddle. You want.
Charlamagne Tha God
So the 100 licks, that's why you call it the Century Club.
Louis V
That would be smart.
Anonymous
There you go.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, got you.
DJ Envy
Okay.
Louis V
Oh, so she can't confirm or deny.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, exactly. All right, I ain't gonna front. Is this illegal? But you think about it, Jeff. If you gotta do all this, man, you might as well decide whether you want to be a Greek, a Blood, or a Crip pirate.
Louis V
I would just go.
DJ Envy
You know what I mean?
Louis V
Go over there.
DJ Envy
Damn.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, I gotta get jumped in. I want to know who. What's better? I don't need one better in the future.
Louis V
I only want to go ahead. No more now. Like, damn.
DJ Envy
He said the Century Club. Jesus.
Charlamagne Tha God
A hundred licks.
Louis V
Jesus.
DJ Envy
All right, well, what's the moral of the story?
Charlamagne Tha God
What's the moral of the story? Louis V. Stop pledging at this point. I mean, again, it doesn't really get you nowhere. And you see where it got us right now.
Louis V
And then it changed.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. And this doesn't just affect Omega Psi Phi. This affects all of the Divine Nine. Like, everybody. Because again, you got to look at it from that perspective, like, this could have happened to anybody. And unfortunately, it just happened to him. So. And I think they suspended all the Greek organizations. It paused everything for that entire campus. So, again, yeah, so it's. It's one of them things where this trickles down to everybody.
DJ Envy
All right, now we got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Louis V
Lauren becoming a straight thing.
DJ Envy
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets the details.
Just Hilarious
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on it.
Jess Hilarious
The latest with Lauren Laroque.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
Just Hilarious
Okay, guys. So this morning, Good Morning America released audio for the first time ever, the woman who accused Jay Z and Diddy of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old after the VMAs of her on tape saying that Jay Z had nothing to do with this. Let's take a listen.
Charlamagne Tha God
But Jay Z was. You're saying he was definitely there, but.
Jess Hilarious
He had no part in it, or he was just.
Charlamagne Tha God
He was there.
Anonymous
He was just there.
Morgan
But he didn't have anything to do with the.
Charlamagne Tha God
Any sexual acts towards you?
Morgan
It was strictly.
Just Hilarious
He was the one that kind of.
Jess Hilarious
Pushed me towards going Forward with him.
Just Hilarious
With Jay Z. Busby did? Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Do you know why? No.
DJ Envy
Who was it interviewing? Her.
Just Hilarious
So interviewing her, you hear two. Two investigators that are on Jay's side, that private investigator, and the question that they are asking her is, was Jay Z even there? Because she allegedly, you know, this happened at a party, blah, blah. And then they have the conversation about how did this even come about then? And she's saying that Tony Busby pushed her, allegedly, to bring Jay Z into it. So then, of course, once Good Morning America and these outlets received this audio, they reach out to Busby for a response. And Busby counters with audio of. Of this woman talking to him. Let's take a listen to that.
Charlamagne Tha God
They say that. That they have you on tape denying.
DJ Envy
That Jay Z assaulted you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is that true? No.
Anonymous
No, they don't.
Charlamagne Tha God
I've never said that. Okay. They also say that you told them, and they have it on tape that. That I, Tony Busby, told you to.
Jess Hilarious
To, like, came up with this plan and told you to say that Jay.
Charlamagne Tha God
Z assaulted you so you would get more money. No, we just heard the tape, though. You just heard the tape of her saying these things.
Just Hilarious
And then there's another tape of her saying it's I. And let's just say, gonna say that.
DJ Envy
She was coerced to say that.
Just Hilarious
That. I think that's what he's getting at.
Charlamagne Tha God
But this woman, first of all, this woman's not credible at this point.
Just Hilarious
That. But, I mean, this is dropped anyway with prejudice. So that means that this case can't be brought back against Diddy or Jay Z. But the reason why R. Kelly. R. Kelly. The reason why Jay Z's attorney says that they put this out is because they still wanted. The more they wanted this. Like, people need to see everything. Spike football. Yeah. Because this was, you know, put on his name or whatever. So people need to see everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
Tony Busby should receive heavy consequences. That young ladies should receive heavy consequences. This. This does nothing but make it harder for real victims, and it makes it harder for successful men, because you can always be the target of a BS lawsuit like this one. And where is the media? How come the truth and the facts are never as loud as the actual accusation? When it's an accusation, everyone runs to amplify it. When it's the truth, everybody quiet.
DJ Envy
Well, what do you always say? Right? Nobody cares about the truth. And the sad thing about it is you could tell it's been a lie from the beginning.
Charlamagne Tha God
From the very.
DJ Envy
From the beginning. She. She didn't have her story Straight. Her dad does remember driving four or five hours. Like, it sounds crazy. So the fact that we're still having these conversations. But it hurts home. I'm sure it hurts home. Where people have, I'm sure, been businesses. It affected his business. It affected. When he was taking his daughter to see the Mufasa. It just affected him as his family. It's effed up.
Charlamagne Tha God
I just said, if you ran to YouTube, if you ran to a podcast to have an opinion about the accusations, have that same energy for the truth.
Just Hilarious
Yeah. Jay Z, he came out and said he lost millions, millions of dollars, 20 million. That all this was happening. That's why he's filing suit against.
DJ Envy
As he should.
Just Hilarious
You know what I mean? So, yeah. Now, lastly, real quick, this is a crazy segue. The two have nothing to do with each other. Let me just put that out there. There is an audio floating around right now of R. Kelly and he did the residuals challenge because he is saying that people owe him some bread. And he wanted to put that.
Louis V
It was amazing.
Charlamagne Tha God
He said, who getting paid for my crime, for his.
Louis V
From his grind, my grind. All of that supposed to be mine. Where's my checks? Where's my money at? Like, real residuals. Like, what's up? Where's my bread at?
Just Hilarious
Exactly.
Louis V
I'm doing bad in here.
Just Hilarious
30 plus years in the game and whatever, wherever the money is going right now, he don't even got money on his commissary.
Louis V
I will say now, that is a phone. I don't know what Tori recorded on, but that is a phone that R. Kelly recorded on, period. And that was no auto tune, no nothing. That man's still in there singing.
Just Hilarious
There was an audio, two of them singing on a podcast. And the ladies got some flack for it. But he was saying happy birthday. And people were just, you know, no comment on how he good, goody sounds. But people, of course, were upset about that. But.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, nobody, nobody ever said R. Kelly wasn't talented. I mean, that was. Was never stated through everything, through all the accusations and convictions, that nobody ever said R. Kelly wasn't talented.
Louis V
All right, but. All right, real quick, random observation. I'm at Sha house yesterday, right? Yo, and yo, this man is living like Neo. He got four white big booties in there. Like, one is in the kitchen cleaning, the other one is in the basement. The shackle O'Neill. Yeah. I mean, I don't know another shack, right?
Just Hilarious
But yes, he'd be down in Atlanta.
Charlamagne Tha God
Guess what?
Louis V
Yeah, he lit. He got a house in Atlanta.
Charlamagne Tha God
He had Four. He got four wives.
Louis V
Four white women.
DJ Envy
The. Shaq want you to say this.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. No. You'll never get invited.
Louis V
I don't give a hot. God damn.
Charlamagne Tha God
What happened at the house yesterday that's gonna. That makes you never want to go back there again that you told the story?
Louis V
No, no, no, no, no. I. I don't. I don't know. I don't know if. If I'm gonna go back or not. But, man, when I seen two of them was. Two of them was. Was bad. The other ones, they was. They were. They were getting there, but it. I couldn't believe. No, I mean, like, you know, the other two of them was, like, beautiful bad. I'm like, okay, all right, Shaq, I see what you're doing. Then I've seen the other two come out the back, and I was like, oh, all right. They getting there. They need a little bit more work.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why you. Dr. Uma and report this?
Louis V
Because Dr. Umar got something of his own that he going on right now. He got. He going through right now. So I chose to leave that brother alone, but, man, I could not believe it.
Just Hilarious
Did they cook for you?
Louis V
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. His shack. I mean, his chef definitely whipped up something for me, but. No, no, not, though. Not the women. No, they were cleaning. One was massaging him. She ain't care about his feet. Like she was massaging them. Then he got the big, big bed. The bed looked like an aquarium. Like a big, big. It's crazy.
Charlamagne Tha God
We have to send snow bunny buses to shack house.
Louis V
Serious. Now, I might not be. Now that you said that, I might not be invited back.
DJ Envy
I don't give a damn.
Louis V
I cannot.
Charlamagne Tha God
I want to know what you saw there yesterday that just made you say, you know what? I have to tell everybody this because.
Louis V
I. I don't know. I just was thinking. I'm like, yo, Because Neo with Neo keep coming up, you know, he got the four girls. The four. Because he's not married to them. Not four wives, but he got the polygamy thing going on. And I'm like. Like, Shaq really was trying to do that. That's why I compared him like, yo, you living like Neo, but. But your women are white and. And with big booties, and you ain't get a video. No, I ain't getting. He wouldn't let me record. He not about to let me record nothing. I said, don't worry about it. I'm gonna talk about it. I ain't gonna. I ain't gotta record it.
Just Hilarious
I can't wait to wherever you go tonight.
Louis V
News is real.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you told him you was gonna talk about it?
Louis V
No, I ain't talking. Oh, well, he'll be all right. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
Louis V
Why would you invite Jess with the mess, of all people to your house? That's on you.
Jess Hilarious
And then.
Louis V
Yeah, you supposed to hide them. You ain't supposed to have me just walk into them.
DJ Envy
All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren and Jess and the random thought People's Choice mix up next. Let's go. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Jess Hilarious
Wake up, wake up.
Charlamagne Tha God
You're locked into the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a salute David Banner for joining us this morning, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
The good brother David Bannon. Make sure you check David Banner out. David Banner is gonna be in Carl Webbers. He's right. Now Carl Weber's the family business. New Orleans is available on BET Plus. Plus what else? Banner on Banners on fight night on. On Peacock on NBC. And you know, man, listen, I. I. Not bad. Is not just a great actor, man. He makes phenomenal music. You really should go check out the God Box, part one and part two. You know, if you. If you like great down south lyricism. Okay? David Banner gives you that all the time. So salute to Banner.
DJ Envy
That's right. Salute to David Banner. You can see the full interview on our YouTube page and when we come back.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, and also, you got shows tonight, right?
Louis V
Yep. I'm in Atlanta. Shout out to 96.1 to beat. I'm down here broadcasting live from near. But I got shows at Atlanta Comedy Theater. We got two shows tonight. We got two shows tomorrow. I will be doing meet and greet. Guys. Get your tickets at show click or jessalariusofficial.com Me and Desi Alexander will be hitting stage tonight.
DJ Envy
All right, when we come back, we got the positive notice of Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. All right, now it's time to get up out of here. Charlamagne, you got a positive note.
Charlamagne Tha God
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – Episode: FULL SHOW: Wendy Williams' Guardian Slams Media For "Misleading Truths", Jay-Z's Sexual Assault Accuser Admits Hov Didn't Assault Her, R.Kelly Drops Songs From Prison + More
Release Date: March 12, 2025
The episode kicks off with hosts DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God engaging in their trademark banter, setting a lively and dynamic tone for the show. Early interactions include discussions about mid-week ("hump day") and personal updates from the hosts, establishing a relatable and conversational atmosphere.
Timestamp Highlights:
[06:00] DJ Envy: "Ex New York Giant quarterback is signing with the Indianapolis Colts. He's signing a one year deal, $14 million contract, which is insane."
[07:00] Charlamagne Tha God: Discusses the House passing a six-month funding bill to prevent a government shutdown, highlighting bipartisan support with "all but one Republican" backing the measure.
[07:14] Morgan: "The House Speaker Mike Johnson... people need to do the responsible thing."
[08:34] Charlamagne Tha God: "The biggest win is not the tariff. That's a big win. That's a lot of money. But the biggest win is if they move into our country and produce jobs."
[08:50] Morgan: Reports on President Trump's remarks supporting tariffs and the subsequent impact on the stock market, noting significant losses: "The Dow Jones Industrial average lost as much as 700 points on Tuesday before ending the trading day down 478 points."
[09:05] DJ Envy: Expresses confusion over repeated government shutdowns: "I don't understand why they can't find the financing for these operations. This happens every other year or every year and it seems like we never find the funding."
Summary:
The hosts delve into the pressing issue of a potential government shutdown, emphasizing the narrowly passed six-month funding bill in the House. House Speaker Mike Johnson is quoted urging Republicans to act responsibly to avoid shutting down the government. The discussion extends to President Trump's endorsement of tariffs, which he claims positively impact the economy. However, the hosts note the immediate negative reaction from the stock market, underscoring the volatility and uncertainty surrounding these fiscal policies.
Timestamp Highlights:
[19:33] Jess Hilarious: "Wendy Williams, guardian's attorney. Sabrina's attorneys came out and said Wendy has been lying in the media."
[19:41] Charlamagne Tha God: "There's three sides to a story in this case. It's Wendy's side, it's the guardian side, and the truth. And the truth will be revealed at some point."
[25:19] Charlamagne Tha God: Raises critical questions about Sabrina Morrissey's handling of Wendy Williams' guardianship, including restrictions on Wendy's mobility and access to her family.
[25:56] Charlamagne Tha God: "But she's clearly not [incapacitated]. So why is as her guardian letting that story be out there?"
[26:04] DJ Envy: "Wendy's asking, hey, I'm not. Let me test. Let me go to a doctor. Let me prove it."
Summary:
The episode highlights a significant controversy involving Wendy Williams' guardianship. Sabrina Morrissey's attorney, Andrew Selley Jr., asserts that the media has disseminated "a lot of inaccuracies and misleading untruths" regarding Wendy's condition and living situation. The hosts critically examine these claims, questioning the extent of Sabrina's authority and the actual state of Wendy's health and autonomy. Charlamagne presses Sabrina on specific points, such as Wendy's ability to access her family and leave her assisted living facility, suggesting discrepancies between the legal documents and Wendy's personal accounts. The conversation underscores the tension between legal guardianship and personal agency, calling for a closer look at the truth behind Wendy Williams' public portrayal.
Timestamp Highlights:
[30:51] Morgan: Covers the incident where House Committee Chairman Keith Self misgendered Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
[31:19] Charlamagne Tha God: "He's following the law. He's following the law."
[31:29] Louis V: "Look."
[32:36] Charlamagne Tha God: Emphasizes the importance of respecting elected officials' identities over adhering strictly to procedural norms.
Summary:
A heated exchange unfolds on the House floor when Keith Self refers to Sarah McBride as "Mr. McBride" during a committee hearing. Governor McBride corrects him by stating, "Thank you, Madam Chair," asserting her correct gender identity. The interaction escalates as Massachusetts Representative Bill Keating intervenes, demanding a repeat of the introduction, highlighting the inappropriateness of misgendering. Charlamagne Tha God criticizes the incident, stressing the need to focus on substantive issues rather than engaging in petty identity-based disputes. The discussion reflects broader societal debates on gender identity, respect, and the responsibilities of public officials to uphold dignity and correctness in their language.
Timestamp Highlights:
[85:25] Charlamagne Tha God: Addresses the tragic death of Caleb Wilson, a Southern University student who died during a hazing ritual.
[84:07] Charlamagne Tha God: "White supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society."
[86:00] Louis V: Discusses personal experiences with hazing and its dangerous repercussions.
[87:00] Jess Hilarious: "We're gonna pursue it legally. The case is over now."
Summary:
The hosts mourn the passing of Caleb Wilson, a pledging student at Southern University who died during a fraternity hazing ritual. Charlamagne Tha God and Louis V engage in a candid conversation about the prevalence and dangers of hazing within Greek life, emphasizing that such practices are not only illegal but also have fatal consequences. The discussion critiques the cultural acceptance of hazing as a "rite of passage," calling for immediate reforms to eliminate these harmful traditions. Jess Hilarious references legal actions taken against those responsible, highlighting the urgent need for accountability and systemic change within fraternities to prevent future tragedies.
Timestamp Highlights:
[38:20] Jess Hilarious: Introduces David Banner as a guest, highlighting his multifaceted career as an activist, actor, and musician.
[41:03] Jess Hilarious: Discusses his admiration for black women and the challenges faced by black artists in the music industry.
[50:24] Charlamagne Tha God: Engages with David Banner about mental health, revealing Banner's personal struggles with anxiety and his journey towards seeking therapy.
[54:00] Charlamagne Tha God: "He makes phenomenal music. You really should go check out the God Box, part one and part two."
Summary:
David Banner joins the show to discuss his expansive career and personal growth. He opens up about his dedication to the black community, addressing societal issues, and the hurdles faced by black artists in the evolving music industry, particularly critiquing the shift towards streaming and its financial implications. Banner candidly shares his battle with anxiety, emphasizing the importance of mental health and the role of therapy in his life. He advocates for transparency and vulnerability among black men, aiming to dismantle stigmas surrounding mental health. Additionally, Banner promotes his upcoming projects, including his movie company, Banner Vision, and discusses his vision for empowering black narratives in media.
Topics Covered:
Jay-Z's Sexual Assault Accuser Admits No Assault: The hosts discuss recent revelations that Jay-Z's accuser has shifted her stance, admitting that Jay-Z did not assault her. They analyze the implications for both Jay-Z and the broader conversation around sexual assault accusations in the entertainment industry.
R.Kelly Drops Songs From Prison: The episode touches on R. Kelly's decision to remove his music from streaming services while incarcerated, exploring the impact on his legacy and the music industry's response to ongoing controversies.
Daylight Savings Time Effects: Morgan shares insights on the health impacts of transitioning into daylight savings time, including increased hospital visits due to heart attacks, attributing it to disrupted sleep patterns.
Hazing Discussions: Following the tragedy at Southern University, the hosts reiterate the dangers of hazing, with callers and guests sharing personal anecdotes and opinions on whether hazing should be abolished or reformed within fraternities and sororities.
Airline and Travel Updates: The show briefly mentions changes in airline policies, such as Southwest Airlines introducing baggage fees and altering seating arrangements, prompting discussions on consumer reactions and potential shifts to other airlines.
Summary:
Beyond the primary topics, the hosts provide comprehensive coverage of various news stories impacting their audience. They delve into high-profile cases involving celebrities like Jay-Z and R. Kelly, examining how legal battles and personal admissions influence public perception and the accountability of influential figures. Health and societal issues, such as the effects of daylight savings time and the enduring problem of hazing in Greek life, are discussed with input from listeners who share their experiences and perspectives. Additionally, the hosts touch upon changes in the travel industry, reflecting on consumer preferences and the future of airline services amidst evolving policies.
As the episode wraps up, the hosts reiterate key takeaways from their discussions, emphasizing the importance of addressing societal issues with honesty and integrity. They acknowledge the ongoing challenges in media representation, the need for systemic reforms in fraternity culture, and the critical role of mental health awareness within the black community. Promotional segments highlight upcoming shows, books, and guest appearances, maintaining the show's engaging and informative vibe.
Notable Quotes:
Charlamagne Tha God: "A good sign of healing is when you recognize dysfunctional behavior and realize it's not your job to fix it, explain it or even entertain it."
DJ Envy: "Nobody cares about the truth."
Jess Hilarious: "I have to be a leader and take care of my people, but I can’t let that stop me from being happy."
Government Funding: Bipartisan efforts are underway to prevent a government shutdown, but political disagreements persist.
Wendy Williams' Guardianship: Allegations of media misrepresentation and restrictive guardianship practices raise concerns about personal autonomy and legal oversight.
Transgender Representation: The misgendering incident with Sarah McBride highlights ongoing struggles for respect and recognition of transgender individuals in political spaces.
Hazing Dangers: The fatal hazing incident at Southern University underscores the urgent need for fraternity reform and the elimination of harmful initiation practices.
Mental Health Advocacy: David Banner's openness about his anxiety emphasizes the importance of mental health support and breaking stigmas within the black community.
Entertainment Industry Scrutiny: High-profile cases involving Jay-Z and R. Kelly reflect broader issues of accountability and the consequences of personal actions on public personas.
This episode of The Breakfast Club offers a deep dive into critical societal issues, blending news analysis with personal stories and expert insights. The hosts' dynamic interactions and thoughtful discussions provide listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the topics, encouraging informed conversations and community engagement.