The Breakfast Club BEST OF - 2 Chainz Interview & Jess Hilarious Gives Co-Parenting Advice To Callers

Summary

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The Breakfast Club BEST OF: 2 Chainz Interview & Jess Hilarious' Co-Parenting Advice

Date: April 9, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa (occasional)
Special Guest: 2 Chainz
Key Segments: Listener call-ins, 2 Chainz exclusive interview, co-parenting Q&A with Jess Hilarious

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Episode Overview

This "Best Of" episode of The Breakfast Club features an in-depth interview with rapper and entrepreneur 2 Chainz, who discusses his new book "The Voice In My Head Is God," personal growth, legacy, spirituality, and business. The crew also hosts a special co-parenting advice segment with Jess Hilarious, offering candid guidance to callers facing family and parenting challenges.

The show, as ever, maintains its trademark mix of humor, real talk, and unfiltered listener engagement.

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Key Segments & Highlights

"Get It Off Your Chest" (03:10–10:24)

Listeners call in to share stories, promote positivity, and sometimes vent. Notable moments:

• Caller Rico calls out on-air banter about Lauren LaRosa's wigs (03:32):

  • DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious defend playful teasing; Lauren responds with, “That sounds like to me a defamation lawsuit” (04:36).

• A caller shoots his shot at Lauren (05:01–06:36):

  • DJ Envy and Jess check out the caller’s Instagram, joking about being "single and ready to mingle."
  • Jess: "I like the fact that he sent a message, and then he did a follow up phone call just to make sure you received said message." (06:38)

• Caller discusses mental health and the power of reaching out (08:04–09:44):

  • Jess Hilarious: "I got both, brother. I got a therapy and I got a spiritual leader...just try to find somebody who’s culturally competent...that you don't gotta explain things to." (09:08)
  • DJ Envy provides resources: "If you ever want to give therapy another shot, go to mentalwealthalliance.org..." (09:44)

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The "Work Wife/Work Husband" Debate (10:24–18:31, 17:24–17:31, recurring throughout)

Based on a passionate caller’s story of confronting her girlfriend's work wife, the team discusses boundaries in relationships and the meaning of titles like "work wife" or "work husband."

• Caller retells relationship drama around her girlfriend's "work wife":

  • "She turned her location off, and she left the crib. I dragged her through her AirPods...she had the shorty's house." (11:15)
  • “They told me they gonna call the cops. And I’m like, nah, y’all, you know?” (12:21)

• Hosts’ views on "Work Wives/Husbands":

  • Angela Yee: "I don’t think the label is going too far when you say wife and husband. You just can’t have a work friend?" (12:41)
  • Charlamagne: "Those are sacred titles, you know?...it applies other connotations." (13:11)
  • Jess: "If you can't tell your wife about it, you know, you ain't got no business doing it." (17:14)
  • Junior from Brooklyn: "As soon as you get a little attitude with me, she go to work...a shoulder to cry on becomes a meet to ride on." (14:15)

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Listener Callers: "Just Fix My Mess" (67:03–90:39)

Jess Hilarious holds a special Q&A handling tough co-parenting calls, providing blunt, empathetic, and at times hilarious advice.

1. Caller Danny – Wants to Reunite, But She’s “Finding Herself” (67:09–71:58)

• Situation: Danny's ex is focused on herself, partying—a pattern after their breakups. He’s struggling with rejection and co-parenting.
• Jess’s Advice:
  • "You got to do yourself and just be there for my kids as much as I can." (71:58)
  • "You need boundaries in place too. Like, look, you're not going to keep playing with me ... I'm not going to be here waiting like your doormat." (72:14)

2. Chantel – Multigenerational Household Drama (72:38–79:23)

• Situation: Four kids, three fathers, living with her mother and grandmother, whose methods conflict with her relatively lenient parenting.
• Jess and Envy’s Real Talk:
  • "Complaining in somebody house is insane." (76:51)
  • “They lead in that village. Even though you are paying to stay there...you are right when you say, guys, don't...they do have a choice.” (77:19)
  • Jess and Envy: “Condoms. Condoms. ... They come loose!” (78:00)

3. Mariah – No-Nonsense Co-Parenting Boundaries (83:59–90:39)

• Situation: Doesn’t want small talk with her child’s father because of hurt over past behaviors—he didn’t support her during pregnancy.
• Jess’s Advice:
  • "You can't make him only speak to you about your baby girl. That's what it is. You just have to be on your big ignore game." (88:56)
  • "Just don’t respond unless it’s about your child ..." (89:00)
  • “You can only control you, boo.” (90:28)

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FEATURED INTERVIEW: 2 Chainz (28:16–54:55)

On His Book "The Voice in My Head Is God"

• Why Write the Book?

  • 2 Chainz: "Success without reflection is just noise. Success without giving back is noise. So, I'm feeling successful...then it's time to write a book in my personal opinion." (29:42)
  • Focuses thematically on growth, intuition, God, and legacy.

• Breakthroughs in Fatherhood and Vulnerability:

  • On generations of father-son relationships and breaking cycles of emotional toughness:
    • "I think I broke that that way of thinking. ... If my son needs to cry...I'm not getting all over him about it." (31:23)
  • Moving, detailed story about reconnecting with his father after prison, caring for him as he grew ill, and being present at his passing:
    • "He don’t want to be handcuffed no more." (35:53)
    • "Is it traumatic seeing your father pass? It could be, yeah." (38:12)

• Spiritual Encounters & The Supernatural:

  • Shares a striking story about a security camera image appearing to show his late father during his son’s birth:
    • "When we looked at the motion, you can see somebody...It was my father." (39:13)
    • "…That's my personal opinion. He's so sarcastic that when I used to try to show people, I could not find a picture. ... He got me looking crazy here." (41:55)
  • Framing intuition as the voice of God: "That something told me thing…is that voice. ... I had to give credit to somebody higher than myself." (44:18)

• Notable Quotes & Moments:

  • "If that voice in your head told you to walk away from rap tomorrow, would you listen?" – Jess Hilarious
    • 2 Chainz: "If I heard him as clear as you saying it, yeah, I probably would..." (46:50)
  • Discusses his late nights and creative process: "From 12 to 6 is really, really my time. Really me time." (49:01)
  • "Collaboration is a good thing, not only in music, but in business too.” (54:12)
  • Charlemagne (to 2 Chainz): “The book is out today. Make sure you pick it up.” (50:52)

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Donkey of the Day (59:05–66:49)

• Charlamagne chronicles the story of a Florida man, Darius Davis, who physically attacked his barber over a messed-up hairline.
• Staple tongue-in-cheek riffs on Black masculinity, hairlines, and barbers’ crucial role in the community:
  • "Barbers should be given the utmost respect at all times. Unless...they are a terrible barber." (62:08)
• Jokes about celebrity baldness (Miguel, Steve Harvey, LeBron).
• Angela Yee: “You don't have to be rude. You can just say, respectfully, we're not going there.” (89:56 — co-parenting segment, but fits the tone)

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Notable Quotes & Funny Moments

• Jess Hilarious: "If you can't tell your wife about it, you know, you ain't got no business doing it." (17:14)
• Charlamagne: "A shoulder to cry on becomes a meet to ride on. Damn, you're right." (14:15)
• Lauren LaRosa (on a caller sliding into DMs): "He does the Electric Slide, for sure." (06:57)
• DJ Envy: "Complaining in somebody house is insane." (76:51)
• On perseverance and self-acceptance, Jess Hilarious closes: "Stop hating yourself for everything you aren't and start loving yourself for everything that you are." (92:17)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• "Get It Off Your Chest": 03:10–10:24
• "Work Wife/Work Husband" debate: 10:24–18:31; revisit 17:24–17:31
• 2 Chainz Interview: 28:16–54:55
• Co-Parenting Call-In Segment: 67:03–90:39
• Donkey of the Day (Barber story): 59:05–66:49

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Conclusion

This essential "Best Of" episode captures The Breakfast Club’s unique blend of humor, raw honesty, unfiltered cultural commentary, and real-life advice. 2 Chainz offers a vulnerable and enlightening look at his journey, making a strong case for reflection, faith, and intuition, while Jess Hilarious brings grounded, relatable advice to listeners navigating modern family structures.

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Memorable Closing Note:

“Stop hating yourself for everything you aren't and start loving yourself for everything that you are.”
– Jess Hilarious (92:17)

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Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Just Hilarious]

Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartradio. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Caller/Guest]

Wake. Wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Just Hilarious]

to get up and get something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call up now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

This is Rico.

[DJ Envy]

Rico, what up? Get it off your chest, Rico.

[Caller/Guest]

All right, so look, I was checking out John Hope Bryant podcast money and wealth legend. And I hear. Yes, yes. Can I. Can we get a drum bomb drop for John Hope?

[Just Hilarious]

Brian, Drop on the clues bombs for John Hope Bryant money and wealth podcast available on The Black Attack iHeartradio podcast network anywhere you listen to podcasts?

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, sir. But anyway, I was listening to the podcast and Charlamagne, your ad popped up and I hear in a new wig for Lauren Laro. And why are you always on Lauren head, man? It's crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

First of all, first of all, I'm not, I'm not always on Lauren's head. It's. It's bad wigs that are always on Lauren's head. And it's an ad for Amazon and, and I'm just talking about products like I'm talking about products you can get at a, at a, a discounted price on Amazon. And I just, I don't even know

[Lauren LaRosa]

why you would put my wig and discounted price in Amazon. Because I want sentence.

[Caller/Guest]

Don't worry. Why you gotta do that Lauren all the time, man? It's crazy. Lauren, you gotta start shooting back, baby.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, thank you.

[DJ Envy]

So there's a promo running around with him talking about your wig and that you get it off at Amazon you

[Lauren LaRosa]

know, that sounds like to me a defamation lawsuit. Defamation?

[Caller/Guest]

It's crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

Listen, I'll win that case so easily when we go to court and they see your wig.

[Caller/Guest]

Stop playing with my honor.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Your Honor, Mahogany in here now. And she is that girl. Stop playing with her.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[Just Hilarious]

Who's this?

[Angela Yee]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, what up, man?

[Caller/Guest]

This out of Houston, Texas.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Jamal, you called at the perfect time because somebody needs some confidence. Go, Jamal.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, gosh.

[Caller/Guest]

Bad, bad. I called Lauren the Rosa. Check your dms. All right, I'm in there, baby girl. I'm single, ready to mingle. I hope you are, too.

[DJ Envy]

All right, he's single, ready to mingle. What's your Instagram? So she can see what you look like?

[Caller/Guest]

Fnore bond. B, O, N, D, S. Look it up.

[Just Hilarious]

Now, how old are you? Using phrases like single, ready to mingle.

[Caller/Guest]

Don't worry. Look, I've been wanting to tell you about yourself for a long time, all right? But I'm using my time right now for her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, get him, babe.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead, get him, babe.

[Caller/Guest]

Now he baby nothing. Drake ain't lose nothing. Drake ain't lose nothing, all right?

[Just Hilarious]

I know Drake lost a lot of sleep for the last year and some change, okay?

[Caller/Guest]

No, he didn't. No, he didn't.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm not arguing with you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, she's looking you up

[Just Hilarious]

because you found it.

[Caller/Guest]

I don't.

[DJ Envy]

She don't see it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You better say Instagram. F ing.

[Caller/Guest]

What? F, N, Underscore bonds.

[DJ Envy]

B, O, N, D, S. F, N. Underscore bonds.

[Caller/Guest]

Fn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I can't see anything. He has like.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he's private.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Private page.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he's a private page.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

Hold on.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, genius.

[DJ Envy]

He about to make it unprivate for you right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He about to make it unprivate you

[Lauren LaRosa]

DM me on Friday at 6:36am on Friday.

[DJ Envy]

What he said?

[Caller/Guest]

What he said?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said, when you gonna give up this single? What he basically said, when I'm coming home.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, when you come home.

[Just Hilarious]

This might be your future husband and you putting his business out there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My bad.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we'll see, we'll see. We gotta analyze you make sure you're

[Lauren LaRosa]

not calling the radio station telling me to check the dm. You know, the listeners want to hear what you had to say.

[DJ Envy]

We gotta make sure you got a job and all that.

[Caller/Guest]

All right, bet.

[DJ Envy]

All right, man.

[Just Hilarious]

I like the energy. I like the fact that he sent a message, but then he did a follow up phone call just to make sure you received said message. And he's willing to put him out there over the air for everybody to express his. His desires for you. Lord, I respect that.

[DJ Envy]

I don't like the single. Ready to mingle like that. Seemed like he really outaged.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He does the Electric Slide, for sure.

[Angela Yee]

He definitely does the electric Sleep on

[Lauren LaRosa]

it without the clap.

[Just Hilarious]

First of all, the Electric Slide is not an age thing. You too should know the Electric Slide if you are black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I do it, but y' all were doing it before. They start doing that extra clap clap when they bend over. That's a different age of the Electric Slide, 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.

[Caller/Guest]

Yo, Charlemagne, Envy, what up? Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Caller/Guest]

I got an indoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Caller/Guest]

We can get on the phone right now. Here. Tell you what it is.

[Just Hilarious]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

This is Damien calling out of Pennsylvania.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Damon from Pennsylvania. Get it off your chest, Damon.

[Caller/Guest]

Good morning to y'. All. DJ Envy, Charlemagne, and just hilarious.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning, Damon.

[Caller/Guest]

I just want to give a shout out to my kids, Brayden, his kids. I just want to give a shout out to my kids, Jalen Mann, Brayden Man. And Maya Faith, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Salute to those beautiful children, brother.

[Caller/Guest]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good one.

[Caller/Guest]

You too.

[DJ Envy]

Alrighty now. Hello. Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, how's it going, Don?

[DJ Envy]

What up? Get it off your chest, Don.

[Caller/Guest]

First one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to say good morning, y'.

[Caller/Guest]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is my first time.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Caller/Guest]

Good morning. Morning. I'm from Florida, and I just want to get off my chest that, you know, it's been hard lately trying to be happy and go. I used to have a lot of suicidal thoughts and a lot of depression going on, and I had to confront it recently before it got worse. And honestly, it's been a great journey that I've ever since confronting it. And I just want to tell everybody, just. Just take that first step. Don't. Don't wallow in your depression and anger. Talk to somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No matter who it is, just talk to somebody.

[Just Hilarious]

I totally agree.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Did you talk to a therapist or pastor or. Who did you.

[Just Hilarious]

I did have.

[Caller/Guest]

I did have a therapist for a little bit, but it just wasn't for me, it wasn't working. I didn't think we were getting anywhere, so I had to talk to a mentor of mine, a spiritual mentor that I had. Okay. And she actually gave me some clarity.

[Just Hilarious]

You know, I got both, brother. I got a therapy and I got a spiritual leader. You know, sometimes you just gotta find a mentally competent therapist. I mean, therapy, Therapy isn't for everybody, but, you know, I think you should probably give it another shot. Just try to find somebody who's culturally competent, man, that actually, that you don't gotta explain things to.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, I agree with that. I just know I, I didn't feel like wanted to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't, I don't want to go

[Caller/Guest]

searching anymore down that route. I wanted to go back to the root and. Which is me dealing with my, My spirituality.

[Just Hilarious]

I love that. You know, I, I, hey, I believe in God and therapy. That's what I say all the time.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right, brother. Well, I'm glad you're doing better, brother.

[Just Hilarious]

And if you, look, if you, if you want, if you ever want to give therapy another shot, go to mentalwealth alliance.org man, and, and go to. Okay, go to the contact Us segment on mentalwealth alliance.org and, and somebody will, will get back to you. Tell them exactly what you're looking for. I'm saying I'm looking for a culturally competent therapist. That's it.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay. All right. I'll give that a shot.

[DJ Envy]

All right, brother. Have a good one, man.

[Caller/Guest]

All right, you too.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about a call that called in yesterday during. Get it off your chest. She was a big stud, and she was mad that her girlfriend.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't like how you said that. Don't disrespect the stud community like that. That was a. He was a big stud. How you know she was a big stud?

[DJ Envy]

Like big stud energy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You mean like big.

[Just Hilarious]

Like notorious big kind of Big stud energy. Big energy.

[DJ Envy]

Big energy.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay. Like, she was like big stud. Big D energy. Yeah, yeah, I get what you're saying. She had big energy is what you're saying.

[DJ Envy]

I would have said big dildo energy.

[Caller/Guest]

Damn, I like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that.

[Caller/Guest]

I like that. I like that.

[Just Hilarious]

Big vibrator energy. I like that. Sound like somebody getting electrocuted when she pull that thing out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dam.

[Just Hilarious]

Say damn. That's. You went too far.

[DJ Envy]

See?

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Just Hilarious]

You always gotta go to hell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Play too much. All right. Let's listen to the call.

[Caller/Guest]

So I have a girlfriend that I've been with for a year and a half. So we live together. We got a cat, you know, real lesbian. Yes. Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Three cats in the house.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to us.

[Caller/Guest]

So she's a nurse. She's telling me a few months ago, she started getting close with some girl at work. The girl is her work wife. I tell her to nip it in the bud. She don't do it. Then I go through her phone on Christmas day. I see her texting with the girl, and the girl's talking like, what you wearing? I can't wait to see you type. Today we had a big fight. She turned her location off, and she left the crib. I dragged her through her AirPods. My dude, wow. He had the shorty's house, yo.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn crazy.

[Caller/Guest]

I pulled up to the crib. I said, come outside. She said, you in the wrong place. I'm not here. I knock on the front door.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not here.

[Caller/Guest]

They told me they gonna call the cops. And I'm like, nah, y', all, you know?

[DJ Envy]

All right, so we're asking 800-585-1051. Do you mind if your significant other has a house? I said a house, A work wife, work husband.

[Just Hilarious]

No, I want the record to show what a normal show would have just said. Do you mind if your significant other has a work wife or work husband? Actually, the stud lesbian aspect of it has nothing to do with any of it.

[DJ Envy]

But that's where the conversation started from.

[Just Hilarious]

But that's where the conversation started from. Nothing to do with it.

[DJ Envy]

I like that call.

[Angela Yee]

I thought it was an interesting story too. It was an interesting story.

[DJ Envy]

But that's where the call came from. She said she doesn't want her wife to have her girlfriend to have that.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So let's start with you.

[DJ Envy]

Would you mind if Chris had a work wife?

[Angela Yee]

Yes, I absolutely would. Would mind. Like, I. I don't think the. The label is going too far when you say wife and husband.

[DJ Envy]

Why?

[Angela Yee]

You just can't have a work friend. You know what I'm saying? Or a co worker that you really cool with. Like, why does it have to be. Why does the term have to be work wife, work husband? I don't think it's appropriate. I don't like it sometimes.

[Caller/Guest]

Now.

[Angela Yee]

Now, a lot of times it is platonic. You know what I mean? But a lot of times it's not right, so. And you never know.

[DJ Envy]

I want you. Nah, nah. Either we all friends or we not friends.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. Like, nah, nah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlemagne.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like the term. Like, just said, like, you shouldn't be calling nobody else your husband. You shouldn't be calling nobody else your wife. You know, those are, like, sacred titles, you know? I mean, those are titles that you earn. And, you know, you can't just be calling nobody your work husband. And to me, it. Like it said, it applies other connotations.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Caller/Guest]

You know what I'm saying?

[Just Hilarious]

Like, why does that got to be your work husband?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

A work wife. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

No, I don't like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like the term.

[Just Hilarious]

That was funny. Me and Envy do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

I'd be like, that's my work husband. But that's Right. That's a joke.

[Angela Yee]

Exactly. Wives know each other, you know, Y' all wives know.

[DJ Envy]

He played too much, though. Like, he played when we outside. We. When we outside of work, he's still playing. I don't want to play.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, that's because the streets know the streets. The streets know you my work bottom. You're actually my work bottom. That's the way I look at it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy]

See? Going too far.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello.

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

Peace is Junior from Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Junior from Brooklyn. What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Talk to us. Yeah. What's your thoughts?

[Caller/Guest]

What's going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My thoughts is ain't no work wives, Ain't no work husbands.

[Caller/Guest]

You know, I mean, because, you know, as soon as you get a little attitude with me, she go to work,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

talk about, you know, oh, he not doing me right. Next thing you know, a shoulder to cry on. Become a meet the right. Damn, you're right.

[Angela Yee]

That's right.

[Just Hilarious]

And I ain't gonna front, man. Something happened on my algorithm one day where I clicked on one video, and then I just went down a whole thing of videos where it's these girls talking about, this is how you take care of your friend. And it's like, girls giving guys information.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, hell, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's like, but this got to work from home.

[Just Hilarious]

She can't rock with me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Matter of fact, Amazon got to leave a package on the steps. Don't even ring the bell. Damn. Thank you, brother. Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, this is Nardo. Shout out to Georgia, man.

[DJ Envy]

Nardo, what's up? Talk to us. What's your thoughts?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, man, good morning to y', all, man. I listen to y' all later this morning. I want to start that off.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes. Yes, sir. But, yeah, I think these days now, being in a relationship, when you with a person and they're at a. At a job site, and they would. They see this work for 9, 10, 12 hours out the day, you know, they tend to go on lunch dates, and, you know, that's. That's gonna happen. And I think, you know, you just gotta either accept it or leave it, because really, that's what goes on.

[DJ Envy]

Do you have a work wife, bro?

[Caller/Guest]

No, I drive trucks, brother. I just started my own business. Cooler. Woolley Express, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

You gotta. You gotta work lot Lizard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no.

[Just Hilarious]

It's that one rest stop on the route you be going.

[Angela Yee]

Leave that man alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a dope.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Caller/Guest]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Dion. What's up, brother? Talk to us. What's your thoughts?

[Caller/Guest]

All right. Good morning. First of all, I love all of y'. All. Everything y' all do. I think y' all are amazing.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you. Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Just Hilarious]

We appreciate you, man. Thank you.

[Caller/Guest]

But another thing, I think the girl was insane for telling her girlfriend she got a work wife. Yeah, I think that. Yeah, you gotta keep that to yourself. I've had plenty of work wife. That didn't lead to nothing at all. But it ain't like I told my girl that, like, I just kept it. To me, it's, we just getting coffee and doing stuff like that. We ain't doing nothing crazy.

[Angela Yee]

Now, that's the thing. That's the reason why I thought it wasn't crazy that she told her girlfriend that she had a work wife. What made it crazy is that you really effing with your work wife. Like, y' all getting intimate, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Angela Yee]

Y' all flirting and dealing with each other. She went in the phone, saw messages, and she cheat. She was cheating on her girlfriend with her work wife. That's where it went wrong. It got crazy.

[Caller/Guest]

That's a whole nother conversation, specifically. Hey, you know. You know what I'm saying that you can keep it to yourself, Chia. You always home for that. I can't never vouch for that.

[DJ Envy]

Now, Dion, answer, answer, answer. The right. The real way, right? Have you ever flirted with your work wife?

[Caller/Guest]

I mean, of course. That's why. It's my work life, but it ain't. Nothing happened.

[Just Hilarious]

No, but, see, you shouldn't be flirting. See, you know, your wife would not allow you to be flirting. Would you tell your wife you was flirting with your work wife?

[Caller/Guest]

Of course not. That's why you don't say nothing. See, that's why you don't say that.

[Just Hilarious]

No, you don't listen, my rule is you don't do nothing. You can't tell your wife about it.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Just Hilarious]

If you can't tell your wife about it, you know, you ain't got no business doing it.

[DJ Envy]

Now, if you're just joining us, this conversation actually came from a woman who called yesterday during. Get it off your chest. Let's listen to the call.

[Caller/Guest]

So I have a girlfriend that I've been with for a year and a half. We live together. We got a cat, you know, real lesbian.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Three cats in the house.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to us.

[Caller/Guest]

So she's a nurse. She's telling me a few months ago, she started getting close with some girl at work. The girl is her work wife. I tell her to nip it in the bud. She don't do it. Then I go through her phone on Christmas day. I see her texting with the girl, and the girl's talking like, what you wearing? I can't wait to see you type sh. T. Today we had a big fight. She turned her location off, and she left the crib. I dragged her through her ear pods, my dude. Wow. She at the shorty's house.

[Angela Yee]

Yo.

[Caller/Guest]

Damn Crazy pulled up to the crib. I said, come outside. She said, you in the wrong place. I'm not here. I knock on the front door.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not here.

[Caller/Guest]

They told me they gonna call the cops. And I'm like, nah, y', all, you know?

[DJ Envy]

So we're asking 800-585-1051. Do you mind if your significant other has a work husband or work wife?

[Just Hilarious]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, this Juicy.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Juicy.

[Angela Yee]

She definitely somebody.

[Just Hilarious]

You fat.

[Caller/Guest]

I'm. I'm. I'm.

[Just Hilarious]

How tall are you?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Angela Yee]

Stop.

[Caller/Guest]

I'm five three.

[Just Hilarious]

How much you weigh?

[Caller/Guest]

200 pounds. But I'm juicy, so. Man. Okay, answer this question.

[DJ Envy]

Answer the question.

[Just Hilarious]

Mom.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry.

[Just Hilarious]

Are you somebody's work wife?

[Caller/Guest]

She is. Oh, I'm the. I'm somebody who caught my work wife. Happy?

[DJ Envy]

I want to say.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah. So my. My husband worked somewhere, right? We used to work together. I quit. So I found, like, placement that didn't work out. So, you know, because I know, like, I know how the work wife and stuff is. My husband don't drive. I was taking him to work, and at the same time, I was taking him to work. The work wife, she got a husband too. But I didn't know this at the time because she just started. So when I was leaving, I see her husband, like, mean mugging the mess out of my mind. So I wanted to be like, what's up? Why are you looking at him like that? Like. Cause like, it was something that didn't sit right with me. So I made a mental note of it. So the next time I went, it was. She wasn't with her husband. She was by herself. So she was looking at my car. My dude, I got real dark tent, so you can't see in there. I can see her. She can't see me. So she just looking ugly as hell at the car. But I'm like, damn stuff.

[Just Hilarious]

So hold on now. What kind of car do you have? First of all, what kind of car do you have? You know, it's big.

[Caller/Guest]

It's a truck. I'm riding good. It's a BMW. It's for 10 and windows, but it is small.

[Just Hilarious]

It's a 6x6. That's a big one. That's a big one.

[Caller/Guest]

She was the guy.

[Angela Yee]

She got in there.

[DJ Envy]

It's a big truck. It's considered an suv.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay. Okay, Gotcha.

[DJ Envy]

He wanted to make sure it wasn't the one series. Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go.

[Caller/Guest]

So, okay, so long story short, fast forward. The way she looked at me, I said, oh. I said, let me go through this phone. Because I. I go through the phone, like maybe every six or seven months, depending on how I feel. Like I just go through the phone. I normally don't be finding nothing, but. So I go right to her. I called it the same day. Only thing I'm mad because I want to talk, see how far I was gonna go because I feel like I stopped it because I. I crashed out lightway. Because when I went through the phone and went through their messages, first it was like regular little work stuff. So then I started seeing emotion. He kind of corny, so I know that's his way of flirting. So like. But he talked a lot. So. So she gonna send a picture. She sent three pictures. And they said. And they was like sexy pictures, but she weak. She, she, she. They was like some sexy pictures. Talking about some.

[Just Hilarious]

Ma', Am, ma', am, ma', am, ma', am, ma'. Am, I need to tell you something that they don't tell you at dinner. Stop. Well, you're going too long. Could you get to the point, please? What are you.

[Caller/Guest]

You can't make a long story short.

[Just Hilarious]

You said you won't make a long story short.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay, so. Okay, so I tried to. She don't work there no more. I beat the. Out of him. Out his sleep because I told him to do this. I Told him to do this. The thing was, he tried to be sneaky. And they tell me, like, oh, he ain't tell me, you know what I caught? If he would have been like, oh, man. Now she biting back on what you told me to do. All the reason I told him to flirt with her so she can work for him. And he don't have. So he can still be on the phone.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't like any of this. You opened up the door. You know what I mean? And I don't know why you opened up Pandora's box like that. I do not know why you did that.

[Angela Yee]

That's her husband. She sense something.

[Just Hilarious]

But you gonna beat him up for telling him to do something that you told him to flirt too far, and then you beat him up.

[DJ Envy]

What size was the girl?

[Caller/Guest]

She. Man, I'm old enough to be her mama. And I. And I. And that's her thing. She like, ain't you 50? And. But if we stand next to each other, you will be trying to figure out who. 50. Like, she. You know, she start. My thing is that he didn't tell me what she did. Like, I. I expect. Respect everything that she did that she was going to do okay, But I had to. I had to go through the phone and find it. He said he was lying about it. Said he, like, no. Like, don't. What. What is you lying for?

[Just Hilarious]

I don't. Because you just as messy, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You caught.

[Just Hilarious]

You caused a lot of this mess. You told that man to flirt with that woman, and there's no limit to flirting. Did you say. Did you. Did you give him a limit?

[Caller/Guest]

Right? But he was supposed to tell yes. And then it was like, if she bite back, you let me know, like, gotcha. And then. But he didn't. And then when I asked him, like, I tried to wake him up, but he. I tried to wake him up, but he tried to fake sleep when I had that phone in his face. Like, I end up facetiming her.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Mom.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, it was a lot.

[Just Hilarious]

You are so messy. Juicy.

[DJ Envy]

So messy.

[Just Hilarious]

I mean, Juicy. You are so messy.

[Caller/Guest]

I'm glad I ain't tell y' all my real name, but. Yeah, okay. Hey, Jess. Hey. I really did your nails when you was in Cleveland.

[Just Hilarious]

Also, that wasn't your real name, so you picked a. You picked a song by Biggie Smalls on purpose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Caller/Guest]

Wow.

[Angela Yee]

You're an idiot.

[Just Hilarious]

She's an idiot.

[Caller/Guest]

Charlie. Man, you at the corn bar?

[Angela Yee]

Matter of fact, no, she didn't.

[Caller/Guest]

Ma'.

[DJ Envy]

Am. You know, we have call IDs the Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

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[DJ Envy]

What up, everybody? It's DJ Emmy from the Breakfast Club. Now you know me and my wife, married 24 years and together over 30. And yes, we still speak on the phone every day. I mean, the early days, I didn't have a cellphone. I couldn't afford a cell phone. And the cell phones were like the size of a. A man's purse. But anyway, I love speaking to my wife over the phone. People say we talk too much, but that's my best friend. Why shouldn't we be able to talk all the time? All day long? 24, 7. But did you know that 2026 will mark the 150th anniversary of the first ever phone call. It took place March 10, 1876. And that call sparked it all. For the first long distant phone lines. The first lines across America. The first line across the Atlantic. The first round the world called. The first commercial cell Service. The first 911 system. AT&T has been connecting people for 150 years in so many different ways. Thank God we have cell phones. I can connect to my moms, my pops, and my whole family. Thank you. AT&T.

[Angela Yee]

Connecting changes everything. AT&T.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This past weekend, like every other Sunday, you were on the court with the guys playing ball. Just a pickup game, living out your hoop dreams. No triple doubles, but a mean set of threes in between buckets. One of the homies mentions he closed on a new crib. This is big. And while everyone's asking about the housewarming and making plans to celebrate, you're asking the real questions. Like has he spoke to his State Farm agent yet about coverage? See, home ownership is one thing, but the right coverage is the real game changer. Even more than your last hot streak is how you protect your legacy. Dropping buckets and bars on the court. A State Farm Agent can more than assist you with finding the right coverage for your new place. If you have a claim, your local agent can help you file it. Yep, that's right. Over the phone, in person, online, or on the app, they're ready to help you and they don't drop the ball, if you know what I mean. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Just Hilarious]

Morning everybody.

[DJ Envy]

Is DJ Envy? Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well. We got a special guests in the building.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, brother?

[Angela Yee]

How you feeling?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How y' all doing? Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

You and the family came ready to be cold.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, you was just waiting on your little. I'm just saying, cuz I watched the other interview. You couldn't get one in, right? He was so serious the whole time.

[Angela Yee]

So, you know, it's hard, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. I rock with your foolishness.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I mean, yeah, we. We were. We just left an AAU circuit with my son and we was in Cincinnati and they said it was going to be cold there, but it wasn't freezing. But when we came to New York it was cold.

[DJ Envy]

Today's the only day too cuz the rest of the week we getting like 60, 70 degrees. So today is the only day you can wear that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God bless you, cuz. It's cold, it's cold, it's cold, it's cold in my room. It's cold.

[Just Hilarious]

New book, the voice in my head is God. I want to ask what was the intention behind the outfit this morning? Cuz in the Bury Me Inside the Louis Store chapter you say every outfit has an intention. So what's, what's the energy other than it was cold?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the energy today. And it's like, where else can you wear like the hat? And you know, I can't get this off in Atlanta, so this would be the place. And I don't live in Canada, so this would be the place.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The voice in your head said, get that off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take on a rock. This telling you, man, the voice in

[DJ Envy]

my head is God. New book that's out today. Make sure you go get it if you haven't got it yet. Why was it the time to write this book?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just think that success without reflection is just noise. You know what I'm saying? Success without giving back is noise. So I'm feeling successful. I think when you live long enough to experience scars, when you've won enough to have the wisdom, you know, then it's time to write a book, in my personal opinion. So growth, maturation. Me, you know, talking about God in this book through my personal experiences, you know, I just felt like after you do. For me, I've done the albums, I've shot my short film, and I'm just ready to take more creative risks. And so this doesn't feel like a risk because I feel like this could motivate someone, this could help someone. It's not generic, it's not cliche. I hadn't seen any other artists talk about, you know, intuition in the book space. So just some of the biggest thing.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody takes a different part of what they feel that they get out of the book, Right. For myself is your relationship with your dad. And the reason I say that is I have six kids and I'm always very intentional what I say to my kids, right. Cause there's a line between being a dad and then there's a line with being a human being. Right. And I'll explain. So with that Relationship with your dad was there. I know your dad moved in with you. Were those tough conversations to have from the start, him being incarcerated to even at one time? When you got into that incident in Alabama and your dad said, well, go get a gun and go handle it yourself, how were those conversations had? Because I'm sure you wouldn't tell your kids that same thing. Or would you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a good question. You know, I think everybody in here have lived through different eras. And, you know, I'm from the boys don't cry era, you know what I'm saying? I'm from the that's weak, that's soft. My dad would say numerous amount of times that he don't think a woman could raise a man, but he. He wouldn't be there, you know what I'm saying? And I turned out to be. I mean, I can't change oil, change tires and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying? Like, somebody might consider some man stuff, but I've cut the grass and done stuff like that, as y' all know, recently. So, I mean, when I think about it, it's like he wasn't there to teach me certain things that a man should know. And I learned a lot of things on my own. And, you know, he was my first hero. He's my first somebody you look up to. Whether he was incarcerated or just me hearing stories about him and me just realizing that that DNA is inside of me. So when I passed that on, I think I broke that. That way of thinking, I think it stopped with me. You know, I'm not lenient to why I'm like, man, you can cry anytime you want. But if my son needs to cry about something that's bothering him or hurting, I'm not, like, getting all over him about it. So I think it's just timing and where we are in life right now. I don't know how you are with your kids, but I'm a little bit more sensitive to my kids than my father was to me because he wanted me to be tough. He didn't. I hear stories my aunts tell me. Like, if I would cry, he didn't want nobody to pick me up. I don't have, like, it's some baby pictures, but, like, all my baby pictures, I'm sitting somewhere, my momma beside me. She not, like, holding, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, one of the pictures I remember is, like, at a beach. I'm sitting on the hood of a car. I'm a baby. I'm like, not even one. And my mom got on a bathing suit. She right beside me. But it's not really like a picture of someone coddling or anything, but, I mean, I'm okay with that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What did you learn about your own feelings throughout the whole experience with your dad? So being able to spend time with him and him moving in with you to his passing, because you talk about it very stoically at first, and then you talk up, and then you. We actually get to hear you talk about finally being able to cry and being able to, like, kind of get in tune with yourself a bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, his last few years, like, I. Like I talk about in the book, he's getting out of prison, and, you know, he's in his late 60s, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know, he might have been 70 something. So when I go get him, you know, that's when I had a conversation about, man, you ought to move with me. Like, this is just crazy at this point, you know what I'm saying? And the last time he dead time, he was probably two or three years. But I just felt like it was time I had my first child and I had a house. And so, you know, I remember stopping and getting him. He wanted a suit. And then I remember stopping at Verizon. He wanted a phone, and he had some money. He had a little money put up, you know, somewhere. And we just talked, and he. He said that he, you know, he would, you know, think about it, and he end up eventually just, you know, staying with me, which was really cool. It was like we. We started building that relationship. You know, I was so fond of him from a distance because I. You know, when I was young, we got separated. So just being in the same house, me learning his little crazy ways and his sarcasm and everything. And so, you know, after he started getting sick, I was going. I was starting it like, this was like 2012. My dad died in 2012. My first album came out in 2012. I was just so hot at the time. And so Keisha would tell me, like, man, you know, your dad didn't eat today, or you need to do something. She. She just tell me, you know what I mean? And he was somebody that didn't want nobody to know he was sick. He, like, such a man. He don't want you to know. He going through nothing, which is ridiculous. And he went to the hospital one night, you know what I'm saying? I end up going up there with him. I end up staying with him. I got, like. I just Stayed with him for, like, a week or two, you know what I mean? And I have shows that I end up counseling, but I had this one particular show in Savannah, which is, like, I don't know, a couple hours from Atlanta. And I'm talking to him, and I'm like, I got this show in Atlanta. You gonna be cool tonight? Like, yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna be cool. And then he says, you know, Dope man, my role model. I had a song called Dope Man, My Role Model, My Mixtape. So he so sarcastic. I'm like, bro, you straight. You know what I'm saying? He gives me a fist bump and says, do it, Big Epps. That's our last name. I said, okay, cool. I go to Savannah. I don't even get the room. I come back. When I. When I come back here on this breathing thing, I see him, like, boom. But I see him. He, like, looking at me. I feel like he looking at me. You know what I mean? Why he on his breathing thing? And he keep trying to take the tube out his throat, and they keep saying, like, if you. If he takes that out, he could. He could die.

[Just Hilarious]

That part was crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? So if he take that out, he can die. Now. Now rewind this. I just got my part from prison. So they saying the only way that he cannot take it out is if they handcuff him to the bed. You know what I'm saying? So I say, okay, handcuff. And then I get to thinking, like, something is telling me, like, he don't want to be handcuffed no more. You know what I'm saying? So he handcuffed to the bed. He looking at me and his. You know, he's breathing, and I say, all right, man. You know, take the handcuffs. I'll take that. Take it off, man. He don't want to be in handcuffs, but as soon as the handcuffs come off, he come to try to take the. And they telling me if he take it out, it could scratch his. Yeah, Southeast Lawrence. Lawrence. So. And so. I swear to you, I do that four times. Okay, put the handcuffs back on. Take the handcuffs back off. Put the handcuffs back on. And it's like he just. He not looking straight home, looking to the side like this. You know what I mean? So I try to hold his hands myself personally, like, you know what I'm saying? Not chill, you know what I'm saying? Just chill. He keep, you know, and then, you know, a couple days after that, or not even a day after that, you know, What I'm saying, the. The beep start going off, you know what I'm saying? By me staying with them and the nurses, I'm able to run, go get the nurse. You know what I'm saying? Check it out. And they same thing four times. They hit them, bring them back. They walk out the room, man, look, man, don't you be doing. Run out again. Do that the fourth time now. Now they. They put me out the room. So I'm looking through the. Look, the little window. And so the fourth time, the lady come out and she says, you know, I lost my father too. If he come back now, he'll be brain dead. We already broke two ribs. You just gotta let it go. And I was like, that's easier said than done because he just told me. Not only did he tell me, do it big, he told me before I went to Savannah, I'm not gonna die no time soon. It came out his mouth. And he never told me no lie. So I'm like, what happened from the time I went to Savannah and came back? But anyway, that's something that I wouldn't say haunted or traumatized me. I know you're big on therapy or whatever, and, like, this book is my therapy. Like, certain things I do is my therapy. I hadn't actually sat down with someone, and I'm not against people who. Who do or who have. But is it traumatic seeing your father pass? It could be, yeah. But then, like, a few years later, I had a son who reminds me so much of, like, how he moves and his sarcasm as well.

[Just Hilarious]

So I got two questions based on what you just said. Did reliving that for the book make you cry again? Because you said that was the first time you remember crying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, I cried so hard when that happened, but not when I was doing it in the book, because I'm just. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't cry while. While writing the book. I think because I've relived that so many times. It wasn't like I buried it and then just brought it back up. Like, I relive my pops passing in front of me. You know, I've done that a few times, so I think we. And then also I see now me talking about. It just becomes easier to talk about, you know, and when you keep stuff.

[Just Hilarious]

And when you said when Halo was born in the book, you. I got to see the picture. That's. I just got to see the picture. You said there was.

[Caller/Guest]

I got it.

[Just Hilarious]

You got the picture.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but I'll be showing. I show you, though.

[Just Hilarious]

I want to see the picture. You said it was a picture of your. Your father. The alarm went off, and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, so don't even tell the story. I'll just show you. All right.

[DJ Envy]

It's hard to discuss this book because there's so much that you want people to read and see for themselves.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, he just gave away a whole chapter.

[DJ Envy]

I know. Yeah, but it was worth it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So this. This picture.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, explain what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, so this is my son. Halo was born 10, 14, 15. Right? Me and Keisha was in the hospital, and my mom and my two daughters was at home, and they were in our room in the master bedroom. The alarm went off at home while Halo was coming. Alarm went off, same time, Boom. So while Keisha having Halo, the alarm going off, and my mom is asking me, what's the password to tell the alarm people? Because it's saying motion in the house or whatever. Now my mom is on the phone saying, I swear. And I'm looking at the cameras, and I don't see anything coming into the house. I don't see the doors. I'm looking at all the doors. My mom said I hadn't left the room, so I don't know why the motion going off. I tell her the code. It goes off. We have Halo. We come home. All right? We getting our alarm updated. And then Keisha looks at her email, and when you have motion, it takes pictures. It takes snapshots of what the motion is, okay? When we looked at the motion, you can see. You can see somebody. You know what I'm saying? And it was my. It was my father. Now, my father left in 2012. This was 2015. You can see an image. So people that I'm close to, a couple of my friends I'm close to. I showing a picture. I'm like, who are they? Like, man, that's pop right there. I'm like, look at the date. Like, my friends be getting big, old chill goosebumps or whatever. You know what I'm saying? My father used to walk around the house, like, with his shirt off. He was in good shape to be 70. Like, he wasn't, like, fat and sloppy. He was in the army, so he had something. But I'm gonna find. And so another thing about this. This is my personal opinion. He's so sarcastic that when I used to try to show people, I could not find a picture. So I gave the picture to Keisha. I said, keisha, when I try to show people, it makes me sound Like, I'm crazy. I don't have to picture Keisha from the boat room. We go to Florida one time. I'm not even looking back there. I know she know what I'm talking about. I go to Florida one time. I only got to pitch no more. I can't find it. What happened in Florida? Keisha. You remember

[DJ Envy]

Keisha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whatever. Anyway. Anyway, your phone. Her phone fell in. We was.

[Just Hilarious]

We was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She probably don't remember this, but she does remember this when I said this. But we was on a boat. We got off a boat, and then her phone damn near fell in the water. And when her phone fell in the water, I said, damn. That's all. I don't think about the context. I'm like, this is my proof. This is my proof that ghost are real or whatever. You know what I mean? Boom. Okay, So I get to looking because I know exactly when the date was, that I know when Halo was born. I pull up the picture again. So now I got it. So I give it to my cousin. I'm always with. Yeah, outside cat. I gave it a cat. Like, cat, you keep this picture.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Boom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's. This is crazy. So I go over to yay house, right? And I'm telling him the same story. I'm like, bro, this has happened to me. I'm trying to tell him what happened. And this is, man, you know, I'm the coolest player in the world, man. It's like fooled around. It's like lemonade, you know what I'm saying? So I can't find a picture. So I say, cat, Cat, with my. To come here, man. Give me the picture of Pops, man, so I can show why he giving me the picture, bro. I'll knock over a big thing of lemonade everywhere on everybody. Like, you know, I'm saying, I'm such a player. I ain't never done nothing like that. You know what I'm saying? So in my mind, I'm like, bro, this how my dad is. He like, be on some joking. He got me looking crazy here. I don't waste lemonade on everybody at the table. This ain't even nothing I do. You know what I mean? But anyway, that's enough of the story. Let me find a picture. All right, here we go right here. Let me see. I. I email myself.

[Just Hilarious]

Look at why he's looking at why

[Charlamagne Tha God]

he's looking at the picture. If you order the book on two

[DJ Envy]

chains dot com, you have a chance to win court.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two chains book. Two chains book dot com. Two chains book Go to two chains book dot com. I do got a sweepstakes for people. They can sit next to me at a Hogs game. Oh, yeah. You know, of course, that I'm very close. I come in through the owner's lounge. It's a whole experience. I do have this little side note, this disclaimer. Women, I'm gonna be smelling good. I'm gonna be looking good. If you have a crazy man at home, articulate that to him. Men, I'm not gonna be talking through the whole game.

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We can talk, but I'm gonna really be watching the game.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I hope a rapper win. I hope some somebody trying to make

[Angela Yee]

it listen and trying to like, you got a picture or somebody that's sitting next to you sing all your songs the whole time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can you get that picture? Because, you know, I'm trying to show them and you know what's going on.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, yeah, I see something in the picture.

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a whole person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought it was gonna be like, not. It's so clear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's how he used to walk around his shirt.

[Just Hilarious]

He walking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's him walking through the kitchen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow. So I know you say in the book too, that you feel like until you had your son, your dad hadn't like crossed over to the other side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's my assumption. Right. Well, this. My mom is super, super spiritual. Right. So she was probably like, you know her, like, he probably come to with me before. You know what I mean? Probably coming over there with me. You know, I mean, that's how she kicked it, like before he left.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But so the voices that you were hearing there, because I know you have been hearing voices in your head and hearing God for a long time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you know which ones might have been your dad because he was there with you, or it was the God connection that you have in you hearing God during that time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So this experience right here, when this happened, this would have been 2015. I'm not even sure if I was fully committed to just giving the voice it's credit for my success now. That's why I say when he asked me when it's time to write a book, it's like I've lived and had enough experience in trial and error with listening, not listening, moving through fear, moving through ego, to let you know, like this voice, they gotta be God. The reason I call it the voice of God. Cause the voice would be like my intuition. It'll be my alignment. You know what I'm saying? That's what the Voice. But when I say God, I know everybody's not into God, but I had to give the credit to somebody higher than myself, you know what I'm saying, for this superpower, whatever the hell. Like, for me, I got a real picture of my dad three years after he passed. Like, this is not something. And this is my first time ever, ever talking about it, feeling comfortable talking about it. Showing somebody that I feel like is. Understands like a deeper mean of, like, spirits and everything. Like, because I don't fully understand my father. He, you know, you see you. They be like, people come to you in dreams. People, you know, do stuff like that. I can't say that he did that. You know what I'm saying? But I can tell you that I do have a divine guidance in me that helps me make decisions, whether it's business decisions, relationship decisions, whatever it is. And it's a voice that could probably be too noisy to certain people, but I welcome that voice. So this book is. I put this book together to help somebody and to motivate somebody to shut down the outside noise. And this is also for anybody who's ever said, like, something told me. Like, something told me to get this job, wear this hat or whatever. Whatever it is. It's like. It's that something told me thing. You know what I'm saying is that. Or something told me, don't go to this place and this happens. Something told me, don't. Whatever it is, you know, and we've all said when we missed the flight, well, that's God trying to. Yeah, maybe I wasn't supposed to get on, you know what I mean? So why can't that inner dialogue be that? Why? Why? Why? They say God is inside of you and. And not. Why can't your blessings come from within on how you are on the surface? You're a positive person on the surface, and your blessings come from within. This is my experience. This is my opinion.

[Just Hilarious]

If that voice in your head told you to walk away from rap tomorrow, would you listen?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a great question. Because I love rap music so much, and I figured if he know I love it, he wouldn't do. He wouldn't do that. You know what I'm saying? I love it. And one of the things I love about it is that I still have good ideas, whether for me or anybody else. When I say ideas, not just in rap, but after the rap, the marketing, the title, the fonts, shades, like, I'm into all. Like, even this right here, this is a black artist named Darice. He's dope, man. He's just like. He's not with a gallery, anything. Therese Walker. I found him online. He does this little, like, pastel dope. This is art. It's like he drew. He drew this of me. This is not a picture. He drew this. This whole thing. And I just, like. I just, like. I don't know, curating dope stuff, so.

[Just Hilarious]

And you can still do that without rap. If God said 2 chance, I want you to put.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If I heard him as clear as you saying it, yeah, I probably would, because I feel like he got something bigger for me. And so he wants me to probably start going to sleep at night, getting up early or something like that, which I haven't done in since my father passed. I sleep in the daytime. I don't even sleep at night, so.

[Just Hilarious]

Writing books now. You got the podcast.

[Caller/Guest]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, me and Halo podcast. Make sure y' all check that out.

[Angela Yee]

What do you do at night then? If you, like, what are you doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just said, like, what are you

[Angela Yee]

doing if you're not sleeping?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, Do I sleep at night, y'?

[Caller/Guest]

All?

[Angela Yee]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. What time I go to sleep? Six, seven?

[DJ Envy]

I got kids when they say they just yell it out. It is what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Halo told me we was retiring it this year. I think he said on the podcast, like, we had to let it go or something. He moved on, man.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. But I go to sleep around six, six or seven. And then I get up around what time I get up? 12. 1.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is that because of your music artist life? Because a lot of artists are like that too, where they're up on the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been doing that every single since the kids know me.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Harmony 13.

[Angela Yee]

What are you doing, though? Are you thinking? Like, are you writing? Are you in a studio?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm in a studio space when I'm doing something ambitious to help my career go further. And that is the time when all the noise is shut off for me. All the people that I love should be in the bed, sleep. I don't receive phone calls that late. Nobody calling me saying they need. I can actually concentrate on the task at hand, whatever that is. And those are my hours that I can just lock in from probably 12 to 6 or something like that. I started working at night around 11 to 12. From 12 to 6 is really just really, really my time. Really me time. I don't have to worry about. You know what I'm saying? I mean, of course I worry about people, but it's just really my time. I don't have anything else on my mind but me and the task at hand.

[Angela Yee]

And that's therapeutic for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's soul therapy. I wouldn't know what to do, like, if, like, Keisha hates when I'm at home. That in those times. Because she trying to sleep.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'm moving around up.

[Angela Yee]

And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, just the other day, I was just doing the most craziest stuff, man, because I had to be up at 7. So I'm like, man, do I go to sleep, or do I just stay up to seven? So I'm trying to figure it out. She's like, what you doing home? Next thing you know, she look at me. I'm staring out the window like Malcolm X. I'm just looking out the window, and I'm saying stuff like this. I really need some asphalt so I can. I'm just looking at stuff at the house. I'm just looking at the driveway. I need to do this roundabout over. I'm looking at the tennis court. We got the light out there on the court. I'm looking. I'm like, man, we should use this more often. We just. But my mind and my. Like, I'm not sleepy. I'm not tired. I'm not yawning because my body trained. I'm almost like a newborn. I'm trained to sleep from, like, seven to five. I mean, I'm sorry. Five hours. Seven to 12. I'm trying to sleep, like, that long for the longest. Like, literally since 2012, since my pop died. I hadn't really slept at night.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, well, the book is out today. Make sure you pick it up. This is the book in my head is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God, are you looking at this? This is dope. It's a handsome picture on the back as well. And then look, if you open this up, this is something too. I know y' all know something told me. So I'm gonna challenge y'.

[Caller/Guest]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go to2cordsbook.com, enter the sweepstakes, and sit next to me at the halls game. You have to March 11th to do that. But this right here. Tell me what did something tell you before I get something told you. Give me an example.

[Just Hilarious]

To wear that hat.

[DJ Envy]

To wear that hat.

[Angela Yee]

Something told me to wear the hat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, so what I'm saying, what. So you was putting your stuff. Tell me how that. Tell me how that went.

[Angela Yee]

So I woke up under. This is crazy, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, because I was gonna wake up early and do my little. You know, my little curl and stuff joint, but I ain't have enough time because I was. I was going over questions for my book, you know what I'm saying? Because I start press this week. So I got up. I ain't have enough time for that. So I was like, you know what? I'mma wear my hat to go with my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something told you to put. I mean, you got other hats, though?

[Just Hilarious]

Hell, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What made you get. Put that one on?

[Angela Yee]

I don't know, like the bunny ears. Y' all want to go with the little suit and go with the, you know, the bodysuit. I just got these new Nikes. I know they cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You coordinate as part of your coordination. Okay. My dog, my dog. Give me an example. Something told you.

[DJ Envy]

I told him that today I'm learn how to ski today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something told you. Like, you just sitting there like, man,

[DJ Envy]

you know what is. My son snowboards. And I took him on the mountain the other day, and I felt bad because I couldn't go with him on the mountain because I don't know how to snowboard or ski. So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna learn how to ski. So next time we go, I can

[Charlamagne Tha God]

get on that mountain some good father son time to get absolutely hell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Something told me I need to go back home this weekend, spend more time with my family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love that.

[Just Hilarious]

Something told me that two Chains had an amazing book that he needed to get published.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's why you in them.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hold on. You knew you wanted to write a book, but did you go to him, say, hey, it's time, or did. How did that happen?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he just knew I'm a successful black dude, so he tried to cap in on my success because he know I'm a winner. Why else would you.

[Caller/Guest]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause he'd be having his little thing.

[Just Hilarious]

Two chains is the plug. I would wouldn't have crystal franchises if it wasn't for.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah, and people don't talk enough about you and your involvement in the Crystal franchise.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, my involvement in my involvement in the culture is crazy. You know what I'm saying? I am the Pinterest. I am the mood boy for a lot of stuff going on. I'm humble and quiet sometimes a lot of the times. But I can see how what my influence has done for even my whole city. Like, man, listen. Esco and the Esco franchise. Ten years I owned the dirt. Five years before I started running the business on it vertically. Candyland. There's no other person my age, my demographic that owns. My demographic that owns adult entertainment to get a permit to be nude and have Alcohol, they stop issuing those in 1993. You have to buy those for an extremely high price from somebody who sets it. A lot of the. Even the G League team being connected to the Atlanta Hawks, you know what I'm saying? Even having an association with that, it's just a lot of things that I see that I try to open up, like in this book, and let my peers know, like, this is what's going on, and this is how I'm even making these business decisions based off, like, of course I have a lawyer. I have management, but I got this voice going on with me, too. But I do have, you know, the crystal situation. Shout out to Jonathan. Just shout out to everybody that I became partners with. I think collaboration, collaborating is a good thing, not only in music, but in business, too. And my secret to that is finding someone that's passionate in whatever you're trying to do and collaborate with, and then you can have success in the field. So I said to say that the person I'm collaborating with at Esco, they're. They're passionate about the hospitality space. They don't have a special seasoning or sauce. It's bigger than that. You got to know this space. The person that I'm in the strip club business is passionate about that business. So it just. And Jonathan is passionate about crystals, and this man is passionate about giving back to our community. So that's how a lot of things line up.

[DJ Envy]

There you have it. It's two chains, ladies and gentlemen. Get the book today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

And it's the Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

into action, and Shopify is here to help us.

[Just Hilarious]

Whether you're finally ready to invest in

[Charlamagne Tha God]

yourself or if you already have a

[Lauren LaRosa]

business, take it from us. Shopify can handle anything you throw its way.

[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make sure you tell them to watch out for Florida man.

[Just Hilarious]

The craziest people, people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey.

[Angela Yee]

A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason.

[Caller/Guest]

It gave him too much money.

[Angela Yee]

Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking

[Just Hilarious]

a felinda with the Breakfast Club. Bitches. Donkey of the day with Charlemagne the gun. I don't know why y' all keep letting him get y' all like this. No, Lil Duvall, it's not me. It's Florida. Okay, Donkey of the day goes to to a 48 year old Florida man named Darius Davis. Okay? Darius Davis is from Miami Dade, Florida. Okay? Drop on the clues. Bomb from Miami Dade. All right? What does your uncle Charlotte always say about the great state of Florida? Say it with me. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. Okay? Salute to every black man out there who still has a hairline. All right? God bless you all. I remember those days of having one. And what bothers me the most is I feel like I got cheated.

[Angela Yee]

I.

[Just Hilarious]

Because back in the day, I got my wig pushed back by a whack barber, okay? You know, one of those barbers trying to get that line sharp, but in the process of them trying to get it sharp, they just keep pushing your hairline back further and further, okay? I really feel like that got me started on the path to baldness, okay? That barber snatched my edges, all right? My hairline never fully recovered from the barber pushing my hairline back, okay? Every black man out there knows the pain of getting your hairline pushed back. And then finally, at some point, you just say, eff it, cut it off. Okay? We were forced to go bald because a barber pushed our hairlines back. All right? Hashtag tragic. Now, Darius did something that a lot of men dream about doing when their hairline gets pushed back. And that something is violence. What do you mean violence, Uncle Charlotte? Well, let's go to Local 10 News for the report, please.

[Angela Yee]

Darius Davis is in jail once again after police spent a few days looking

[DJ Envy]

for him following a violent Encounter at a barbershop. Security video from that day shows Davis

[Angela Yee]

walking back into square biz with a gun and threatening the owner, Samuel Wilson. Wilson says this was all over an issue with Davis hairline. The barber says he's been doing Davis hair for a while and never had an issue before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wasn't a man til he had that pistol in his hand, slapped me

[DJ Envy]

in the head with it, choked me out.

[Angela Yee]

In the video, you can see Davis force Wilson to the couch and hit him with the gun. Newly obtained arrest forms for Davis show police took him into custody a few days later after a traffic stop. The 48 year old was booked into jail before appearing in bond court over the weekend multiple times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not think he was going to come around here and come back. I thought we might have fisticuff, but I didn't think he was going to come back with a firearm. I took, man.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good day.

[Angela Yee]

So Davis is facing several charges. The judge set his bond at about $35,000. Has since posted.

[Just Hilarious]

First of all, before we continue the story, I want to say salute to all the barbers out there dropping the clues bombs for every barber that can hear my voice. Barbers are pillars in the black community, my brothers. When you really put it in perspective, there aren't too many people more important to the black community. All right, some of y' all don't go to church, but you go to a barbershop at least twice a week. All right? So the barber more important than your pastor. All right, some of y' all see your barber more than you see your doctor, which is a good thing because I guess you healthy. But once again, your barber is more important to you than your doctor. Hell, some folks wouldn't even want to go to the doctor without a haircut. All right, the moral of the story is we gonna stop acting like barbers aren't a part of our circle of life. For me, as spiritual leaders, therapists, barbers, doctor, dermatologist, personal trainer. Okay, what is the moral of the story? The moral of the story is barbers should be given the utmost respect at all times. Unless. And there is an unless. Unless they are a terrible barber. Okay? No barber deserves violence. Unless, of course, they are terrible. But even if they are terrible, even if there is a barber malpractice, they don't deserve to get a gun pulled on them. All right? There's levels to violence. Don't like your fade, then ask for a fade. All right? But pulling a gun, that's too much. All right? Actually asking for A fist fight or fisticuffs is too much, okay? You can just say he sucks. That's worse than actually pulling a gun on someone or fighting them because nobody wants to be the barber in the shop that nobody goes to. That is one of the most lonely men in the world. You hear me? Okay? And they always fat because they have nothing else to do but sit there and eat while everybody else on their feet all day because they got actual clients. All right? Now, for the record, most people wouldn't react to having their headline pushed back in this way. But you always have to know who you playing with. Darius is a convicted felon, all right? And he is a known violent offender. He had an armed robbery charge in 93 and 98 and burglary with assault in 98. He did prison time from 99 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2017. So clear, clearly, Darius about all that action, okay? So anything can set him off. And I don't think people understand what not having a hairline does to some men. It can trigger violence, all right? Some men don't have the head for a baldy. And the thought of them having to get one is infuriating. I thank God he gave me the kind of skull that looks cool with a baldi, okay? Because everyone can't do it and they know it. Everybody doesn't want to wear the man unit, okay? Everybody doesn't want to do the painted on hairlines, but they also know how ridiculous they could look with a baldi. Think about, you know, how we had to get used to seeing Steve Harvey with a baldi. Took some time for us to adjust, right? All right, remember Miguel? R B singer? Miguel, when he first came out with a baldi, looked ridiculous, okay? LeBron James couldn't have a baldi, okay? I could tell by his head shape. Yet another reason he will never be Michael Jordan. Okay, who are some other people who look ridiculous with a baldy?

[Angela Yee]

Just who you think, Cynthia Eriva.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, first of all, I'm talking about what the hell?

[Angela Yee]

Cynthia Riva.

[Just Hilarious]

All right? Anyway, I don't know why I even asked you the moral of the story when the only thing sharper than the clippers is your temple. Trim the attitude, not the argument, okay? Please give Darius Davis the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.

[Caller/Guest]

Of the day.

[Angela Yee]

You are the donkey of the day. Ye are.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, indeed.

[Angela Yee]

Ew, that's crazy. Yo, Miguel. Head was crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

Go back and look at Miguel when he first came out with a ball head and he did it in the reverse. Usually People start with him.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

And then go ball. Miguel started off bald. Go back and look. Y' all don't remember Miguel when he first came out?

[DJ Envy]

Definitely.

[Just Hilarious]

I was definitely. You don't remember Miguel when you first came out and you had the bald head?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that was different.

[Just Hilarious]

When that's. That was. That was all I wanted. You. Miguel, you playing the dawn. He had hair by doing.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, yeah. Nah, that was. Yeah, that's when he was born.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what I'm trying to tell you.

[Angela Yee]

Getting real eggy around here, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Caller/Guest]

All right.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. You said one too many dams when looking at a man.

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Just Hilarious]

You looked at that man. You looked at Miguel for 30 seconds and said seven dams.

[DJ Envy]

Because there's a bunch of different pictures. All right, Anyway, thank you for that donkey today, sir. This guy's crazy. Morning, everybody.

[Angela Yee]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now we got Danny on the line. Danny is trying to get back with his ex as his baby mama. It's a co parenting issue, of course. Jess has a new book that comes out April 28th.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

And you could pre order it right now.

[Angela Yee]

Right now.

[DJ Envy]

Do we. Parents. Danny, what's up?

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[Caller/Guest]

What's up, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's going on, guys?

[DJ Envy]

What's up, brother? What's your question?

[Caller/Guest]

So I've been having issues with my baby mama. I was with her for, like, six years, on and off. Always would break up because of her decisions. So she split up with me now because she said she's trying to find herself. She's trying to be happy and all that stuff. All she's really doing is going out, posting herself at the club, posting herself at the gym.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I get it, you know, you

[Caller/Guest]

gotta do stuff to be happy, but I just don't. I don't know what to do. I want to get back with her, but that's not making me want to get back with her.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, so y' all not together right now, but you want to get. You do want to get back with her, and she is saying to you she wants to get back with you too, but she's a little bit of a party animal.

[Caller/Guest]

She's not saying she wants to get back right now. She says at the moment she doesn't want to get back together.

[Angela Yee]

She says she doesn't.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, so you can't. Y' all can't. If she's saying that she doesn't want to get Back together. What is she blaming that on? She's saying she's trying to find herself. You said because you're going in and out, I can't really hear you.

[Caller/Guest]

Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on.

[Angela Yee]

Because it's noisy in your background a little bit.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, sorry. Can you hear me better now?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I can hear you better now. So you said that she's basically trying to find herself. She's trying to be happy by herself, Right?

[Caller/Guest]

Correct. Correct.

[Angela Yee]

And from your standpoint, you see it as just her going out, partying, not really doing anything with her life, I guess, to better herself. Like, you just. And see her as a party animal.

[Caller/Guest]

Correct. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I'm. I'm.

[Caller/Guest]

I'm paying child support. I'm. I'm trying to be there as much as I can for my kids, but

[Charlamagne Tha God]

she doesn't really make it easy for me.

[DJ Envy]

How.

[Angela Yee]

How doesn't she make it easy for you? Because now this is a new problem.

[Caller/Guest]

So, like, every time I want to

[Charlamagne Tha God]

go see him, it's always like, oh, no, I'm doing something, or we're not

[Caller/Guest]

home, and stuff like that. And I asked her to send me pictures and call me on FaceTime to see the kids, and she just. She kind of blows me off and doesn't even answer me.

[Angela Yee]

When's the last time you saw your kids?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I just had them last week,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

and obviously, when it's my weekend, I get to see them, but.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay, this weekend is the last time I saw him. Okay.

[Angela Yee]

So y' all have a system set up where you see the kids every other weekend.

[Caller/Guest]

Correct.

[Angela Yee]

Okay. And has she ever. Have you ever missed a weekend on her account?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Never missed a weekend.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, so what it sounds like is you do want to get back with her, but she is not interested in a relationship with you right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

And you're kind of projecting that onto you, co parenting with her now. She's not obligated to get back with you. Okay. I know it may. Yeah, I know it hurts. You know what I'm saying? But it could be what you see her doing out in the clubs and all that, that could really be her outlet. Like, has she. Was she like that before?

[Caller/Guest]

That's the thing. She wasn't like that before.

[Angela Yee]

Right. So that's the thing, you know, because she was in a relationship and she was focused on being faithful and, you know, what have you. But, you know. How old is she?

[Caller/Guest]

She's 26.

[Angela Yee]

How old are you?

[Caller/Guest]

26 as well.

[Angela Yee]

Okay. Yeah. So she's. She's in her 20s. You know, let her Go out and let her have fun. If she's not putting your kids in any danger, if she's not putting herself in any danger. You know what I mean? Like, to be taken away from the kids or anything like that. She's not, you know, I think she's fine. I think it's fine. Let her live her life. I just think you're going through the motions of rejection a little bit. She doesn't want to be with you, but you want to be with her. Why did y' all break up? I'm sorry.

[Caller/Guest]

So basically just because she said she

[Charlamagne Tha God]

wasn't happy with herself and she felt

[Caller/Guest]

like we were roommates.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was the one providing. I was the one working and stuff. And this always happens around the same time of the month.

[Caller/Guest]

I mean, at the same time of the year. After six years, she's. She hasn't been unfaithful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We always break up because of, you

[Caller/Guest]

know, she wants to go do herself, but then she comes crying back and,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

you know, I take her back because I want to be with my family.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

It just sounds like, you know, she got some growing up to do, you know? And you may have some growing up to do, too, because I know you're not perfect either, you know? Yeah, absolutely. I. I think. How many kids y' all got, too? Yeah, I. I think she's just going through a phase right now. Let her do that. Like you said, this happens every. Every year or whatever. And then you take her back. There's no infidelity, nothing there. It's. It's just. Y' all gotta sit down and come to a resolve about it, you know, because obviously the kids are okay. It sounds like the kids are okay. Y' all just need to figure out how to move forward amicably, like two adults that's willing to raise the children together with no drama, you know? And you can't do that if you feel like she's playing games with your heart because she wants you sometimes and sometimes she don't. And she can't do that if you are pressuring her to be in a relationship with her. You know what I'm saying? So y' all just gotta sit down and figure that out. But y' all Both are young. 26 is not old at all. Yeah, y' all got a few more years until y' all actually do grow all the way up. But this is not the worst. It's not the worst. You know, she just don't want you right now, gang. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nice.

[Caller/Guest]

I mean, at this point, I've accepted it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I got to do myself and

[Caller/Guest]

just be there for my kids as

[Charlamagne Tha God]

much as I can.

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely. That's what you got to do. And if she's not keeping them from you, I mean, a little facetime here and there, she missing it or whatever, she not responding, she don't send you pictures, that's okay, too. It's all right. You know, you. You never missed a weekend. You keep on doing what you're doing. She may try to come back, but you got to put those boundaries in place, too. You need boundaries in place too. Like, look, you're not going to keep playing with me until you really figure out if this is what you want. You know, you do the work on yourself. You come back if I'm still here, because I'm not. It's not going to be forever. I'm not going to be here waiting like your doormat. You know what I'm saying? Like, you really got to implement that into the conversations without being rude, you know?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, 100%.

[DJ Envy]

Good luck, bro.

[Angela Yee]

Good luck.

[Caller/Guest]

I appreciate it.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Guest]

Hey, this Chantel from Columbia, South Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up?

[Angela Yee]

Hey there, girl. How are you?

[Caller/Guest]

Hi, Jess. I love you, Andy and Charlemagne. What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Love you too.

[Angela Yee]

Yo, yo, yo, girl.

[DJ Envy]

What's your question for Jess?

[Caller/Guest]

Okay, so it's not the usual co parenting situation because I must think of mom, four kids, three baby daddies. I already got it through my head that dudes have a choice of taking care of kids or not.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

So, okay, now I'm with my family. You know, sometimes I live in my own place, sometimes fall short, have to move back in with my grandma and my mom. So when I go back home, I'm having an issue, kind of co parent with my village. I understand. I have to respect my mom and my grandma because they raised me and they know more than I do. But when it comes to my kids.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, that's right.

[Caller/Guest]

These are my kids. So if I tell my daughter no or something, then she run to my mama or my grandma and they say, yeah, I'm looking like, what the world? Do I not matter? Do my. My discipline not matter? I'm just getting looked over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a good question.

[DJ Envy]

Cause you in my house, right?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, but these my kids, though. But these my kids. I carried them for nine months. I trying to raise them, you know what I'm saying? But they always say that their way is better because they older than me, they know me, but I don't want to raise My kids, like how I was raised. Like, my mama was kind of strict, so I'm kind of more lenient. Like I don't really whoop my kids or nothing like that. But I know when I was coming up, my mama, she, when she got mad or I did something wrong, she throw shoes at me or whatever, but she not doing that to my kids.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, you know, it's different. It's different. When I was younger, it was the same way. I ain't never get no damn shoe thrown at me. But you know, my parents, they, they weren't that, that abusive. But no, my dad never ever laid a finger on me. And my mom, it was a certain sternness in her voice that would just make me like, get my act together real quick. Like I would straighten up and get it together, but I. It was a different level of discipline when I was younger as opposed to now. My mom let my daughter run wild even when I had my son. He's 13 now, but when he was a baby, my mother let him get away with things that I could have never gotten away with as a kid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Angela Yee]

All right, so that's one thing there. Okay, but you're saying she's more lenient. Your mom and your grandmother are more lenient with your, your babies?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, well, all four of them, like, well, my. I only got it five months, but even with my two year old, like, he want to eat ice cream all day and I say no, they'll give it to him. So I'm trying to figure out how I can copay better with my village without being disrespectful to my grandma and my mama.

[Angela Yee]

Right. So you're is no way that you can do that. Especially if they're not receptive to just casual conversation to you. Just, just a direct. If they don't take you serious and they can't respect you as a mother, then yes, there's no way that you can say it without force. You know what I'm saying? There's no way. You know, now listen real quick. You live with them or they live with you?

[Caller/Guest]

I live with them. Like it's my mama house. My grandma, she's older. So you know, when you get older, you move back in with your kids so they can help take care of you, whatever. But I have fallen. I got laid off from my job and I got four kids. So I'm in the process of trying to find a new so I can get back on my feet again. So now I live with them, with my kids. So have you ever Tried to just

[Angela Yee]

sit down and talk to them, though. Have you ever tried to just sit at mom and Grandma? I. I love y' all to death. Yes, I do. But these are my kids, and I want my kids to be raised a certain way. Like how I want to raise them. I don't want to tell them what you just told me. I don't want to raise my kids the way y' all raised me. And I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but it's that we living in different times now. We living in different days. I want. And. And because this what they gonna try to throw at you. I know. And I know they are, because you said they used to throw shoes. And you listen, I know they gonna come at you with this. Well, if the father was in the goddamn life, then we wouldn't have to take care of your four children. They gonna say that.

[Caller/Guest]

I mean, they are, but, I mean, my baby daddy, they feel like they have a choice. Like, one, live in a different state, the other two, they live in a city guys live in, but.

[Angela Yee]

And your mother and your grandmother going to say, we got a choice, too, and we can kick your ass out, or you going to let us raise these kids the only way we know and the way we want to.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Complaining in somebody house is insane.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. And although I do understand.

[DJ Envy]

I do understand, but you and your mama house and your mama got a way of raising them kids, and there's nothing you could do. And like I say, all the time

[Caller/Guest]

for everything, it don't matter.

[DJ Envy]

It don't matter. You in their house, that's. You in their house, that's their house.

[Angela Yee]

And you paying for everything, because it is five. Five of y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Angela Yee]

It's four kids. Four kids. Yep. She got four months. And her mother and her grandma, it's her village, helps her take care of.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Native village leaders, unfortunately. So, you know, they. They lead in that village. Even though you are paying to stay there. You're. You're paying for everything. You're paying your way. You're paying the way of you and your four kids. You know, that's. That's a lot. But I will encourage you and tell you that you are. You're on the right thinking path. And you are right when you say, guys, don't. They do have a choice.

[DJ Envy]

We don't.

[Angela Yee]

They do have a choice, and sometimes that is not right, but they do have a choice in whether or not they gonna step up and be a father. That's just what it is. But, yeah, you gotta get on your feet and get out of their home.

[DJ Envy]

Can I say one thing to the young lady?

[Angela Yee]

What do you want?

[DJ Envy]

What's her name?

[Caller/Guest]

Chantelle? Yes. Chantel.

[DJ Envy]

Can I say one thing?

[Caller/Guest]

What do you want?

[DJ Envy]

Condoms?

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely.

[Caller/Guest]

I got my two sides. I got my two sides after that fourth one, cuz. No, girl get them clipped and burned,

[Angela Yee]

cuz ties come loose.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, they.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They.

[Angela Yee]

They come loose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, man. Well, J, I have talked to you before and you told me to hit you up in your DM for a followup, but this is a different part. But yeah, I just want to say that I'm still with the dude, though, unfortunately.

[Angela Yee]

You with a dude? You got four kids and you live with your mother and your grandmother, and you ain't living with the dude because

[Caller/Guest]

the last time you told me to let him go. So why you didn't let him go? Because he my baby father and I love him. Everybody don't need to break up. Some people need to work through it. Look at Envy and Charlamagne. I want to have long lasting marriages like them. You know what I'm saying? But if I give up on everybody, then who I'm gonna have that with?

[Angela Yee]

Your mother and your grandmother is dealing with the. The girl if you don't get off my damn phone. That's why some people you can't even.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay, I love you, too.

[Angela Yee]

Pre order the book.

[DJ Envy]

Condoms. Condoms.

[Just Hilarious]

Condoms.

[Angela Yee]

God damn. That is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

You gonna bring four kids into my house and then tell me how I'm gonna help you raise them kids?

[Angela Yee]

And you still with this? And you just said that he don't do nothing for these kids. And baby daddy's got a choice. And you still shacking up with the. That is crazy. That's why she need a. If she was, I would throw a damn shoe at her. That's why mother and her grandmother treat her like that.

[DJ Envy]

All right, just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. And don't be bringing me and Charlamagne's to your mess.

[Just Hilarious]

Now, don't be.

[DJ Envy]

Don't. Don't be. I'm traumatized. Don't be bringing that back to me.

[Angela Yee]

No, no, but look, even when y'.

[Caller/Guest]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Angela Yee]

Y' all was always taking care of your damn kids, right? So don't. Yeah, don't bring them.

[DJ Envy]

Don't bring me into your mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord.

[Angela Yee]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

And what about party favors? Will there be a theme?

[Just Hilarious]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Caller/Guest]

Mariah.

[DJ Envy]

Mariah. Mariah. What's your question for Jess?

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[Caller/Guest]

Good morning, Jeff. Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, DJ Envy. My question for Jess is how do I co parent with the father of my child without coming off mean or rude? When he wants to have small talk when it's not about our child.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. You still want them cheeks?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

So what. What is the small. What does the small talk consist of? Like, what is it? Because small talk ain't that bad. Unless that y' all really don't like each other.

[Caller/Guest]

It's not that I don't like him, but it's like, let's stick to the program. Like, the program is us co parenting and doing the best we can for our child.

[Angela Yee]

You just want to strictly co parent. You don't want no small talk. You don't even want him to say, oh, you look nice today. Or you don't even want to say. You don't want him to say, how's your mother? You don't want him to say nothing like that.

[Caller/Guest]

It's just, I don't want him say. I don't want him to say none of that. Just. It annoys me so bad.

[Angela Yee]

What did he do?

[Caller/Guest]

And it's like he, he didn't do nothing. It's just like, like, I don't know. I just don't. I don't have time. I don't care for the small talk. I don't have time and I don't care for it.

[Angela Yee]

I got you. I got you. But you. It's something you ain't telling me, is it? You said he ain't do nothing. But this man. Oh, my God. Was he a one night stand that. That ended up okay?

[Caller/Guest]

I wouldn't say that he a one night stand, but I liked him. We like each other. When I end up getting pregnant, I got pregnant in kind of a tough time. My grandmother was like on the verge of passing away.

[Angela Yee]

Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

She passed into passing away while I was pregnant.

[Angela Yee]

I'm sorry about that.

[Caller/Guest]

Long story short, he didn't stick around. Like, he didn't. Like, like the pregnancy just was like, not. I just, I don't.

[Angela Yee]

Your pregnancy had a bad experience with pregnancy. You, you didn't feel.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, because like, I felt like he was. Wasn't there. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Like you didn't have anybody to go through that with now.

[Caller/Guest]

Right? Turn out he got somebody pregnant two months before he got me pregnant.

[Angela Yee]

Okay. Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

So it was just like. Yeah, I don't, I don't care.

[Angela Yee]

I get it. So that's why I said, you can't be telling me he ain't do nothing. And yes, you are still hurt from how. How old is the baby?

[Caller/Guest]

She's 1 years old. She turned 1 on January 12th a second.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, Lord. Sticky booty smoothie booty. Okay. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Angela Yee]

Happy belated birthday, little mama. But yes. So that's. That's what it was. I knew you was lying. Girl, you don't want to talk to that man because that man.

[Caller/Guest]

I'm lying. I'm just saying, like, I don't care for the people. Like, he'll be like, yeah, I'm doing good though. I'm doing good and I'll be Like, well, I was like, are you. Am I supposed to ask you, how are you doing? He was like, I mean, it would be nice, but I'm like, and. And then.

[Angela Yee]

And then what you want to say is it would have been nice if you were with me for that nine months. I carried your daughter, but you weren't right. And I needed you. Not only was I pregnant with your child, because I can't get pregnant by myself. I was losing my grandmother, who ended up passing away while I was pregnant. So I was very hormonal. I was stressed out, I was depressed. I was sad. And my pregnancy was not happy at all. My pregnancy was not easy at all. Right.

[Caller/Guest]

For sure. I told him that, though. Like, I let him know. Like, I didn't. Our. My pregnancy was not what I expected it to be. It's nothing like I wanted it to be.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. And what did he say when you told him that?

[Caller/Guest]

He didn't say nothing.

[Angela Yee]

Not even an apology. Not even trying to, you know, because he can't turn back the hands of time. You know, you can't go backward, but only thing you can do is show different actions going forward and. And show that, like, he needs to take accountability. He hasn't taken accountability, is what you're saying.

[Caller/Guest]

Can't say, like, I understand. He trying to be better. That's what he say. I'm trying. I'm trying to be better.

[Angela Yee]

You're just still hurt from that. You're just still hurt from that.

[Caller/Guest]

Like, just like, I. I just want my child to. I grew up without a father.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

So I don't want her to fill that void that I grew up feeling.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

So it's like I'm. I'm done with the, like, the whole little butterfly thing, and it's over. Like, that's been over. Like, when I had her and I was in. Like, when I was pregnant almost by myself the whole nine months and I had her, and I was left in the hospital by myself for those three days. Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God. You were even in the hospital by yourself the whole three days when you. So he didn't come.

[Caller/Guest]

I mean, he came that first day. Yeah, he came that first day when I had her and stuff. But he didn't come.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, it's. I get it. It's. You're still holding on to that, and it's not. It hasn't even been that long ago. Your baby. Y' all baby just turned one, so I totally do understand it. There's nothing wrong with keeping it short because you can't control what him. You can't control him trying to keep having small talk. You can only control yourself. Do not respond unless it's only about the child. But you can't make him only speak to you about your baby girl. That's what it is. You just have to be on your big ignore game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Angela Yee]

You gotta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's it.

[Angela Yee]

You gotta act like you don't see those text messages. You can't block him because he still is an active father. Am I right?

[Caller/Guest]

Mm.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. So that's all he needs to be that. That's all he needs to be for you. Just. Just don't respond unless it's about your child. And hopefully you're able to let that hurt go later. You know what I'm saying? Because it is still very recent. It is very recent. And I would be crazy to tell you. You to get over that right now that you can't do that and that that's hurt. You know, you lost. You lost your people too. So, yeah, just. Just still allow for him to be in your daughter's life. Be in your daughter's life, Be a good dad. But you don't have. You don't have to respond to anything else that he says, even if he calls you it. You don't have to respond to anything else unless it is about your child. And that's it. Don't even. Don't act like you're not.

[Caller/Guest]

Most of the time. I don't. It's just like, I try not to come off mean or rude. So I'm like, no, I'm like, dang, is he not getting it that I literally just wanted. I just want to be cordial, but.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But that's the thing.

[Angela Yee]

You don't have to be rude about it. You don't have to be rude. You can just say, respectfully, we're. That. That's. We're not going there. Yep. So for baby Angelica. I mean, I know it's not your daughter name, but, you know, just for baby Angelica, like, just. Let's just keep it here.

[Caller/Guest]

Amaya.

[Angela Yee]

Amaya Bay.

[Caller/Guest]

For.

[Angela Yee]

For Amaya. Yes, we can talk about Amaya. All things Amaya. But respectfully, I have nothing else to say. Thank you. Enjoy your day. It's nothing wrong with just being straight to the point. Boom. He'll get it. He'll eventually fall off of that. And if you don't, that's on him, you know?

[Caller/Guest]

Right.

[Angela Yee]

It's okay. You can. Can only. You can only control you, boo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's all Right.

[Caller/Guest]

You're right.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, no problem. I commend her for being strong. That's a lot.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. Once again, don't forget, make sure you pre order Jess's a new book, Till Death Do We Parent, comes out April 28th. You can pre order right now. And salute to Starbucks. You know, if you listen to the Breakfast Club or watch the Breakfast Club, you know that I usually have a refresher in the morning, and that's just my thing. I don't drink coffee, but I do enjoy the Mango Dragon Fruit refresher. And that's something that I drink every day. But now they got a twist to it. They have an energy refresher where they give you a little caffeine in that Starbucks refresher. So whether you like the strawberry acai, the pink drink, the Dragon drink, or my favorite, the Mango dragon fruit, it just adds a little bit of caffeine. Now, sometimes, I'm not gonna lie, I need any type of drink to deal with Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Rosa, don't do that to me. Because I don't say nothing about when you get in here and be all energyed up and start dancing around the room like an old Popeye.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I dance regardless, because I can dance. I actually taught my kids how to dance.

[Just Hilarious]

Hello.

[DJ Envy]

But these drinks are new. So if you're out and about, whether you're in the morning or your afternoon and you need a little uplift, definitely check out Starbucks and check out their brand new energy refresher. So I have one in my hand. I know you have one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Cheers.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Positive note. Charlamagne.

[Just Hilarious]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

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