FULL SHOW: Ye Live Streams His ‘Bully’ Album; Fans Saying ‘Old Kanye Is Back’ + Fetty Wap & Tim Shriver Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club (March 27, 2026)

Episode: Ye Live Streams His ‘Bully’ Album; Fans Saying ‘Old Kanye Is Back’ + Fetty Wap & Tim Shriver Interview
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God | Network: The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Breakfast Club features a packed show centered around new music, culture, and insightful interviews. The standout segments include reactions to Kanye West’s surprise live stream of his 'Bully' album (with fans saying the “old Kanye” is back), a vibrant interview with Fetty Wap marking his personal and creative comeback with a new album, insights into America’s “dignity crisis” with Tim Shriver, and energetic banter about recent music battles and performances. Throughout, the hosts keep the conversation lively, raw, and culturally plugged in.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ Album and the “Old Kanye” Hype

[70:53, 71:09, 71:44, 72:46]

• Album Drop & Live Stream:

  • Kanye’s long-awaited ‘Bully’ didn’t hit streaming immediately, but was played in full via a surprise YouTube stream after midnight.
  • Lauren LaRosa: “I went to look this morning...I didn’t see a new 2026 Bully...but on Twitter, there’s all these songs out from Kanye West.”

• Fan Reaction – “Old Kanye is Back”:

  • Social media erupts with claims that “the old Kanye is back.”
  • Angela Yee: “I’m excited for him.”
  • Charlamagne: “Kanye has always been so great musically...you always gonna check for Kanye’s music.”

• Show Panel Takes:

  • Skepticism about Kanye’s ongoing antics overshadowing the music release, with some struggle to keep up with actual drop dates.
  • Envy: “He keeps pump faking…If he stopped pump faking…there’d be a frenzy.”
  • Charlamagne: “His antics overshadow everything—even music. Like I didn’t even know he’d put out [an album last night].”
  • Hosts reflect on how Ye’s vulnerability is often overshadowed by his controversies.

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2. Fetty Wap’s Comeback – Interview & Reflection

[40:00–62:33]

• Creative Rebirth & New Album:

  • Fetty discusses his comeback album ‘Xavier’ and his growth:
    • “Xavier is like my alter ego...just a more mature version of myself...the one that sat back and took his time.” (Fetty Wap, 40:25)
    • His time incarcerated led to deep self-reflection, humility, and a renewed focus on family and artistry.

• Cutting People Off & Maintaining Boundaries:

  • “When I first came home, it wasn’t a space to cut you off…When I was calling, nobody was answering. Now everybody’s trying to pop back up.” (41:43)

• Artistic Methods & Self-Discovery:

  • Fetty shares how he gauges a song’s vibe: “I tried to have people I don’t know there, and I just read the energy in the room...If people on their phones, scratch it. If they start vibing, we keep it.” (44:44)

• Imposter Syndrome and Fan Joy:

  • Fetty is humbled by his continued fan impact across generations.
    • “It’s a little bit unbelievable...kids aren’t in high school or college yet, how do they know me?” (53:57)

• Fatherhood, Life Changes & Mental Health:

  • Discusses fatherhood, navigating co-parenting, and keeping kids out of prison visits: “...I don’t want to keep having this conversation every week...” (60:29)
  • On personal growth: “Once I remove pride out of the topic, I started living my life.” (51:04)

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3. Tank vs. Tyrese: Versus Recap and Ray J’s Take

[12:44, 17:46, 25:42, 67:54]

• Versus Battle Breakdown:

  • Tank and Tyrese’s LA showdown divides the team; Tank’s showmanship is praised, especially for on-the-spot comedy (about Tyrese’s turtleneck in the LA heat).
  • Lauren: “He had the turtleneck through two outfits.”
  • Envy: “I would say...Tyrese has more songs you know, but Tank was more of the showman...more entertaining...”

• Ray J’s Unfiltered Verdict:

  • “I ain’t seen the whole verses, but I know Tyrese was trash...I could just feel the turtleneck and the anxiety in his voice.” (Ray J, 67:54)

• Hosts’ Takeaways:

  • Debate on whether performing songs written for others should count in Versus format.
  • Lauren, Envy, and Yee disagree on who took the win.

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4. Cardi B at Madison Square Garden & Live Shows

[03:25, 19:27, 20:11, 20:35]

• Production Praise:

  • Enthusiastic reviews of Cardi B’s sold-out MSG show.
  • Charlamagne: “I was very impressed by the production. Choreography, outfit changes, mad pyro...She put on a phenomenal show.” (05:00)
  • Cardi’s onstage charisma and connection to her strip club roots noted as essential to her performance.

• Cardi as a Business Blueprint:

  • Announcement of a new Howard University college course focused on Cardi B’s business/marketing strategies.
  • Mimi Brown: “The class will study business, marketing, branding, cultural impact behind her album rollout.”

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5. TSA/Government Shutdown & Viral Tyler Perry Moment

[08:20, 10:01, 10:43, 11:59]

• Airport Crisis Update:

  • Ongoing TSA pay issues due to a partial government shutdown; some officers working unpaid, ICE agents considered “in the way.”
  • Firsthand listener (Shayla from Houston): “We gotta have multiple streams of income...ICE is here...they can’t do anything.”

• Tyler Perry’s Viral Attempt to Help:

  • Perry tried to hand out cash at Atlanta airport but was turned away: “Federal workers are not allowed to accept cash on the job.”
  • Angela Yee: “All of them need to start…GoFundMes.”

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6. Dignity in America: Tim Shriver Interview

[85:54–104:00]

• U.S. Dignity Barometer:

  • Tim Shriver presents survey: 94% of Americans say everyone deserves dignity, yet most say we aren’t living up to it.
  • Tim: “Most of us can’t solve the war in Iran, but we can solve the war at home.”

• Forgiveness, Hate, and National Healing:

  • Honest discussion on forgiveness—DJ Envy doubts he could forgive a murderer of a loved one; Shriver says sometimes forgiveness is a self-healing act.
  • Charlamagne: “I couldn’t believe I had gotten to the point where I hated someone...I became what I didn’t like.”

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7. Call-Ins (“Get It Off Your Chest” & People’s Donkey)

[12:36, 17:03, 76:25–85:23]

• TSA worker Shayla: Urges multiple income streams and promotes her Black-owned jewelry brand.
• Listeners weigh in on Versus, TSA, Charlamagne’s “Woman of the Day” segment, and vent frustrations (including someone giving “Donkey of the Day” to the phone screener Eddie).
• Notable moment: A vulnerable Navy veteran caller (81:00) shares about mental health struggles and gets encouragement.

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8. Other Memorable Moments, Laughs & Quotes

• On Cardi B and Showmanship:
  • “You think you supposed to make more than Cardi B in the strip club?” – Charlamagne (06:41)
• Fetty Wap on Resurgence:
  • “When I came home...everyone’s like, we’ve been waiting for you...I’m like, thanks.” (47:16)
• Charlamagne on Maturity:
  • “At 47, The Locks make me want to do more pull-ups. They used to make me want to stab you with something sharp.” (107:04)
• **Hosts’ banter about Tyrese’s turtleneck and Cardi B’s twerk contests bring comic relief throughout.

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Timestamps for Main Segments

• 03:15–07:38: Cardi B concert recap, production & showmanship
• 08:20–12:11: TSA/govt shutdown, Tyler Perry at the airport
• 12:36–18:03: Listener call-ins: Versus, TSA insight, self-promotion
• 19:27–25:47: Cardi show recap continues; Versus battle breakdown
• 40:00–62:33: Fetty Wap: Comeback, creative rebirth & interview highlights
• 67:54–69:21: Ray J on Versus; Tyrese vs. Tank banter
• 70:53–74:44: Kanye ‘Bully’ album reactions, iHeart Awards, Kendrick/Taylor Swift wins
• 85:54–104:00: Tim Shriver interview, America’s dignity crisis, forgiveness and hate
• 104:41–108:07: “Pass the Ox” – new music drops (Flippity, Tone Stith, The Lox)
• 76:25–85:23: People’s Donkey call-ins

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Episode Tone & Style

• Raw, unfiltered, energetic, and community-focused.
  The hosts blend serious social commentary with cultural analysis, music critique, and their signature “Breakfast Club” comedic chemistry.

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Notable Quotes (with Speaker & Timestamp)

• Charlamagne on the Struggle to Top Cardi’s Stage Presence:
  • “I can see how she got more money than you in the strip club.” (06:35)
• Fetty Wap on Growth:
  • “Once I removed pride out of the topic, I started living my life.” (51:04)
• Tim Shriver on Dignity:
  • “Most of us can’t solve the war in Iran, but we can solve the war at home.” (89:01)
• Ray J on Tyrese:
  • “Tyrese was trash. I could just feel the turtleneck and the anxiety in his voice…” (67:54)
• Charlamagne on Hate:
  • “I became what I didn’t like.” (96:09)
• Fetty Wap on His Comeback:
  • “I just feel happy and humble, like, appreciative to everybody that’s been showing me love.” (49:09)

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Quick Hits

• Music & Culture: Cardi B’s MSG takeover and Kanye’s unpredictable album drop dominate.
• Social Issues: The TSA crisis, government shutdown impacts, and a rare celebrity charity moment with Tyler Perry.
• Inspiration & Reflection: Fetty Wap’s personal growth story and Tim Shriver’s call to restore dignity in America.

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For music heads, hip-hop fans, and anyone tuning in for the culture, this episode provides a rich mix of entertainment, real-life lessons, and spirited debate—classic Breakfast Club energy at its best.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Good morning, USA.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Jess.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hilarious.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call peace to the planet is Friday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. How y' all feeling? Y' all tired?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not.

[Angela Yee]

I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Cuz you shaking ass all night? The Cardi B.

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely. Definitely. I had a little bit of drinks, but you know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, a lot of it I did so good.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, right. Y' all ain't even have a lot of bit of drinks in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watch you.

[DJ Envy]

So what happened to your detox? What happened to all that stuff that you were doing with your detox?

[Angela Yee]

What are you talking about?

[DJ Envy]

No, detox over.

[Angela Yee]

It was. No, I did it for 15 days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You and Queen of Fool. You need to cut it.

[DJ Envy]

So you smoked too, last night?

[Angela Yee]

No, I didn't smoke. I had an edible dog.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Doesn't matter though. Had fun. But to go see Cardi, it was lit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Cardi. It's all about doing your best. You did your best.

[Angela Yee]

I did three days of a detoxing after Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Three days of a 21 day detox was all you could do.

[Angela Yee]

That's not all I could do. That's just all I did do. Don't play with me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She did two.

[DJ Envy]

She only did two days. But how was Cardi?

[Angela Yee]

Did not do two days. Yes, she did great. I wanted to see Lil Ken, but we got a boogie. A boogie up and party.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fontaine party.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Yes. Loved it, though. It was great. I don't know who the DJ was in the beginning of the show, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Spanking.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, spanking. Oh, yeah. I know. He did not let us sing none of the songs, honey. He was switching songs every 8 to 10 seconds. I guess he wanted us to keep up with TikTok. I don't know what was going on. I'm telling you, once everybody thought their favorite part was coming up, it was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It.

[Angela Yee]

It was something else. Another intro?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it was Flipstar and Spinking opened up dj.

[Angela Yee]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She did put on a phenomenal show, though.

[Fetty Wap]

I was. I was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was very impressed by the production. You know, that's what I'm paying attention to when I'm at the show. I'm paying attention to production, choreography, outfit changes. Mad pirate. Very aggressive. It was very aggressive. It's very aggressive. A lot of pyro.

[DJ Envy]

I love that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I love that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

She.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She. She put on a fantastic show.

[Angela Yee]

And she's funny. Like, she's entertaining, like, in between her songs. It's like, yo, she talks to us. It's like she's doing a set, but she literally just being herself. It's so funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's interesting to watch because, you know, we've been watching Cardi B for so long. Like, you know, from the days of her being on Instagram and on Instagram, you can see how big her personality was. And so, you know, if you had any type of vision, you knew she was going to be a star in some way, shape or form. Just didn't know whether it was going to be tv, you know, movies. But then she decided to do music. So when you see her on stage in her element, it's like, that is where that light, that type of light is supposed to be on that type of stage.

[Fetty Wap]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Even before all that, before, when she was in the. In the. In the club, I remember, like, when she would come to the club, it was all about her. It didn't matter who was hosting that night. It didn't matter who was DJing. It was all about body, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I never saw her in the script.

[DJ Envy]

I have, but I DJ when she was. She was there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But just the fact you remember that ass back then is what you saying.

[DJ Envy]

No, I remember she said that's what you said. Technically.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Technically, that's what you just said.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, I remember she used to get paid more than me. And I was like, how?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I swear.

[DJ Envy]

And then you would see that people would come to see her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, how she on stage naked. You should have popped some ass.

[DJ Envy]

Maybe next time. All right. But she would grab the mic on the stage and be like dancing and talking. So you always go too far. Let's get the show cracking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm telling you. I can see how she Got more money than you in the strip club. What are you talking about?

[DJ Envy]

Get it? No, I'm not talking to you guys no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think you supposed to make more than Cardi B in the Script Club? Envy just said he should have made more than Cardi B back in the day. In the strip club.

[Angela Yee]

Was you DJ naked or something?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

All right, but I was the premier DJ back then. But yeah. Nah, she was. People came to see us. She would grab the mic, she put on a show. And this is not just a dance show. She would put on kind of like she did. She's talking to people in between sets and making people feel.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, that's what she's saying in that Wiley. All that.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Envy said, when I see you stand by Cardi B, I believe you see two babies and you wanted to pop ass with Cardi B. Oh, my

[DJ Envy]

goodness, man, you a wild boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's freaking freaking Friday.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. Fetty Wa will be joining us today. Fetty Wap has a new album, Xavier, out today. We're gonna kick it with Fetty Wap. And let's get the show cracking. We got some Cardi B to start the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Play some big body, man.

[DJ Envy]

Bodega baddies. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, she had a dope Spanish set.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, she did. It was lit. Felt like it was a Super Bowl a little bit.

[Fetty Wap]

It did it.

[Angela Yee]

It did.

[DJ Envy]

Felt like uptown.

[Angela Yee]

Yes. Them Dominicans was in there going crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Dominican, Dominican, Dominican.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you doing? You be disrespecting your own people.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

prostate exam and I. Prostate exams? Yeah, we were talking about prostate exams. And I was saying how I found out about how you can get your prostate checked through blood.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the doctor was telling me that while he was about to do the.

[Fetty Wap]

Finger.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Finger to the rector, Right? Yes.

[Fetty Wap]

Did you tell him?

[DJ Envy]

Hold up.

[Angela Yee]

Wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Do the blood then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Wasn't. No, hold up. Wait a minute. Okay, I let him finish. All right.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Fetty Wap]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

What was his name, anyway?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. That was me trying to keep my eyes open.

[Angela Yee]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Mimi's tired. He was out last night.

[Angela Yee]

Mimi was in there looking like a bodega baddie reporter.

[Nyla Simone]

All right, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

So we start this morning with the latest on the chaos at the nation's airports. There are signs that it may be getting better. So President Trump says he plans to order that TSA officers be paid after working for weeks without pay during the government funding fight over the Department of Homeland security. So about 50,000 TSA workers, they've been going without a paycheck for more than a month. And that has led to major problems at airports across the country. We've all seen the videos. Officers have been calling out sick, some have quit, and security lines in some cities have stretched for hours. So the federal government, they are now moving some TSA officers around the country to deal with the worst problem spots. So for an example, agents from Dallas, they're going to go to Houston to help out with long lines there. The President says the government will use the money that was already approved last year to start paying TSA officers again. Now, that move could bring more workers back into the workplace to help get those airport lines under control, especially as we head into a busy travel season. It is still spring break, but this does not end the shutdown. Lawmakers have not reached a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And that is still adding to frustration. So Congress, they are set to leave Washington today for a two week recess, still without a deal. And some TSA union workers say ICE agents are not really helping. They're actually just kind of getting in the way. Let's listen to a TSA union worker and what he's feeling about this.

[Tim Shriver]

On a personal level, I don't, I don't think we need them here. We need to be paid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would you bring another agency to

[Tim Shriver]

be TSA when you already have tsa? They've been standing around outside the whole time.

[Caller/Listener]

So I would hate to call out another agent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But what I'm getting from some of

[Tim Shriver]

the officers is that they're just in the way. Now we're just, now we're on top

[Caller/Listener]

of having the heavy burden.

[Tim Shriver]

Now we have to train them in how we do our job.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree. It's unnecessary fear, it's unnecessary anxiety. They're getting paid. The TSA workers are not. And the TSA workers got to train them to do a job that they're getting paid for. But the TSA workers aren't. So that's more work for the TSA workers. Now I gotta train people.

[Angela Yee]

Literally said that Monday. That's like another slap in our face.

[DJ Envy]

I'm bringing the agency in that's getting paid. Paid to work now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but now I gotta train you. So now I got to do more work that I'm not getting paid for.

[Angela Yee]

And they're the reason that I'm not getting paid. And they're in my face getting paid.

[Mimi Brown]

Exactly. In Atlanta, a moment that's going viral this morning. Tyler Perry, you may have heard of him. He went to Atlanta, the Atlanta airport, yesterday to hand out worker. To hand out money to workers to help with rent, daycare, groceries. But he was politely turned away because federal workers are not allowed to accept cash on the job we talked about.

[Tim Shriver]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

So there's a limit to what you can donate. Some airports across the country, they've set up donation programs, but you cannot just hand out money. And so I would have been like, meet me around the corner.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. Oh, I swear, all of them need to, like, what is it? Start them GoFundMes and shout them out as people going past.

[DJ Envy]

I thought that they can give it to the manager and the manager could distribute it to the employees.

[Mimi Brown]

Up to $20.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. It can't be cash. It gotta be a gift card. $20.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My thing is, I just wonder who telling on them. Like, who. Like, who saw Tyler handing out the cash and said, hey, man, Tyler Perry over there handing out money. He can't do that because none of them should be taking money, to be honest.

[Angela Yee]

And then who gonna miss Tyler probably, because, like, money, once he come with that money, in Atlanta airport, for sure.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, well, coming up in the next hour, a comedy skit is going viral, but not everyone is laughing. I will tell you why conservatives are mad this morning.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Fetty Wap]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right. We'll get into that when we come back. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, Charlamagne, Envy, what up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He'll tell you what it is we like.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

It's Dion. Call for sale.

[DJ Envy]

Dion from Charlotte.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

704. What's happening in the foe?

[DJ Envy]

Y' all busting Nick's ass last night?

[Caller/Listener]

Sir, yes, sir. Hey, the first the versus was fire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't see it. Who you think going, man?

[Caller/Listener]

Tank just. It's pin. His pin is different.

[Angela Yee]

Say it again.

[Caller/Listener]

My recent thing, but Tank got the pin, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But who won, though?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he said Tank.

[Caller/Listener]

Tank.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Tank controlled the crowd. I think Tank was. He was more demanding. Even though Tyrese had the hits and Tyrese had the song. Like, Tyrese was really playing in the fact that this is a women's version verses, and he was really, really into the women. Like, he. He Take. Tank did his thing. And Take is a comedian, so Take was sure shooting at Tyrese all night long.

[Caller/Listener]

That turtleneck, I mean, that was hilarious.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, the turtleneck thing. I'm sure Lauren's gonna break it down in the latest. Yeah. Cause Tyrese had a turtleneck on. It was like 90 degrees in LA.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So he did a song about why you in the turtleneck? I got my turtleneck. And, like, he did it right on the spot, which was dope.

[Caller/Listener]

On the spot, man, the penmanship.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

Shout out to the city, man, the Hornets got going. Five zero, beat the Knicks, man. It's a good day in Charlotte. I said, but whatever.

[DJ Envy]

I said that already.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlotte is very Charlotte. Charlotte is sneaky good, bro. They one of them teams that can upset somebody in the first round of the playoffs.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Lamelo got to be on. Lamelo was on from the start last night. I knew we were gonna have a

[Caller/Listener]

problem, man, listen to me, man. I love it. We. Oh, oh, and the last thing, real quick, I love y'. All. Uncle Charlotte, my favorite Dominican dj, my cousin Jeff. Love y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, we love you, too.

[Caller/Listener]

The last day, Music Fridays. Freddie. I mean, Betty Wap and Chief. Chief dropped the album, man. This. This bring me back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, we got Fetty Wap on today.

[Caller/Listener]

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's what's up. That's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

All right, brother. Will you have a good one? Be safe out there, all right?

[Caller/Listener]

All right. Yes, sir. Appreciate y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, man.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Call up next. 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling.

[Caller/Listener]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. This is Shayla from Houston.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Shayla from Houston. How you doing out there in Houston, Listening to us on what987 to beat.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'.

[Caller/Listener]

Am. I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Good morning, Charlie. Man, the guy just DJ envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

93. Seven to be. I'm sorry, 93.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it. But I just wanted to say this. So I am a TSA worker, and I really wanted to come up here and give you some. Give some uplifting and thought provoking advice. But at the end of the day, we got to have multiple streams of income. It has shown us this. And everything that y' all are seeing on the news is a thousand percent true. And when I say they have ice there, and I'm gonna be very choice with my words, because I do work for the government, they can't do anything. They're not certified to do anything. They can't do any functions. So just being there, it just can be very much overwhelming. But I wanted to say that, and I definitely wanted to say I would love to promote my brand that actually pays me. Yes. And my name is Shayla Answer. My brand is Shayla Answer Collection. Listen, hold on, DJ Enzo. I know you like to hang up real quick. I gotta do. No, I have a daughter named Madison, and I know you have older daughter. And Jason had a daughter. And Charlie, man, got four daughters, I believe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Caller/Listener]

I have a little black girl on there named Maddie. It's a black girl with natural hair and full lips. No confusion who she represents, who she is. Everything's 18 karat gold. Everything's hypoallergenic. Showers, we don't work out. It does not fade, it does not tarnish. I would love for y' all to please just check out my brand that actually pays me. So it's Shayla S H a Y L A answer A N S a H. It's a guy and last name collection. There's Instagram. That's Tick Tock. There's Facebook. That's the website. I just. I just went for my brand so I can get myself, you know, paid, basically.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, tell them again, What's.

[Angela Yee]

What's Shayla answer.com for your website?

[Caller/Listener]

Shayla answer collection.com. okay. Instagram, website, Tick Tock is all the same.

[Fetty Wap]

Okay, thank you.

[Caller/Listener]

So I would do that. No, thank y' all so much. Y' all have a good day.

[DJ Envy]

And answer is a N S a H Collection.

[Caller/Listener]

Correct. Let me just say this real quick. I know I wrote something about five years ago about you interviewing me. I'm telling you, I guarantee you, you're going to interview me one day. I know that to be a fact, so I just want to put that out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, claim it.

[Caller/Listener]

You're going to interview me one day. I know that. I know that. So I will say that. I thank you guys so much. I listen to y' all every day, and I appreciate y'. All.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Shayla.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Appreciate you, Shayla.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest with Lauren coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. We do. Morning, girl.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Oh, tired from last night. We didn't have a good time this first hour. We had Cardi B last night. Tyrese had on the turtleneck. The I Heart Awards went down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why y' all demonizing turtleneck, right?

[Angela Yee]

Cause I didn't think he looked bad in the turtleneck.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think it was the fact that he did the outfit change and the turtleneck still remained. I think that was where the issue.

[Angela Yee]

He had the turtleneck through two outfits.

[DJ Envy]

We had a bunch of changes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Well, I only saw the white suit to the black suit, and then I fell asleep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I tried to watch it when you was in the concert.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I went home and I started as soon as we left the concert. And when I got home, I. I tried tanking Tyrese, I really did, because I knew that we should talk about it, but I ain't get the whole thing. It was like three hours on YouTube because people was reviewing it. And then Apple Music didn't have the full one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

But he started off with a so so def jacket. That's what he came out to. But I think they were talking about the tournament because it was like 90 degrees in LA.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

LA is 90 degrees out.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it was hot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But it looked. He looked like, how Tyrese coming over? Oh, shoot. We'll get into it in the latest.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

[Angela Yee]

The little brown girls look at you

[Lauren LaRosa]

and go, I want to be like you. Take me me through that. Take me through there she going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The latest with l' Oreal on the Breakfast Club. LL Talk to me. LL Top dog low.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good. But not yet. Next segment. Good morning, guys. Well, yesterday I heard you guys talking about already the. The top of the show, Cardi B at Madison Square Garden for the second. The second sold out show that she done. Yes. I was there last night, and I heard you talking about the production this morning. I was watching that. Like, man, I'm so proud of Cardi.

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like what? Like, I know she has, like, super fans, and I don't know where everybody that's listening and joined in on the journey. But, like, seeing her, like, I remember the first time I met her when she came to Delaware in Patience's shop to see nobody comes production. That's shut up to see the production last night. I'm like, this is superstar. Like, but for her to know, even business wise, that, like, that's what it should give, that's what it should elevate too. Like, I was like, girl, go off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it shows you that every single thing that has happened to you in your life matters. Because think about all of the stuff she probably learned in the script club that you literally, literally saw her doing on stage last night. And it looks incredible.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I posted a video. Listen. She was going crazy. They had like different segments where, like, they would bring out the pole, you know, Cardi do her thing with the dancers. Cardi was going crazy. But it's also like, she's so funny even when she's going down in between the stages. Like, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, she bought the big taco out. That was hilarious.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, that was funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taco out. And then they did the whole Spanish thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And she walks up, that's when she takes her drink of water. You know, you've seen it before. Yeah, but yeah, I just was proud of.

[DJ Envy]

She had a vision. I'm so happy

[Angela Yee]

contest that the guy won.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I asked one of my friends ridiculous about him. My friend said his name is Benji. He actually helps coordinate some of the poll stuff within the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't like it.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You didn't like. Oh, I got a video of him, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The main reason I didn't like it is because they were giving away $5,000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Yes. It was like a twerk concept.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing but women out there, you know, twerking, trying to get to $5,000. And here come this guy. Yeah, this big old guy twerking his ass. Crowd going crazy. He was taking money out of women's pockets.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It split. Let me tell you something.

[DJ Envy]

How he do though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was a dei. He was the only man willing to pop ass in front of the scale

[Lauren LaRosa]

of 1 to 10.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How he popped, I ain't wasn't paying no attention.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Was you upset that he took money out of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was a man.

[Angela Yee]

No, I lie. He gave it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not better than some of them women. There was this one girl with the gray on with the glasses. They didn't bring her on stage, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With the black top.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, she was on stage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

She had on like a checkerboard pants, black and white. Her pants was like my

[Charlamagne Tha God]

smallest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This ass, she was told, y skinny booties matter. She was repping. Okay. Envy only at a cardi B. It's not a concept. Yesterday you said you have a choice. I am choosing not to engage with you right now. It was not just A cardi b concert. It was a party. Even when they. Even when they did the twerk contest, I'm like, what concert you go to? And legitimate. We out here like, yes, Twerk. Get up there. Like, it was. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Why'd you go up there, Charlotte And

[Charlamagne Tha God]

y' all up there cheering that man that took that money off them girls pockets. Why you ain't going?

[Angela Yee]

They did better than all the other women that they brought on stage. And then they bought one girl up there, and she was nice up top. Her ass was giving. But she had uncle legs. I was like, damn, she's uncle legs doing this.

[DJ Envy]

Like knock knees?

[Angela Yee]

No, not knock knees. They were just like, you know, the legs that your uncle got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't care what y' all say. That man was DEI high, okay? It was a bunch of women up there. And because he was the only guy that was willing to go up there and shake ass, the crowd lost it and went crazy. He should not got that $5.

[Angela Yee]

Well, he probably didn't. If he a helper in the show. You said Lauren. If he works the production.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know that for a fact. That's what I was told. I put it in my group chat with my girls. With the girls, you know, my. My guy friends. And they was like, yes, Benji, he court. And I was like, oh, so he. That's why he knew what he was doing up there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But listen, if y' all don't care about men making more money than women, I don't give a damn either. Y' all don't care about men taking money out of women's pockets, why should I give a damn?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, but also last night, and I did not. Look, I'll be honest. I did not get to watch his full verses. I tried. The verses went down. It was like at the same time. So Tyreek. Tyreek Ty. Combining names. Tyrese and Tank.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, his name would be Tyrese.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tyrese and Tank went back, back and forth at A versus in la, and they were. I mean, I expected them to be very entertaining, but they were just that very entertaining. So I'm just gonna to talk play a few moments that I saw. And I also saw like on. On the timeline. Well, first of all, I know we were having a conversation about the songs. Like, because, you know, they do the 10 songs each. And we were trying to figure out here because, remember, we were going to do our little mini mix, what songs we would play for Tank, what songs we play for Tyrese. And I was like, well, Tank got a lot of songs that he's written that a lot of people don't know or give him credit for. So last night he did o. Omarion's. Oh, and I didn't know that that was. That I did not know that. That's always the cheat code in the first this.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't. The songs that you know. You know, I mean, it's not just about the songs that you perform. It's. It's your career. So the songs that he read, the songs that he performed on that he wrote, the songs that he appeared on, like Tyrese and Chingy, like Chingy came out last night. Tyrese did the hook to that. So that's what verse is about your whole career part.

[Angela Yee]

Like, if you going to do.

[DJ Envy]

You can said the boys are on tour. Cuz they're on tour.

[Caller/Listener]

I don't know.

[Angela Yee]

I just feel like. No, like do your song. You know what I'm saying? I know you wrote the songs, but if you're not the artist, I just feel like if you. You're not going against another writer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree with you.

[DJ Envy]

It should be your whole catalog.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because when Sean Garrett and the Dream went against each other, that made a lot of sense because they had their own songs, but they also wrote a lot of songs for other people. If you are a writer, you should be going up against somebody that actually has written a lot of songs, like Jesse said. I agree.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, there was also another song moment, original song moment that, you know, was everywhere last night as well too. So in between the set sets, Tyrese was changing outfits. It was like a whole rollout. Like, they got there for the rehearsal. That was like an outfit thing. And then he's on stage or changing outfits, and Tank makes it a funny moment. It was funny throughout the whole show, but makes it a funny moment about Tyrese's turtleneck. Let's take a listen.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, I know, I know. That was on the Fly. That's like.

[DJ Envy]

That was on the Fly.

[Angela Yee]

Wilding out like I.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[Angela Yee]

And Tank is so talented on the spot and funny. So I know that you ain't got nothing, Tyrese.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, we do. We got some Tyrese too. Yes, was there and he did. There were certain songs that we were waiting for him to hear, but Signs of Lovemaking was one of the ones that I saw that I was like, okay, the mic was on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, who won the verse?

[Angela Yee]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw people online saying they were giving it to Tank, and I didn't get to watch the full one song. I don't have a pick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw people saying Tyrese.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw people saying Tank. You watched more of it than we did.

[DJ Envy]

I watched it. I would say of course you know more of Tyrese songs, but I think Tank was more of the showman last night.

[Angela Yee]

So entertaining.

[DJ Envy]

He was more entertaining. He was playing to the women, he was talking to the crowd. So I would put it smack dad in the middle.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

And the reason I like Tank is I did not know a lot of Tank songs, but it was still entertainment.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me get this straight. You're in Italy Child pretended to be the white Italian man. Hard to believe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Michael, my nephew.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Please just tell me that you support me, girl.

[Caller/Listener]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is he fine though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on baby, you can eat, pray

[DJ Envy]

and love me, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

I knew Tyrese's song, so I could vibe with Tyrese's song, but it was dope. But what did Ray J say?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ray J had an opinion. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't take a listen. He can't rap.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sorry, I gotta rap. I guess we'll have to get back to that next hour because Ray J called a winner himself. Or somebody he thought lost. We'll get into that in the next latest.

[DJ Envy]

All right. All right. When we come back, we got front page news. And then fetty Wap will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. Is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to some front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V.

[Caller/Listener]

jeff.

[Mimi Brown]

Charlemagne. How y' all doing this Friday,

[Caller/Listener]

huh?

[Mimi Brown]

Say it again, T.

[Caller/Listener]

I want to

[Charlamagne Tha God]

be Tanker Tyrese so bad.

[Angela Yee]

So what, you still do comedy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

[Mimi Brown]

Let's start this hour with some breaking news out of Washington. So this is an update from the last hour. So after a 40 day shutdown, the Senate has reached a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, at least part of it. So senators approved a deal at 2:20 this morning after an all night night session. So here's what the deal does. It would fund tsa, FEMA and Coast Guard and several other homeland security agencies which would help keep airports open, travel back to normal. But the deal does not include funding for ICE deportation enforcement operations. And so that has been the main source of the main issue that's been holding everything up. So this comes just hours though, after President Trump said that he would move to immediately pay TSA officers, of course, who've been working, you know, for weeks without pay. So this deal could bring some relief, especially at airports. But it's not done yet. It has to be passed by the House. And lawmakers are still scheduled to leave Washington today, but it is expected to be signed by the President if they can get that done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So they won't get paid today then? Because today is a day that's supposed to miss another check.

[Tim Shriver]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

Their payday. I doubt it will happen today.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but maybe next week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I mean, ICE is still being airports this week, weekend.

[Mimi Brown]

Pretty much.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pretty much.

[Mimi Brown]

Pretty much. And switching gears, there's a new fight brewing between the state of Florida and the National Football League over something called the Rooney Rule. Florida's attorney general is now demanding that the NFL suspend the rule, saying it violates Florida's law because it considers race in the hiring process. So are you all familiar with the Rooney Rule and what it does?

[Angela Yee]

I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you have to interview a certain amount of black. Black candidates for head coaching jobs.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. So it does not require teams to hire them, but you have to interview them for a minority coach or a head job or a front office job to make sure more people are getting a fair shot at the job. Well, the NFL, they put the rules in place years ago after criticism that more black coaches were not getting those opportunities. Supporters say the rule opens The Doors creates fair competition, but critics say hiring should be completely race neutral. And now Florida is warning the NFL that the rule. If the rule isn't suspended, the state will take legal action. And Florida is home to what, three NFL teams?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, three.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay. And switching gears again, comedian Drew Ski. He's getting a lot of backlash this morning from conservatives.

[Caller/Listener]

Why?

[Angela Yee]

Because he's hilarious.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, he posted a skit online called How Conservative Women act in America. And that's where he puts on a blonde wig, heavy makeup. He plays a dramatic conservative character in a series of over the top scenes. He's praying at rallies, doing long speeches, ordering fancy dog treats, the whole thing. I think we have a little bit of a snippet.

[DJ Envy]

War is raging in Iran. Right.

[Fetty Wap]

We're praying. We're praying for all the soldiers that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And troops.

[DJ Envy]

That's great that you're praying, but how

[Charlamagne Tha God]

about all the kids that died when

[Mimi Brown]

the USA hit the.

[Fetty Wap]

The towers? It broke my heart. That is the. Oh,

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In what ways have you grown closer to Jesus?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I serve a righteous God.

[Fetty Wap]

And that is why we say our prayers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We are all his children. Well, it's more of a visual. You got to actually see it.

[Mimi Brown]

You haven't seen it, but you got to to see it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But yes, that is Drew's makeup artist is amazing.

[Mimi Brown]

Oh, my God.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody that keep adding Erica Kirk. Those not your friends, Erica. Anybody sent you that video. Any of your friends sent you that video and said Drew's making fun of you. They not your friends. And that's how they see you. Because he ain't say he was Erica Kirk at all. He said was conservative women. I can think of a lot of conservative women before I think of Erica Kirk. But that's how they think you look, Erica, they ain't your friends. If they sent you that video.

[Mimi Brown]

And Derek making friends, funny, he never said her name. But, you know, conservatives have come out and now they are saying things. So Senator Ted Cruz, he said the. The video is beneath contempt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want to hear that.

[Mimi Brown]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want to hear that from nobody who supports President Donald J. Trump.

[Mimi Brown]

Yep. And several other conservative commentators, they've also come out. They say it crosses the line. And they're pointing out that she just lost her husband and she should be off limits.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want to hear none of this. Donald Trump just literally said he was glad Robert Mueller died amongst a million other things he said that have been below contempt. I don't hear no.

[Mimi Brown]

There are other char who said, you know, she's a political figure who gives speeches. She runs a major political organization and that makes her fair game.

[Nyla Simone]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he wasn't making. He didn't say. He didn't say nobody's name. Conservative women.

[Angela Yee]

He could have been trying to put his bid in for white chicks, too.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And after, after one day, he had 62 million people watch that video.

[Fetty Wap]

Hello.

[DJ Envy]

I love it.

[Mimi Brown]

I think it's like at 100 and

[DJ Envy]

I just looked at Instagram.

[Angela Yee]

297. 7,000 comments. Shout out to Drew Ski.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All I know is this. Anybody that sent you that video and said Drew Ski making fun of you, they are not your friend. Okay? They think you look ridiculous because Drew Ski looked ridiculous in that video. They think you look ridiculous. Erica. I want you to know that.

[Mimi Brown]

And finally, really, really quick, because we went to go see Cardi last night. There's a new college course that's putting hip hop in the classroom in a whole new way. So shout out to Howard University and good morning to all my fellow bison. They are launching a new course focused on Cardi B, but it's not just about her music. So the class will study business, marketing, branding, cultural impact behind our album rollout. So basically, it's going to teach students how the music industry really works. Using Cardi B as a case study of the course, we'll look at everything from marketing strategy, live performance, to social media branding, and how artists build their careers, how they make money. School officials say this is about treating hip hop like a global business and a cultural force. That it is. And giving students real world industry knowledge, not just textbook theory.

[Angela Yee]

It is.

[Mimi Brown]

I love that it starts this fall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's no blueprint to be successful in hip hop, though, because you can't look at a Cardi B and say that's the way to do it. Because Cardi B is just special. Like some things are in you, not on you.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, but her, she's not just an artist and, you know, a great personality. She's a businesswoman. So that part of it will be taught too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Angela Yee]

You said the marketing, the branding, they'll follow.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they'll follow from. From the beginning and see the moves that she made that you can't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't duplicate.

[DJ Envy]

You can't duplicate it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But she was doing on social media,

[DJ Envy]

you can't duplicate it. But some of the moves that she said you had to study the. What she did when she decided not to do the strip clubs anymore, when she started marketing and doing the guerrilla Marketing and all that stuff. Yeah, you can study that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then also you can't do it.

[DJ Envy]

Not everybody could do it. But you can study how she did it, though.

[Angela Yee]

And even furthermore, Patience her. That's not just her part. What is that? Not her. Just her public is. Okay, well, what am I bad? I didn't know what. What else she was. Cuz nobody else is trying to effing help me. But yes, Patience her like you study her too. She actually is a good road map to like success and business and stuff. You know, she been with Cardi forever, since the beginning.

[Mimi Brown]

And then look at all that Jess, her team, all the people around her. So it should be a really good

[Angela Yee]

class F both of y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did she do? We can't even do nothing. We had to figure out what you

[DJ Envy]

was trying to say is. I don't know what she did. That's why I couldn't answer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what she was trying to say. I had to figure it out.

[Angela Yee]

Is that. Is she just Cardi's.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know

[Angela Yee]

now y' all don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't.

[DJ Envy]

I know her manager. I know where she started with Shaft. I know her manager. Tubby. I like. I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Patience is like a brand. Patience is everything. I don't know. Patience gets things done.

[DJ Envy]

She's a brand, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know things together. Salute to Patience. Drop one of clues, my Patience. I don't know her technical.

[Angela Yee]

I just feel like that's Cody's ever have. I mean, I don't know. I. I just didn't know the proper position of what y' all would know.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown.

[DJ Envy]

She get mad at us because we didn't know. We didn't get know. She get mad at us. Give us the middle page. All right, when we come back, Freddy Wap will be joining us at old move. It's the Breakfast Club Club.

[Fetty Wap]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yes, that's right. Today is Friday. So, you know, on Fridays, we do The People's Donkey Man. 1-800-585-1051. You can call up right now and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. All right, it's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

The album is out today. Ladies and gentlemen, Fetty Wap.

[Fetty Wap]

Yo, yo, what it is?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, brother? How you feeling? Easy on him.

[Fetty Wap]

Easy on him. I feel good, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Already. Did you really want to put this album out? You felt like you. You had to.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that was a fast turnaround.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, is this a. Like an organic thing or you just like, man, I got it. This.

[Fetty Wap]

No, it's definitely organic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Okay.

[Fetty Wap]

I wanted to. For sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Now, the name of the album is Xavier.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

What.

[DJ Envy]

What is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who.

[DJ Envy]

Who is Xavier?

[Fetty Wap]

Xavier is like my alter ego. Okay. I'm saying, like, just a more mature version of myself, like the one that sat back and took his time, the one that. That just watches his surroundings, you know, more. More mental awareness. Just. No, just not allowing. Not allowing. No BS this time. You know what I'm saying? Just a better version of my old self, that's all.

[DJ Envy]

Now, how has it been since you've been home, what, a couple months now? How has that feeling been? Because I've seen even when you move around, you move around a lot lighter. Yeah, it's more. You really look where you. Where you're performing now. It's not just performing in any. Any club and strip club. Like, I see that you're a. Make it a conscious effort to do things a. A different type of way. So explain that and break that down

[Fetty Wap]

a little bit, you know, like. Like, when I was down, I just kept telling myself, like, you know, I mean, like, if you want to be the best, you got to treat yourself like the best. You know, I'm saying, no matter how people view you, no matter what you read in the comments or if. If you're not as. As lit as everybody else, like, you still have to carry yourself a certain way. And I believe that when you follow that, like, when you follow that mindset, that it'll come into fruition for me. So that's just what I'm doing. Like, I'm treating myself like a superstar.

[DJ Envy]

Was there a time where you had to cut people off because they came around and they expected old Fetty the wild out Fetty the. Did you have to cut people off or was it a little easier than that?

[Fetty Wap]

It already happened when I first came home. Like, it wasn't. It wasn't. No, it wasn't a space to cut you off. Like, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was already gone.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, it was already there. Like, so we about to come to the studio. No, you're not. I'm saying, like, we ain't doing that. So it was like, when I. When I was. When I was calling, nobody was answering. Now everybody's trying to pop back up. Like, we Ain't we ain't. We ain't happen at this time. So. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't even. It wasn't even a great area to have that conversation with nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is there any resentment from people because of that? Because you set those boundaries?

[Fetty Wap]

I don't know. I don't speak to him to find the out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I wanted to know, too. After you did the first album, your voice sounded a certain way, right?

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Then right after you did the record, the record that sticks out of my mind is the record with Khaled. And in those records, it seemed like something changed with your voice.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What was that? Because in this project, it seems like you got it back. And that was my fear with Always with you was like, the first time they heard you, the raw vocals, it sounded different. Then your voice changed. Everything changed. And I was like, well, what was that change? And how did you get it back to.

[Angela Yee]

To.

[Fetty Wap]

To this really? It was like I was just trying, like, different things, like, because I was, like, trying to make another trap point so much that I'm like, maybe I should just try something else. And then, you know, man, if it work, it work. If it don't, then I'll just go back. But I. I was doing different things so much, I forgot how to. You know what I mean? Like, I forgot how to spin back. But I'm like, ah, you know what? This time I sat back and I'm just like, I gotta get back in that groove. So. So with this whole project, it was more so like, let me just try to be more of a creator than a creative than. Than just just trying to make songs to put out. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, that's how I got to get back in that bag. Like, when I did the trap queen679 and all those records, like, it was just me having fun, being creative. Like, just doing something different. Like, let me try this out and see how it sound like. And that's what I did with this one. Like. So, like, to answer your question earlier, that's why I felt like, no, I'm like, yeah, like, I'm ready for it. Like, you. You know. You know how I record. So I'm. This is nothing new. Like, no, I do that. I'm in there a lot. I record a lot of records. But this time I took my time recording the record, you know, I mean, like, even though it happened a little faster, but I felt like. I felt like. Like I found that sound again. Like, I found that. That. Yeah. So, yeah, that's. I feel like. I feel like that that voice came back, like, this time you singing a

[Angela Yee]

lot more on the album. Yeah, we get to hear the vocals.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, for sure.

[Angela Yee]

That's like on purpose or. It's like.

[Fetty Wap]

No, definitely purposely. I definitely purposely did it, like,

[Angela Yee]

because,

[Fetty Wap]

you know, I. I like, I always been like the melody. Like, the melody, dude. You know what I'm saying? But, like, I'm like, I could do. I could do a little bit more.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, you never tapped into. You got vocals on here.

[Fetty Wap]

I'm trying to, you know, I mean, I'm trying to. I ain't trying to do too much. I mean, I ain't trying to do

[Charlamagne Tha God]

too much, but you're trying to get your Jack Hollow on.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

You sound good, though.

[Fetty Wap]

I appreciate that. Appreciate that for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you measure your. Your own growth as an artist when you're creating a project?

[Fetty Wap]

From the people, Honestly, like, from the people. Like, I like this time around when I was recording, like, I tried to have people I don't know, like. Like people I don't know there, and I just. I just read the energy in the room. Like, if people want their phone too much or they're not paying attention, they scratch it. You know what I'm saying? Damn. Like, if I start, I see people, you know what I mean? Like, ah, yeah, we gonna keep that one. Like, you know what I'm saying? And that's how I kind of know, like, because if you got the gods there, I mean, that's hard. Like, I even say that, bro. Bills on the bus, go ride around.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I mean. How do you know what's real and what's not? Cause you might turn the beat on, they might just bop. Because they there in the moment. And just being on the phone don't necessarily mean you not listening. That's just sadly the way the world is.

[Fetty Wap]

Nah. So throughout the process, like, if. If you ever been in, like, if you ever been to anybody's sessions, like, you know, some people tell me take two hours every to make a song. Some people take a day. Some people might do it in 30 minutes. Like, you know, I mean, I'm kind of a little bit quicker. But that process of not bring back right there. All right, bring me her hair. All right, let me. Let me do these doubles right here and let me do this. You know, on the outside, it's quiet. You know, the. The engineer got to hear you. So it's real quiet out there. So people just kind of just waiting. So if they reacting every time that beat drop. Oh, yeah, all right. Like, you know what I'm saying? You kind of. Yeah, they. They feeling this a little bit. You know what I mean? And then when it's time to do the playback, everybody just start, you know? I mean, everybody start having fun. They jamming. So, like, if. If the. If it's not going that way, even when the playback come, it's like, ah, yeah, maybe that's not the one.

[Angela Yee]

You know, I kind of like that. That's like, like a open mic type of situation. Like, where do you get the people from if they don't know you?

[Fetty Wap]

Like, so, like, I just invite, like, like friends that I met, like, like, like that when I was in prison. You know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

Well, they know you, but they ain't never.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, I mean, like, they family. Like, they'll just tell you, you know, I mean, just tell you they didn't want, you know, yo, my. Yo, my sister want to meet you. You know, I mean, stuff like that, you bring to the stool, bro. Like, and it'll be like, probably like five, six people there. Like, five, six, seven people. Not too much. And I just see how they react when I'm recording. And it'd be like that, like. Or I have like, a few dudes from, like, a few, like, media outlets and stuff like that. Like, just see how they react, acting. I mean, when you came home, you

[DJ Envy]

were well received when you came home, right? We've seen you pop out with a boogie. We've seen you pop out with a bunch of people. We seen artists celebrating you, even on this album now. I mean, you got, you know, Wiz Khalifa, Honey Baby, Tink, Max B. You know, Albion, you got a G, herbo, got so many things. Were you surprised about the. The love that you received when you came on?

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, of course.

[DJ Envy]

Why?

[Fetty Wap]

I mean, and I'm gonna keep saying, you know, because you really do know, like, right? It wasn't like this, you know what I'm saying? Like, but even when we did our record, bro, like, you know, I mean, people wasn't really, like, people wasn't rocking with me the way they say they is now. Like, you know, I mean, like, and it's cool. Like, you know, I mean, like, and I don't like to be that person, like, to try to bring that negativity out of it, but I'm just also a real dude. Like, I'm not gonna ever be fake to myself, but, you know, like, I tell Everybody, like, I appreciate it so much more than anybody, understand, because that feeling of feeling forgotten, you know, I mean, or thinking you've been forgotten or just sitting in that. You know, sitting in there and, like, you don't hear yourself or nobody reaching out, and you hear, like, how everybody else. Oh, people just reached out to this person while he was down. I'm like, what's up? Like, you know what I mean? To come home and it's like, everybody, like, we've been waiting for you. And I'm like, thanks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I didn't know y' all didn't make me feel like that when I was down.

[DJ Envy]

What do you think changed that? What do you think that. That. That came from?

[Caller/Listener]

From?

[Fetty Wap]

I. I. I guess just, like. I don't know. I just. I just never changed, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I never changed when I stood true to who I was, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, and I don't. I don't like to, like, to. How you say it? Like, what's the word I'm looking for? Like. Like, congratulate that. But, you know, like, I. I still told him what. What I did. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I. I glorified it. Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to, like, glorify like, that. That side of it. But. But, you know, like, I. I did what I had to do. Like, when it was my time to go sit down, I sat down and I, you know, I mean, I did it on my 10, bro. Like, and I guess a lot of people respect that, you know what I mean? And I. This was what comes with it. I don't know. I don't know how to explain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think you also remind people of

[Angela Yee]

a great year, a great time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. When you. That 2015, 2014, 2015, I think people really wanted. They, like, I remember that era, absolutely.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah. We had a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Every. Every club. I mean, everywhere I went that year, that year, 2015, 2016, everywhere I went, it was just always fun. Like, we never had incidents at any of my parties, anywhere I performed. That was never a problem. Everybody had fun. Even. Even the security guards. Like, bro, do your job. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, but it was lit, though. Like, I feel like. Like, I don't know. I just feel like I'm just happy, bro. I mean, like, that's. That's my only emotion I have. Like, I'm just. I'm just happy and Humble, like, appreciative to everybody that's been showing me love, all the artists that's been reposting everything, been commenting. Like, I've been seeing everything. And I'll just be like, thank y' all so much. Like, y' all understand how. How. How appreciative I am of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, I know you're doing music, but is it true you got your GED and hvac certification?

[Fetty Wap]

I didn't get my H VAC certification, but I got my ged.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did okay. I read that. Course courses.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, for sure.

[DJ Envy]

Any of your family members call you and be like, hey, I come to meet you.

[Fetty Wap]

We all live in Jersey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You took hvac courses? What's that?

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, I started it, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Fetty Wap]

But when I got my. When I got my date back to come home, I ain't have enough time to finish.

[DJ Envy]

Gotcha.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was there ever a time where you was thinking, like, man, after this music, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go learn a trade. When I come home, that's what I'm gonna do.

[Fetty Wap]

Of course that was the reason why I was doing it. I didn't know. Like, I didn't. Honestly, I didn't think nothing was. None of this was gonna happen like this, really? Oh, really? For sure. Yeah. Like, I ain't think it was going. I was gonna come home and it was gonna be like this. Like, I'm like, no, I'm gonna just get. Because all I remember was, like, they was like, oh, well, all the equipment is heavy. When we got to carry, like, the. Let me fix. Like, we got to take the ACs out and stuff like that, I'm like, I gotta get my weight up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He worked out.

[DJ Envy]

He was like, I gotta go H Vac. I gotta carry hot water heaters out here.

[Fetty Wap]

If I gotta start doing stuff like that, I gotta. I gotta get a little strong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I respect that. I respect the fact that you was willing to say, you know, I'm gonna go get a job, right?

[Fetty Wap]

I'm not. I'm. I. Once I. Once I put my pride to the side. Like, once I remove pride out of the. Out of the topic, bro, I started living my life, bro. Like, I'm saying, I just be happy. I'll be chilling. You know what I mean? Like, I'll be feeling. You know, I look in the mirror, I look good, I feel good, I smell good. I just be chilling, like.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Fetty Wap]

And that's just that. Pride of pride. Pride of dim your light Prior to take that glow from you. You know what I'M saying, like. Like, you feel like you too good to ask anybody for help. I'm not. That's not me no more. You know what I mean? Like, I don't care how people view me. And certain aspects. I say, like, that in certain aspects of my life, I don't care how people view me. I mean, like, I know how it feels to. To have a lot. I know how it feels to have nothing. I know how it feels to feel like nothing. I know how it feels when people feel like they got the power over you, you know what I'm saying? I've been in that situation for four years of my life where people telling me where to stand up, people telling me when to. When I could leave and go out to eat, when people telling me when I could go work out or come back in the unit. You know what I'm saying? Or just constantly raiding myself just because they just want to go home and, hey, guess who sale I hit today? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I've been through that, and it's the corniest thing in life. So now I'm just living my life for me. Like, I don't. Nobody could. Nobody could ever make me feel that low again. And I promise I'm never gonna let nobody get that power.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When did you get your dream for music back? Like, when did you say, you know what?

[Caller/Listener]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm. I'm going get a music thing?

[Fetty Wap]

Oh, it's crazy. It. When I left here, like, after. After we did the interview is when I left here, you know, that was. If I'm not mistaken, that was the day I went straight to the studio, and that's when I laid down. Like, I laid down all them songs that day. Really?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did the Max B collaboration come from y' all meeting him?

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah, for sure.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was wondering that. Okay.

[Fetty Wap]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was it about? What was it about doing this interview?

[Fetty Wap]

I was just. The energy, bro. Like, the. The energy, man. Like. Like, y' all just show me mad love, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I have to. Trust me. Listen. We listen to y' all every morning, so, you know, it could get rough up here, you know? I mean, you're rough up here, like, definitely. And. And. But. But the way y'. All. The way y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Fetty Wap]

The way y' all just brought me back home, bro. It just was like. It was all love, so it was like, you know, like. Like, I want. Like, I want. Hear me. I want to be in that top 30 countdown, like. Like, you know what I mean? Just, just challenges, man. I just like to challenge myself, you know. And then it was like, everybody like, all right, what's up? Like, you know, then the whole 2015, 2016, 2026 thing, I'm like, nah, I got, let's, let's go have some fun.

[DJ Envy]

That's what made me happy. When he came to my, the black film reunion I did at the mall in American Dream to see the kids from age 5 to 40 year old people, 50 year old people.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

It was like they were just so. I mean, he had. The mall stopped and it was just multiple floors, multiple floors. But it was like when I seen a five and six year old kid, knew every record, knew every word, it was really surprising. And I seen your face, it was just like, holy.

[Fetty Wap]

Because it's a little bit unbelievable, A little bit, you know, like, like the time frames don't match up and that's what always get me, you know what I'm saying? Like, like I meet a lot of people that are like, oh, you shaped my high school years, you shaped my college years, but these kids ain't in college or high school yet. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, how do you, like, you know what I mean? Like, and like for me it's like, wow, like what they call, like, like generational, like different generations. Like, like I made it to two different generations of, of life. Like, you know what I mean? And that's, that don't happen for a lot of people. So like to. When I walked in here, I'm not expecting that. Like, you know what I mean? I'm like, like, what is going on? Like, like this is crazy. But you know, it just, it was just like, I'm just happy, like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm just happy for all of it. Like, for sure.

[Angela Yee]

Your first time, your first time performing, you know, since you've been out, were you nervous leading up to it?

[Fetty Wap]

To actually perform? No. To be around, like, have people that close to me. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What made you nervous about that?

[Fetty Wap]

I've been in prison for four years, you know what I'm saying?

[Caller/Listener]

I got it.

[DJ Envy]

So you look at a friend of four, you don't know who's there, who's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like social anxiety. Yeah.

[Fetty Wap]

Because, you know, you just, you, you got this, you got the group of people you be with. And I mean, I put you like this. If it's too many people on the yard, something about to happen to somebody, you know what I'm saying? Like, something about to happen to Somebody like, you know what I mean? So you. It. And. And you know, a lot of people go, oh, well, you wasn't even down that long. I was down long enough to understand what was happening. You know what I mean? I was down. I was right. All. Yeah. All right, come on, we gonna play the back wall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You did. You did like four, right?

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You go do it.

[Fetty Wap]

But you got people that, you know, you got people that's been in there for a long time, but, you know, they school like, you know what I mean? So, like, to come right out, I think it was literally the next two days or the next three days or something like that. And we walking there. I'm thinking they gonna have a little section. I could probably just. Let me. Let me ease into it. As soon as I walk in. I'm talking about right here.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Fetty Wap]

Back up, bro. It's crazy, but it. It was just, you know, it was just a little, like, a little uncomfortable at first.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Fetty Wap]

So they had. I had, like, told me, let me go, like, by the DJ booth where I know all the DJs that was over there. So I'm like, I feel a little bit better right here. That's why that video is from me of the DJ booth, because I'm like, yeah, I can't stand right there. I can't do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is there anything new that you're still getting used to? Like, what else are you still getting used to? Used to?

[Fetty Wap]

Really? I just, like, just. Just the kids, bro. Like. Like, these little kids just be running up on me. 1738. I'm like, Bro, how do you know me? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, but it's like the tik Tok. Like, I've been doing that a lot. Like, like my little kids, like, like that.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I saw the one you did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You getting it?

[Fetty Wap]

I'm learning it. Like, I just been like. And everybody like, yo, bro, like, you just been having, like, yeah, I'm just having fun. Like, I'm. I'm just enjoying it. Like, no. And I, like, I just did a. I think it was last Sunday. I just did a walk for like a glaucoma walk for. For the little homie baby Hayes. I mean, eight months ago, he got. He was born with congenital glaucoma. We got the same exact. I don't want to call it disease. No.

[Angela Yee]

Condition.

[Fetty Wap]

Condition. Yeah. You feel me? And his. His sister. His sister was there and we did like, we did the little tick tock and everything like that it was a good turnout. So, like, like, because that's how I've been really, like moving around. Like, I, I just try to. I just been trying to have fun while still working and, you know, me just staying focused and doing something positive with my fatherhood. I mean, it's good. Yeah, it's great. I can't complain, you know, I mean, like, you know, every now and then you got, like, everybody got, Everybody got their own issues. But I feel like as of lately, like, you know, me and the mother of my children, we just, we talk, talk. We talk to each other in real life and not on social media, right? So, I mean, that's been, that's been a good thing, you know what I'm saying? And I just try to keep it like that, you know, Like I'm not the best person in the world, you know, I'm never claiming to be the best father in the world, you know what I'm saying? But I'm gonna do what I gotta do every time I'm called on, you know what I'm saying? And they understand that. What's going on for me, I'm running around right now with the, with the album and all that, doing this one and everything. So. So they ain't been, you know what I mean? But all the kids older, they got phones. I facetime, call them when I can, like, you know what I mean? Like, it's just been. Fatherhood is just. Is a blessing, like, you know what I mean? Just to have, just to have the kids. Just call your dad. What's up? Like, what we doing? Like, all right, go get. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's great. It's a great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One of your baby moms got mad as soon as you came home, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, so we talked about that last time you said was Masika.

[Caller/Listener]

And then.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But then after that there was. I don't know which. Which what her name is the other light skinned girl, right? She got on social media too. She made a video and she was upset and she was talking about. I forget her name though. Another one of your baby moms. Light skin, I think she has like red hair. She had black hair at the time. She changed her hair colors a lot. She lives in Jersey. She's from Jersey.

[Angela Yee]

Like, that's all of them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't remember her name, but she was upset. It was kind of. It wasn't even about you seeing the kids. It was something with her talking about you were running around with people who you shouldn't have been running around with. Who Weren't holding you down. And she felt like she deserved.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I don't know nothing about that. I was just thinking like, brother a minute. He just came home.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But then we saw you with your kids, with Masika, and, you know, all of that worked out.

[Fetty Wap]

So, I mean, like. Like I said before, like, I don't talk about. I don't talk bad about them at all. Like, I will never speak bad about them. When I was down, they held my. They. They did. They did what they had to do. They. They great mothers. My kids are healthy and growing. They glowing. They beautiful. They know who I am. They love me. They made sure they know to love me. They didn't forget me. They didn't let them forget me. So I'm forever grateful of my kids, mom. So I don't have nothing bad to say about them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I saw you say at one point, too. I think it was on Gilly and Wallow that you had, like, told, like, your kids you didn't even want them coming to see you after a while.

[Fetty Wap]

Nah. Yeah, I did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what. What were the conversations? What are the conversations? Like, just about that time. Because they're probably wanting to know what that time period was like for you.

[Fetty Wap]

No, they knew what was going on. Like, I still spoke to them over the phone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Fetty Wap]

As far as, like, coming to see me in prison, nah, you know, it's just. It's like when I visit over, man, like, like I said, they got the power. You know? I mean, like. Like, one thing I can say, though, the only good thing is, like, they allow you to have your kid with you the whole time.

[Angela Yee]

Like, you can see them, touch them.

[Fetty Wap]

You can hold them the whole time. They can sit on your lap right there the entire time. You know what I'm saying? But when it's over, it's over. Yeah. And when they say, all right, daddy, come on, like, nah, I can't come right now. So when you coming? Like, I mean, I don't want to keep having this conversation every week. Then I go back. There could just be somebody playing at the wrong time. I mean, I'm mad that I can't go with my kids and somebody say something crazy now. You know what I mean? Something gotta happen. You know what I mean?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was gonna ask, does that make the bid harder or easier? Would you rather not see him at all or see him every now and then?

[Fetty Wap]

Nah. Make it easier.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Fetty Wap]

Make it easy. Cause you're not looking forward forward to it. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're not looking forward to it. And then, like, if you got people in the fast man, you know, like, if, you know, you know, man, like, you could talk to your kids every day. You know what I'm saying? You can see your kids every day.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Fetty Wap]

You know, I mean, like, so if you're not making that ever, unless you just don't got no money, like, I'm. I wouldn't say it like that, but I mean, be a laundry dude, like, or. Or do something. It's a lot of. It's a lot of jobs in jail. You could to be able to talk to your kids. Gotcha.

[DJ Envy]

We appreciate you for joining us. I just want to say one thing. One thing I do respect is I like to watch people when. When the cameras are not on. And when I seen you leaving an event, a kid stopped you and just said, you know, they wanted a picture. And what impressed me is you sat there and you spoke to that kid for a minute, right? Kid had no idea. But he was asking the kid, like, what do you like to do? Or I do this. And it was just like a connection where you didn't have to. To like, you know, I mean, you could have just got out of there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You, you know, you. You.

[DJ Envy]

You did what you had to do. But I respect that because for that kid, when you. When you left, he was happy than a pig. I don't know what but. And I respect that the most because you make those connection with your fans, and a lot of people don't. So I respect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to curse because I'm talking about a kid. I say, and you don't know what that could be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is that like something from y' all time?

[DJ Envy]

From your time?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what?

[DJ Envy]

Forget it, man. I was just trying to give you some problems. That's all I'm trying to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fetty loves the kids.

[Fetty Wap]

I can say something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me get this straight.

[Fetty Wap]

You're in Italy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Child pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance. Hard to believe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Michael, my nephew.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

[Fetty Wap]

Please just tell me that you support me, D. No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is he fine, though? Come on, baby.

[DJ Envy]

You can eat, pray and Love Me, Baby.

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[Fetty Wap]

Yo, I just want to give a shout out to all the artists that's on the project. You know what I'm saying? Everybody that took their time out to send back their verses, that even took the time out to listen to the song. I felt like it was good enough that they wanted to be on it. To all the producers that helped me with this project, I just want to thank everybody for just showing me love.

[Caller/Listener]

Love.

[Fetty Wap]

You feel me? So I said, oh, yeah, and free the gods.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jersey gonna love you for having LB out. Yeah. On real ones.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Caller/Listener]

I got. I got.

[Fetty Wap]

Oh, man. From Jersey, we got Honey Baby.

[DJ Envy]

Honey Baby.

[Fetty Wap]

Hard luck. My boy Oscar from the Ziploc killing it, too. I got both of my sisters up there and my older brother Monty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Monty on.

[Fetty Wap]

No Monty. It ain't no Fetty Wap album without Monty, too, man. You know he up there. That don't even count.

[DJ Envy]

All right, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Fetty Wap.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren, you coming with Straight Face

[DJ Envy]

about some.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's the latest brought to you by Top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club.

[Tim Shriver]

Dog.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We were talking in the last latest about who won the verses, Tank or Tyrese. And I said that Ray J weighed in on who he thought did not win and wanted you guys to hear that. Let's take a listen.

[Fetty Wap]

I ain't seen the whole verses, but I know Tyrese was trash. Tyrese was worse than I was on verses, you know, and I could feel it. I could just feel the. The turtleneck and the anxiety in his voice and in his mood. Tyrese was trash. I think Tank won, and that's before I even finished watching it. But I just. I can feel the anxiety and the insecurity in Tyrese's voice and his love look and his mannerism. Tyrese is completely Trash.

[DJ Envy]

He always has been.

[Fetty Wap]

I didn't just say that. The Rock said it as well. Even though he's from Watts. It's just. I think there's a much more talented people from Watts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was a waste of time. He didn't even watch the whole verse.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But also, he said Tyrese didn't sound better than him. Y' all want to hear Ray J when he was at Versus? Y' all remember how Ray J sounded? Car wish to have a fancy Car

[Charlamagne Tha God]

wish to have a million bucks go as long as you don't be in love pretty baby. This is all unnecessary.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, why I did that to Rachel?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The last 60 seconds has been unnecessary.

[Angela Yee]

But what. What, he got beef with Tyrese or something?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I text him, ask him, what's your issue with Tyrese? Because Tyrese sounded. He sounds good. Way better.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't playing none of Tyrese. Last hour, you played like 20 seconds of Tyrese, and now you playing Ray J saying that Tyrese is Trapp. Now you want to act like Tyrese sounds so good because you feel bad because Ray did call him trash for no reason.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Bad Ty. I've always said that Tyrese sounds amazing. I even told you that when I opened up this. We did. We played some of Tyrese last segment. Okay, so we're.

[Caller/Listener]

We're.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, I wanted to mention, too. They said Genuine was supposed to be at the verses, but he got caught up in all of the. The TSA mess at the airport and wasn't able to make it into the verses. People were looking for Genuine.

[Angela Yee]

That's who they really needed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

People were looking for them to do the. They were supposed to close out the verses with Genuine. That didn't happen.

[Angela Yee]

And you supposed to. That dance.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They were gonna sing and dance. I'm assuming they have new music coming four o'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clock.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jamie Foxx made it, though, but okay.

[Angela Yee]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So moving on. Other music news. The Kanye West. I was gonna say, I don't even know how you intro this, but Kanye west, yay. He dropped music. Ish. Like, I'm a little confused. So. So Bully was slated to drop today. Yesterday at the concert, I knew it was gonna drop. I text a person on Kanye side and say, hey, is this actually going to come out? Because it's been supposed to come out and they keep pushing a date. They said, yes, it's coming out. I went to look this morning, and I didn't see a new 2026 bully rendition on. On streaming, I saw some older renditions. Right. But then on Twitter, there's Like all these songs that are out from Kanye west, from this new project and what fans. And now the reports are saying is that last night while we were at the concert, a little bit after. And a little bit after midnight as well, too, he streamed. Concert, party, concert.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He streamed on YouTube, like a full listening of the album of some sort. I haven't listened to that in full. I just saw a lot of the clips online and fans are excited. They say we got the old Kanye west back.

[Angela Yee]

Yes. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for him.

[DJ Envy]

I believe he said, I brought a white queen to the altar. Dr. Umar would not appreciate that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But you got to hear the couple bars after that. I feel like he's talking about the cost of, like, trying to do all that. I don't know. I haven't listened to it in full, to be honest with you guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kanye has always been so great musically that.

[DJ Envy]

That.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That you always going to check for Kanye's music, right? Yes, for the most part. But I don't know what Kanye could do to make people care about the new music in, like, a massive, massive way. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you not think about back in the day how there was a frenzy around Kanye West's music. Like, I didn't even know he'd put out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See, that's what I'm saying. And that's why it confused me, because I'm like, I'm. I'm googling. I'm trying to find it. But I think what it would be is he would have to be so super vulner. Have to, like, not be vulnerable for, like, a rage bait. Like, you know, some. The past. Kanye west has been.

[Angela Yee]

You don't know the difference, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kanye's always been vulnerable.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I feel like in the. His last, like, the last couple projects, it's been like, stuff that we don't. It's been things that make people upset.

[DJ Envy]

If Kanye stopped pumping, if he stopped pump faking and said, my album is coming out this day, it would be. It would be a lot more. It would be a frenzy for people to hear Kanye music. If he did a couple of interviews, I think he would. But he keeps pump faking. You didn't. You do press and didn't even know if it came out. If it didn't come out, I'm still confused. I'm not being out. I can't even download it on dbs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I actually think dspme. I actually think Kanye's antics over the last several years overshadow everything Everything is. So even when we hear about music or any project, you just think about, well, what's gonna come with that? What's. The antics that are gonna.

[DJ Envy]

They still excited about Kanye. They still want to hear Kanye.

[Angela Yee]

Cause I know I ain't him.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And some of the stuff not like

[Charlamagne Tha God]

it used to be, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's different. It is different.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very different.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But that's what I mean by vulnerable. Not saying that he hasn't. We always know that Kanye west wears everything on his sleeve and in his music. I just feel like the vulnerability over the last couple years has been the antics that you guys are talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's why I think that if he comes out with an album like Bully and it's actually just great music and the focus is the music and we can get back to thinking about how great he was as an artist. That's the best thing for him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And there are some. I heard a. A new audio from his mom on this album and he has like unreleased vocals from on this album. So I don't know. Once I get to hear the full. We'll be back. But I did want to take.

[DJ Envy]

He's still selling out shows, right? He's still. He's sold out Japan. He sold out LA

[Lauren LaRosa]

listening events happening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With that type of catalog, why wouldn't he.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With the statue of artist that he is,

[Lauren LaRosa]

it feels very underground.

[DJ Envy]

And you don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

If you don't know when Kanye's album is coming out, you don't know what's playing. Like, how many renditions of Bully do we need?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know.

[Angela Yee]

I was excited for both because he always had like a power story. Like, remember when he was like, I was going down on my cousin when I was four scene. I was like, okay, what's. Where's the music?

[DJ Envy]

What's going on?

[Angela Yee]

I want to hear more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

In the music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you want him to do Put it in your mouth remix what you want to do what you wanted him to do.

[DJ Envy]

You know what.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What did you crazy segue from put it in your mouth. But the I heart Shifting gears. The I heart Music awards went down last night and I just wanted to really quick shout out Kendrick Lamar.

[Angela Yee]

He.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He took everything in a lot of the hip hop categories. Artist of the year, album of the year for gnx Hip hop song of the year year. Taylor Swift made history last night. She extended her record of iHeartRadio wins. 41 wins. And then she was there. Her and Travis Kelce made their Like TV Awards debut at the iHeart Awards. And she thanked him in her speech as she accepted one of her awards for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For what? He should be thanking her. He just got a new contract, three years, and it's only because they want Taylor Swift at them games.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do we have time to play that? No. Okay, well, she thanked him because she said that her. Her last round of music was very free and fun and confident, and that's what her man gives her. She said, thank you. Me in. Okay.

[Angela Yee]

She ain't say it like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, she didn't. But it was a summation of it. You know how we would understand it like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She ain't had no soul like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Always want to give you why she did not have soul like that when she said it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She did. My fiance. It was different. But, yes, TLC and Vogue and Salt and Pepper also performed. You guys know that they're headed out on tour right now. Ludicrous won the Landmark Award. He also hosted the award show. So it was a great, great show that you guys can go and watch on Hulu if you want to, you know, take a. A peek at the I Heart Music Awards. It was historic night. And in closing, thanks to Top Dog Law for sponsoring the segment.

[Fetty Wap]

All right.

[Angela Yee]

Yo, it is Mariah Curry birthday. Happy birthday, Mariah Curry. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm sorry.

[Angela Yee]

Happy birthday, Mariah Carey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she got a wicked jump shot, too.

[Angela Yee]

No, and happy birthday to Fergie, too. She was once a black ip. Now she's just white. Now she, you know, she's just going through. So. Happy birthday, Fergie. She 51, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Jess was out last night, ladies and gentlemen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So if you weren't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, one drink.

[Angela Yee]

I say, right? I had to say happy birthday every day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The producer's trying to rap, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am sick of you two. Okay, you took them out.

[DJ Envy]

You took them out last night.

[Angela Yee]

Definitely did.

[DJ Envy]

What's going on with Doc?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thanks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the people's donkey, man. Four after the hour. You can call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So do that right now. 1-800-585-1051. Okay. It's the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember, now, that is how they choose. I was watching now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it's Donkey of the Day for Friday, March 27th. 11th is the People's donkey. You know, every Friday, we allow you, the people, to call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So good morning. Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, what up, though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, though? Who this?

[Caller/Listener]

Deontay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Deontay who you want to get a biggest he haw to?

[Caller/Listener]

To the dude Eddie, who be answering the phone. Eddie put me on hold before I was trying to get my baby mama donkey today. Put me on hold for like, 40 minutes there, hung up on. Then when I was supposed to get my info to you Charlemagne for my book, probably come behind me, you put me on hold. He answered the phone. It was like, all right, what's your input?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Then hung up on that sound like Eddie.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah. So today I caught off my other cell phone, and he answered, but he wouldn't answer off my other phone the last couple times I called. So he got to get the junk here today just for picking and choosing who he wanted to answer the question. It'd be some crazy people he be letting through the phone. And I called J for a real reason, and he just hung up on me for no reason. So Eddie get the clown of the day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, Eddie damn clowned out. And don't try to edit him either. Eddie, you need to hear this.

[Caller/Listener]

And he got gay ears because he answered all the gay calls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. God damn. Eddie F from Philly. Philadelphia Eagles fan. Philadelphia 76ers fan.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I people know Eddie F. Boy. God damn. Eddie got gay ears. Good morning. Who's this? KZ man, KG from kc. Who you want to get a biggest he heart to baby Charlotte. Oh, God. Come on, man. They got to be other people that y' all want to give donkey to. Other than. I'm gonna go, I'm start doing donkey myself on Friday if y' all can't do better. But go ahead.

[Caller/Listener]

My donkey is.

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Because, man, when Jess doing the woman

[Caller/Listener]

of the month and this and that, man, at the end, when she get dark, y' all be making her feel real low, man. But y' all be going real quiet. No jokes, none of that. Be like, come on, man, let her make it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I ask you a question?

[Angela Yee]

Thank you, cuz. Like, what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you learned anything from the woman? Have you learned anything from the women of the day that she does?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you learned? What you learned? What you learned?

[Caller/Listener]

I learned that. That women be struggling and stuff.

[Angela Yee]

Hello.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She don't even do real women. She do fictional women from movies.

[Angela Yee]

No, but I do fictional women from movies. Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

They're not real women, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I got.

[Caller/Listener]

I got a question. I got a question on for real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Huh?

[Caller/Listener]

Stuff. Can't this get fixed if everybody just like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's actually gonna make it worse, I would think. But no, you know what? You right, though, because the airlines would start complaining. They wouldn't be making no money. So you basically like a boycott is what you're saying. Like, won't that force they have? Maybe.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm just saying. I just thought. I throw that up, cuz Martin Luther King did it. Hey. Hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love y.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, love y.

[DJ Envy]

Love you too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, man, black people are the best, man. Hey, man, Epic. Wouldn't everything change if everybody just effort didn't quit. Mar King did it. I think it was a little more sophisticated than that, but. Good morning. Who's. Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. This is Janelle, AKA Remiss Curls. Hello, Breakfast Club Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Janelle.

[Caller/Listener]

Debbie.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you want to get a biggest he haw to Janelle?

[Caller/Listener]

I want to say I went to Growing show, and this Karen woman, she kept telling me, sit down. I just dropped, like, my. I dropped something. I stood up to look and I shined my light. She's like, excuse me, can you sit down? And then she kept telling me stuff to do. Like, I took up my phone. She's like, excuse me, can you turn it off? I was like, okay, I can't even enjoy the show anymore, so I want to be for the talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Well, thank you for calling. What she was calling from. I don't know where she was going

[Angela Yee]

from, but she said she went to a Broadway play and she had. She lost something. She stood up and cut her flashlight on looking for it in the middle of the play.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Sit your ass down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You talking about ain't no kind depend what she dropped.

[Angela Yee]

I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It don't matter. For real. It depend what she dropped. Come on, though, y'.

[Angela Yee]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her medication or something. She needed it right then and there, cuz her sugar was spiking. I'm serious. I don't know what she. It might have. Must have been important.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, this is Alan. How's it going?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Alan? Where you calling from?

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, I'm calling from San Diego, but I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I was like, I'm a veteran.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, oh, you a veteran?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Don't ask, don't tell.

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, your Uncle Charlemagne, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, real quick. When are you doing another book signing? Because I need you to sign my books. Like you don't. Well, I'll be going no more. You just went.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I will be at the Black Podcast Festival In Atlanta, April 25 In Atlanta, Pullman Yards. You can bring any book you want

[Caller/Listener]

to be in Atlanta. You know, like, I'm trying to learn how to use the back door.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, teach them how to use the back door.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said he trying to learn how to use, like, trap.

[DJ Envy]

Don't hold us.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm not gonna hold you. Like, okay, so on iheartradio. I've been listening from, like, the first episode all the way forward. I'm on, like, year 2021 right now, and I love y', all, like, you feel me? Like, Uncle Charlemagne. You my uncle. I feel like I gotta chop it up with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm talking to celebrities right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, we're not celebrities. I'm your family brother.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, dude, but you should teach him how to get to the back donkey.

[Caller/Listener]

You know, like, it's like, I'm not gonna lie. I'll be hearing y' all stories and, like, how y', all, like, screwed up, but then you kept your family. Like, I'm like, dang. I'm trying to do that, and it's not working. I'm like, damn. I'm really like. I got out the Navy, like, mental stuff, like, crashing out on my family. I don't have nobody. I'm like, you know what? I'm going through, like, one of those little moments right now. I was like, let me just call the Breakfast Club. Second of all, the dude that's answering the phone, he mad cool. Take easy on him. Like, all right. He cool. Like, it's the people now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he got gay ears. So I'm sure that y' all probably. But listen, let me tell you something.

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, watch out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you have a therapist? Do you have a therapist? Do you have a counselor? Are you talking to somebody right now? I think that you need to be talking to somebody. Okay?

[Caller/Listener]

So, like, I had lost, like, my best friend to, like, suicide and stuff like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry to hear that.

[Caller/Listener]

So I've been, like, crashing out and all this. This. And, like, I say the most cautious things to push people away because I feel like I'm not worthy of, like, love and stuff. Like, I have to do with trauma. I read your book. You feel me? I read. I got all three. I had to rebuy him so I could get the hardcover.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate. I got you, all right? I think you lying. No, you're not. You're not. Listen, I appreciate it, brother. You're dealing with. You're dealing with grief right now, and you're dealing with trauma, and, you know, I don't want you to project that trauma on other people. So I. And I also want you to give yourself grief.

[Caller/Listener]

Projected it onto my daughter. I said some very, like, because at my age, I went through some trauma stuff, like at 10, like around 10, 11. And she hasn't been through none of that. And I feel like I'm the person that is putting her through it. I'm saying some. I see some mom stuff. I'm like, dang, let me call the rest of the club, see if they pick up. I've been close for two years, and yeah, I finally picked up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, let me tell you something. I'm gonna tell you why. You're gonna get through what you're going. What you're going through. You gonna get through what you're going through because you're aware of what it is that you're doing to people and you're actively trying to do something about it. Some people lack that self awareness. So, man, give yourself some grace, my brother.

[Angela Yee]

And you absolutely have, like, I feel

[Caller/Listener]

like we don't have any black leaders, like, right now. Currently, I've been, like, listening to, like, a lot of, like, what's going on. I feel like you are a solid black leader. So like us, there's like, you're very intelligent. You articulate your words even though you be sister, like, slurring up like a couple of times, like, damn.

[DJ Envy]

Like,

[Caller/Listener]

Envy, like, three years ago, he did some DJ event in Virginia, and I went to see him. I was like, I'm going to see DJ Envy. And he was playing the same mix in the club. I'm like,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

that sound about right?

[Caller/Listener]

No, I'm playing you. He was fired.

[Angela Yee]

He was fired.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Angela Yee]

Said you was fire.

[Caller/Listener]

But also, like, I also want to shout out my sister real quick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Caller/Listener]

She does like, so Brooklyn, you go look her up. She fire like, she has my home, like, like salon and stuff like that. You can check her out. So Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brooklyn on Instagram. Hey, man. Yeah, you keep doing the work, man. I'm rooting for you, my brother.

[Caller/Listener]

Real quick. Can I spit some bars real quick?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, please.

[Angela Yee]

Get it right now.

[Caller/Listener]

See what I was gonna say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just see a lot of them

[Caller/Listener]

be like, yo, let me spit some bars, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gotta go, man. This call was going, so I want you to ruin it by spitting. No, but thank you, man.

[Caller/Listener]

I know I'm not a rapper. I'm there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen. Black Effect Podcast Festival, April 25th in Atlanta, Georgia, my brother. We'll see you there. Thank you for calling. We do that every Friday it's the people's donkey. 1-800-585-1051. Or you can go to the iHeartRadio app. Go to the Breakfast Club page and click on the talkback app and send us a message.

[DJ Envy]

Well, when we come back, Tim Shriver will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tim Shriver is an activist. He's a film producer. He is the chairman of the Special Olympics since 1996. He is the founder of an organization called United States Knight. And he is also the nephew of President John F. Kennedy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Big resumes.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

My goodness. She's still drunk from last night. All right, we're gonna talk to Tim Shriver when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here with us as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed, we have.

[DJ Envy]

Tim Shriver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Welcome, guys.

[Tim Shriver]

Thank you. Nice to be here. Appreciate y' all having me tell them

[Charlamagne Tha God]

a little bit about who Tim Shriver is before we get started about why you're here.

[Tim Shriver]

Well, I grew up in a big family, a lot of politicians. I started my career teaching. I spent 15 years teaching in the New Haven public schools. Created a field called Social and Emotional Learning, looking at the mental health issues and the challenges a lot of kids face across all income, race, gender, all that kind of stuff. And spent the last 25 years in special Olympics working on disability healing, the gap between people who do and don't have intellectual developmental disabilities. In the last couple years, I've been trying to figure out there's a way to heal the gaps in our country.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're the chairman of the Special Olympics?

[Tim Shriver]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Yes. And Tim, Man. Tim has created a survey that tracks how we're treating each other in America called the Dignity Barometer.

[Tim Shriver]

Dignity Barometer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is that?

[Tim Shriver]

So the question, you know, Char, we've been asking, I think the country's been asking, is what's tearing us apart so badly? Why are we. We so angry? Why are we so anxious? Why are mental health problems growing? Why can't we talk about issues? Why can't we solve problems? Our view is that we sometimes, I diagnose the problem as we differ, come from different backgrounds. We don't think it's differences that are the problem. We think it's how we treat each other when we differ, which is a whole different set of questions. So we decided to measure how do Americans think about how they're treating one another? And that's the this is why we've. We launched this. This called the Dignity Barometer. And we think at the heart of figuring out how we get more justice, more joy, more progress as a country is figuring out ways to treat each other better. And that's what the survey tells us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This Survey said that 94 of Americans believe that all people deserve to be treated with dignity. So, so, so what can you.

[Tim Shriver]

Do you believe that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not gonna lie. Seem high, but who's gonna lie about that?

[Tim Shriver]

No, I know, but I mean, it's.

[Caller/Listener]

It is.

[Angela Yee]

I.

[Tim Shriver]

We were hoping we would get like 55% would say yes, because I was worried that when we asked that question, it was going to be like 40 or 30%. No, I don't think those people should be. I don't think, you know, Republicans or Democrats. I don't think people that come from New York or people that come from Mrs. Whatever, you know, I thought we were going to get a lot. 94%.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Tim Shriver]

That's an aspirational goal for us as a country. And what's equally interesting, I think, in the barometer is, is that they say this is just as important, almost as important as the economy. People say. I think the number is 80, 86% say the cost of living is. Is the most important issue. The next one is 83% say, you know, toxic. The toxic culture is the next most important issue. So it's, it's. It's a kitchen table. We call it a kitchen table issue. When you're talking about the price of legs, when you're talking about can you walk on a safe street, you're also talking about, do you trust your fellow Americans? That's important to people, and they see it as a crisis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what does that tell you about society? When you see 94% of Americans believe that people deserve to be treated with dignity, what does that tell you? Society wants.

[Tim Shriver]

It tells me that people are hungry for leadership. To show them how to do that, they will. Great. They rate the problem as coming from politics and the media, honestly. But they also realize they're not living up to their own aspirations. This is what was surprising. More than half Americans say, we're not doing this. You know, we want this, but we're not doing it. So it's a little bit like we're naming the problem as politics, you know, the algorithm and all that stuff, which is, you know, really problematic. But we're also naming a problem that we can each be a part of solving. I said, you know, the other day just came out of my mouth, not mo. Most of us can't solve the war in Iran, but we can solve the war at home. We can. That's within our power. We don't have to wait for the president, the senator, a governor, mayor, police, chief, superintendent of schools. We don't have to wait. I mean, if we had leadership from those people, it would be great. And we do have in some spots. But we, we can, we can, we can heal. This is, you know, you've, you've been talking for years now, now, Charlotte, about mental health and about the urgency of facing mental health issues. How do we build mental wealth? You find and you feel like you're treated with dignity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Tim Shriver]

That's where it starts. When your dignity is violated, how can you be healthy? How can you not resort to hostility and anger and violence? Our goal is to help people figure out how to find their own dignity and treat others with dignity. I think that would go a long way towards helping us get out of the mess we're in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've seen you say people who use this index like in politics. It won't. Let me get this straight.

[Fetty Wap]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Child pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance. Hard to believe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Michael, my nephew.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Please just tell me that you support me. Is he fine, though? Come on, baby.

[DJ Envy]

You can eat, pray and Love Me, Baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

State Farm is there, like, censor, like government, right? But how do you not censor? Like, looking at the people who lead our government in certain administrations or whatever, how do you not censor but also tell them to treat other people with dignity when a lot of what they're saying and doing is the opposite of Treating people with dignity.

[Tim Shriver]

Well, we're just trying to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like.

[Tim Shriver]

What I like to say is there's a new issue. So. So you. We might differ on what we should do on climate change. Right, you and I, but we can discuss. And you can say, well, on this. This moment, we should have done this, or we should be funding more for schools or whatever. On this issue, we should have discussions. Is it appropriate for the mayor, the governor, the president, the senator to speak this way? How do you defend using this much contempt, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Madam Senator, you know, Madam Governor, whatever it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like the second part of that. I don't like the first part because the first part is asking an answer. We know that isn't the way that they should be conducting themselves. I think the second part of. How do you. How do you contend? Like, what did you say?

[Tim Shriver]

Well, what I'm saying is. Here's the thing, Shar. Most people don't see their own contempt. You see the contempt in other people, but you don't see it in your. Like this woman said to me, I hate hateful people. But she didn't see it. She didn't see that she had begun what you hate. Yeah, that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did that last week in my therapist's office. I literally. I was literally was talking to my therapist about somebody that I was saying I hated, and I. I felt so bad because I couldn't believe I had gotten to that point.

[Tim Shriver]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? I felt like I hated this individual, but I didn't actually hate them. I hated what they represent.

[Tim Shriver]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The point is, like, I became what I. I became the energy. I didn't like you.

[Fetty Wap]

You.

[Tim Shriver]

We all do that and we. We get. But if we started to catch ourselves, challenge ourselves. We've seen this with, you know, like with Governor Cox, for instance, in Utah after the Charlie Kirk murder.

[Angela Yee]

Murder.

[Tim Shriver]

He really tried to treat the accused perpetrator, the victim, his family, the country, with a certain degree of dignity. He tried not to get trapped in the political vice. The same thing we've seen in other situations. We saw this in Mother Emanuel Church over a decade ago. People trying, in the face of violence, in the face of that kind of contemptuous action, hatred with a gun, to respond in some way that would allow us to see there's a way out of hatred. You don't have to return hatred.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With hatred, they forgive the, you know, the perpetrators of the crime. I often wonder about that. I often wonder if that is a real emotion or are they just doing that because they feel like that's what they need to do.

[Tim Shriver]

Well, I think in your heart, you know, we all know the difference.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We.

[Tim Shriver]

We lie sometimes when we say what we think people want to hear. But I think there's also real evidence that many people have been able to transform hate and turn it, you know, like Dr. King said, you know, the only thing that will, you know, defeat hate is love. And I think people understand at some level within themselves when they can find that it's not easy in the face of somebody treating you with contempt to return that contempt with, with your principles. But without hatred. I mean, our point here is don't, don't dim your principles. You know, don't, don't. Don't be a centrist on everything. Don't become, you know, like that. That's not the point of dignity. The point of dignity is to fight for your principles. We say add one when you're fighting for your principles, treat the person on the other side with dignity, and you will actually make a much better case for your principles when you don't treat the other person with contempt.

[DJ Envy]

In certain instances, I do believe that you can hate somebody. And I feel like, in my opinion, it'll be okay. Right. So I'll explain it like this. In certain cases, yeah, you could, you could dislike their policy. Right. You could dislike the things that they're doing. But if, if somebody comes into my house and kills my family, I'm gonna hate that individual. And I'm not on a healing journey to the point where I say, well, you know what? I'm gonna turn my other cheek or I'm going to forgive them. I don't think so. You know, and I see people do it all the time. I think majority is. Is. Is bull crap. Part of my friends.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think majority of biblical teachers, I

[DJ Envy]

think it's bull crap, in my opinion. And I also do think is some of it is. They do that because they feel like that's what they should do. But now do they believe it in their heart? I kind of find it hard to believe when you just took my whole family out, or you just did something to my child, or you just did something to my mother or father or, or when you see people in the church and somebody will come into church and just shoot the whole church up, it's difficult to believe that because I feel like it allows you to open that up for something like that to happen. Again, just my opinion, when it comes to quote, unquote, hate. Now, when things with politics and things like that, yeah, I feel like people dislike policies, but if you're a hateful person and a nasty person, in my opinion, me saying I hate that person, it's not the same as a person doing evil things. You just don't like the fact that that person is doing an evil job.

[Angela Yee]

Job.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I could hate the devil. Is that mad saying I hate the devil? You know, I mean, it's, it's so. I feel like when it comes to that type, there's certain things you, it's like, yeah, you can't experience. I can't give everybody grace.

[Tim Shriver]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

In my opinion, I'm not there yet. But you kill my family, I can't give you grace. I'm sorry. I'll holl at the big man when I get there, but I just can't.

[Tim Shriver]

Yeah, I hear you. I don't think it's always a fake. I don't think that's true.

[DJ Envy]

I say all the time. I think sometimes I do feel that way.

[Tim Shriver]

I think sometimes people aspire to be forgiving, even though in their hearts they aren't yet. And so they say they are in maybe in hopes of becoming what they. The words they use. Sometimes people just lie and say, I'm forgiving, and they harbor hatred and they don't care about the lie. But I think a lot of times people do move. I mean, I've seen in my own family, my own family, we've had, you know, we've. Violence has taken people from my family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, this is. Can I say who your uncle is?

[Tim Shriver]

Yeah, sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

John F. Kennedy. Yeah, of course. President Kennedy.

[Tim Shriver]

So, So I grew up in a situation where violence robbed us as children, of safety, of the health of our parents, of people we loved. And I, I, I've seen people struggle with that their whole life, you know, and I've seen people try to really hard to forgive so that they would be able to get the devil out from inside them. The anger, the hostility, the vitriol, the pain could be eased through the act of forgiveness. So sometimes, maybe it's not even selfish, it's not even selfless. It's selfish to forgive because that's where healing, I think, happens. But here's the thing. This is a conversation the country needs to be trying to have. I'm not here to tell you, like, I'm not a preacher. I'm not here to say this is the commandment. I'm here, I'm here to say I think we're seeing a new issue in the country and asking ourselves how we treat each other as an issue. I mean, what is you know, this is a conversation that has focused in many, many different moments in time on issues of race and culture and these kinds of things. What is racism if not institutionalized hatred?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For sure.

[Tim Shriver]

Okay. So it's an institutionalization of the humiliation and demeaning and hatred of a group of people. So, you know, if we want to end it, we have to end hatred. Because at the surface, at the heart of it is hatred. Hatred is a sense of superiority, is a sense of disdain for people that come from a different. Certain background or certain skin color. As crazy as it is, that's what we. That's. That's the reality. So I just want to. I. I want to talk systems. I want to talk housing. I want to talk healthcare. I want to talk education. That's my background. I want to talk all those things. I also want to talk about this as a country.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, let's go to. Before you go score this, right?

[Tim Shriver]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Bruce Brooks Potagaier. He's an. What's the word? Evangelical pastor.

[Tim Shriver]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who has been described as Pete Hegseth's closest spiritual advisor. He said this. He said, first and foremost, we pray that a man like this would be cut to the heart. He said he puts Talarico in the category of public enemies are those you are not called to love. This is where you have impregnory, impreg. Imprecatory storms. This is where you pray strongly. The psalmist is not shy. Die, God, destroy them, make them his dung on the ground. I pray that God kills him. Talking about James Talo, the pastor said, ultimately that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ. How do you rank that?

[Tim Shriver]

That's a one. That's as low as it gets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Zero. It's not a zero.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay?

[Tim Shriver]

That's the lowest it can go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your.

[Tim Shriver]

Your humanity has. Doesn't matter. You should be destroyed. So that's. That's. That's a one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One.

[Tim Shriver]

Now, if that guy was sitting here, he'd give you all the justifications for it, but it's still a one. And he would say something like, that guy started it. You know, that. That's dangerous. So, look, I think that's a one. All I can say is there's better ways to make that point. Whatever point he's trying to make, I. I assume he doesn't like Talarico.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because if you want somebody to die, what's the better way to say it? Oh, my God, you got a good revenue.

[Tim Shriver]

I wish you a beautiful afterlife

[State Farm Ad Voice]

in the.

[Fetty Wap]

In the.

[Tim Shriver]

In with the angels and the saints, you know, Dignity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Us, man. Thank you for joining.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much, gentlemen.

[Tim Shriver]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to past the O.

[Mimi Brown]

Dj.

[DJ Envy]

Dj.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Dj.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, dj. Come spin now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come spin. Nyla. Big Nyla. Nyla Simone. Sunny Brewster.

[Angela Yee]

Come on. I love this hair, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Young.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Young curls.

[DJ Envy]

Young curls.

[Mimi Brown]

We trying. We trying.

[DJ Envy]

What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Young.

[Angela Yee]

Just for me.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, all right.

[Angela Yee]

God damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On Wednesdays, we do pink oil moisturizer.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ.

[Nyla Simone]

All right, so my first record for today is gonna be from Flippity. I don't know if you guys seen, like, some of the noise online about her record Affirmations, but her project is dropped today. And the song that she got out that I really like is called again, Salute Flippity Man.

[Angela Yee]

I like the.

[Tim Shriver]

The.

[Fetty Wap]

The. The.

[Angela Yee]

The J Sample. Yeah, that was fire. I like how she chopped and screwed it. It was fire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She from Georgia, right?

[DJ Envy]

Memphis. It sound like.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. I don't you hear that Memphis sound like Memphis?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sound like Memphis.

[Angela Yee]

Especially on an Affirmations joint. I already knew she was from Memphis when I heard Affirmations.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

First song that went by real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I like Shorty.

[Nyla Simone]

Same, same.

[Angela Yee]

We.

[Nyla Simone]

We need those type of positive messaging with bangers, and her album just came out today, so make sure you guys tap in. She independent, she dope. She made positive music.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shout out to flipping team.

[Nyla Simone]

Next.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm going to get into this Tone

[Nyla Simone]

Stiff single that actually came out earlier this year, but it's been doing really, really well. Well, you know, Tone Stiff, R B guy from Jersey, and the record's called Fly.

[DJ Envy]

He sound good.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I do like that. I like that he sound like Justin Bieber a little bit.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

To be honest, I like this.

[Fetty Wap]

He sound good.

[DJ Envy]

He sound dope.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, very talented. Plays instruments, sings one of my favorites. And he had took, like, a hiatus from dropping, so he's back. That was his first single, and he got a project dropping in May.

[Mimi Brown]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's crazy? If. If that was Bruno Mars, that'd be a number one record.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, it would.

[Nyla Simone]

Facts, yo. Facts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Straight up.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That be a number one record.

[Nyla Simone]

Hey, man, this one I played for y'. All. This next one, Locks just dropped. And I think it's really cool that all the OGs are putting out music this year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, the game wouldn't be nothing without us, period. All the best concerts the last two years, the ones that selling Out. Two years easy call.

[Angela Yee]

Easy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The last two years easy. Why he always got a drag.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Easy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I be with him and then.

[Angela Yee]

Have you ever seen boys them in audition in concert?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Well, I. I mean, I have in my life. I have.

[Nyla Simone]

What you trying to say generation though, by the way.

[Angela Yee]

No, no, it was great.

[Fetty Wap]

Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, cuz you saying he said all the OGs. Those are the OGs.

[Tim Shriver]

That's.

[Angela Yee]

I understand. I was doing a Fat Joe envy.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, yeah, No, I was confused.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what he was doing.

[DJ Envy]

I was just asking. I was just confused.

[Nyla Simone]

All right, let's get into the Locks. New song. It's called Never Change. Featuring Jim and Trenton Shelton, of course.

[Angela Yee]

Jahim. Sounds good. 20, 30 years later, I know everybody

[DJ Envy]

sound good on that record. Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Locks ain't never missed, man. And it's so interesting that at 47 years old, I listen to the locks now. They make me want to do more pull ups. Make me want to pray more. They make me want to eat something healthy. They made me want to drink a fresh juice.

[DJ Envy]

Made me want to smoke, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Back in the day, they used to just make me want to stab you with something sharp.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? But you know how you see that they've evolved, so now we've all evolved with them.

[Nyla Simone]

Don't need to be J.

[DJ Envy]

Kiss Sheik Styles. Jaheim as well, too. The two.

[Fetty Wap]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Okay. They was three chill vibes.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll take it.

[Nyla Simone]

If you guys like those records, make sure you guys follow. It's the certified vibe on Instagram. Follow me too. N. Simone. What A Y. Not a I, N, Y, L, A S Y, M, O, N, E, E,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

E. What the hell did you just do just now. Abcd

[Nyla Simone]

Keep spelling my name.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nyla Simone.

[Nyla Simone]

S I, M, O, N, E. They give me plaque spelled S I, M, O, N, E. That's not my name. It's S Y, M O N, E,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

M, I. Crooked letter. Crooked letter.

[DJ Envy]

When we come back, we got the mix. We throw it back on a Friday, it's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes nine.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now it's Women's History Month. Who we repping today, Jess?

[Angela Yee]

Okay. Sister Mary Claire Clarence, played by Whoopi Goldberg from the movie Sister Act. She deserves honor for transforming a failing choir into a harmonious. Y' all heard that word? Harmonious. High performing group bringing joy and community engagement to a stagnant congregation. She bridged gaps between the church and the community empowered her fellow sisters and fostered confidence in the troubled youth. If y' all haven't seen that movie, y' all gotta watch it again. Both of them. 1 and 2.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

2.

[Angela Yee]

I think it's a 3, but 1 and 2. I also want to honor her empowerment of others. She helped individual sisters find their confidence, especially encouraging Sister Mary Roberts to find her own voice. Remember, that white lady didn't know that she could sing until she hit that note. So salute to Sister Marie Clarence from Sister Egg, y', all, because it's a lot of Sister Marie Clarence is out there.

[DJ Envy]

Need to breathe. Just breathe.

[Angela Yee]

I know it is. This is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, all right. Well, salute to all the women, the real women out there doing great things.

[Angela Yee]

All of us. All of them.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Even if your life was inspired by a movie, because a lot of us black women look at movies and be like, oh, my God, that's me. I see me in that role.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't believe that.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now, Jessica be in New Brunswick, New Jersey, this weekend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I am.

[Angela Yee]

I got two shows tonight at the Stress Factory, and I had two shows tomorrow, but now I got three. We added a 3:45pm show, so that's the early early show, though, since y' all sold out all the rest of the shows, I will be doing meet and greet. I will have merch on hand, y', all, so get your tickets. Also, Florida. I am coming there May 1, Fort Lauderdale, May 2, Orlando, and May 3, Tampa. So get your [e-mail] all right.

[DJ Envy]

And salute to everybody out in Middletown. I know they do that, that big R B day party on Sunday. I will be there for the RV Day party in Middletown, New York. It's about an hour drive out of New York City, so we there. So can't wait to see you guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, Charlemagne, listen, I want to tell y', all, make sure you go get your tickets for the fourth annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening in Atlanta, Georgia, April 25, hosted by DJ Envy and Lauren LaRosa. Some of your favorite podcasts gonna be on that stage. Grit Snakes Podcast with Deontay Kyle and Big Ice Cup Cat Jeff teague in the Club 520 podcast. Mona with Don't Call Me White Girl, Carlos King with Reality with the King, Crystal Renee Haslet with Keep It Positive, Sweet Sweetie and Damn Drink Champs with N O R E and DJ E fn Man. So make sure you go get your tickets right now. Black Effect.com podcast festival. Okay? Okay. And the positive note is simply this attitude, attitude, attitude, attitude, attitude is a choice, y', all, okay? Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. You. So choose wisely. I've been telling y' all that all week for a reason, okay? Somebody out there needs to know that the choices you make make you. Destiny's not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. Make the right choices. Y' all have a great day. Breakfast club. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

peace to the planet Charlemagne. Tha God here. And listen. We are back. The Black Effect Podcast Festival is back in Atlanta on April 25 at Pullman Yards, and the full lineup is nuts. We got the Grits and Age podcast, Deontay Kyle and Big Ice Cup Cat. We got Club 520 with Jeff Teague in the gang. Don't call me White Girl. Mona will be there. Keep it positive, sweetie. With Crystal Renee. We got Reality with the King with Carlos King. And yes, Drink champs will be in the building. Okay. Plus, you know we're gonna have a lot of guests, so you need to join us. And we got the Black Effect Mark Marketplace. Depict your podcast and everything you expect from the Black Effect Podcast Festival. Tickets are on sale right now. Go get [e-mail] podcast festival. Don't play yourself. Okay, pull up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then she says, have you seen a photo of my son?

[Caller/Listener]

And I'm like, who is this person?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Welcome to the Boys and Girls Podcast. Arranged marriage is basically a reality show, and you're auditioning for your soulmate. And who's judging? Judging only your entire family. I sacrificed myself to this ancient tradition, hoping to find love the right way. And instead, I found chaos, comedy, and a lot of cringe. Listen to boys and Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Tim Shriver]

I'm Daniel Alarcon, and this is my friend. He's much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm John Green, co host of the podcast podcast the Away End with my old friend Daniel on our podcast the Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things football, soccer is the most important. Listen to the Away End with Daniel Alarcon and John green on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

In the case of the Right Fit

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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