The Breakfast Club - Beyonce won an Emmy + breaks records in front of an audience of haters + Diddy wants $100M for alleged  defamation!

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

God will prepare a table in front of thine enemies - Beyonce Bowl breaks records and puts Beyonce on the path to an EGOT. Also, Diddy amends a defamation suit against New Nation and Ariel Mitchell and Courtney Burgess.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that shake the room. Now, getting on into the latest, we have. Beyonce. Queen be herself, mother, Beyonce, all the things, all the things, okay? One is in a huge congratulations to Beyonce because Beyonce has won her first primetime Emmy for Beyonce Bowl. So she is on her way to EGOT status. EGOT status for those of you who do not know is when you have an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. And Beyonce, let me double check. I believe Beyonce has everything except for a Tony.

Okay, yeah. So, Beyonce, of course, well, I just told you guys that she has the Emmy that she just won for Beyonce Bowl. Beyonce won the Emmy as a costume designer for her Netflix special Beyonce Bowl in the category of outstanding costumes for variety, nonfiction, or reality program. She won alongside other costume designers like Shiona Tarini, mind you, let me tell y'all about Shona Tarini. I interned at Cosmopolitan Magazine while Shona Tarini was there. She was leaving. market editor at the time. Sheona has always been fired, but she's come on with Beyonce as a costume designer. I like to say sometimes that like she kind of does creative direction as well because all of the pieces that she brings into a lot of the various things that you see Beyonce

in when she's performing and she's doing certain things are Shiona Tarini, but they tell a story. So I love, you know, when I wouldn't even call her a stylist, costume designers, wardrobe people act as creative directors. And the reason why I say act as creative directors is because the clothing tells stories. And I think when you are a creative director, and I think, but I know when you're a creative director, that is your job, essentially. You want to be able to tell stories and convey it in a way that the audience picks up on it. It's creatively done. It's sharp. It's concise. It's exactly what the client or the talent needs. And Shiona is fired. That's so I wanted

to give her that moment. So Beyonce is nominated next to Shiona Tarini, her assistant costume designers Erica Rice and Molly Peters, costume supervisor Chelsea Stable, and head of workroom Timothy Wright. Now, the awards will be presented at the 77th Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which will take place at the Peacock Theater in LA. It'll be a two-night event. It starts September 6 and ends on September 7th. Now, they do have an edited version of the award ceremony that will air on September 13th at 8 p.m. Pacific Time on FXX. So Beyonce is a part of the jury, category for this Emmy Award. So that basically means that she's not up against other people in this category and they pick and they vote. There's a panel of people. The panel people,

they sit, they evaluate and then they just say yes, this person has it. And then it's given to that person after the vote and after the conversations. The professionals on the panel are people that are your peers. So these are people in the selected industry. So probably other people who worked in the costume design department, you know, the non-fictional storytelling department, things that are very relevant to who the person is and what the art is that they are discussing or deciding upon. The jury category is a one-step process. As I mentioned, there are no nominees, but there is a voting procedure. So they vote, you know, on whether or not you deserve the award. Beyonce took it home. Deliberations include an open discussion of each entrance work with a

thorough review of the merits awarding the Emmy. Now, Beyonce is also nominated for two other categories within this Emmy's pool in relation to Beyonce Bowl. So she's also nominated for Outstanding Variety Special Live as a performer and executive producer and outstanding directing for a variety special. So Beyonce has won 35 Grammys, more than anybody in history, as we know. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song in 2022 for co-writing Be Alive for King Richard with Dyson.

So that puts her halfway to E. Got Stats. is. Now, let's talk a little bit about Beyonce Bowl. So you guys remember Beyonce Bowl. I hope you remember Beyonce Bowl. It streamed on Netflix. It was a Christmas special that Beyonce did. She was in her hometown. And she performed Cowboy Carter's album live for an audience for the first time. So she did a medley of a bunch of different songs from the album. It was special because, you know, not only was it in her hometown, not only was it Christmas, Netflix had never really seen anything like this, but she also broke records. She pulled in 27 million viewers with Beyonce Bowl.

And y'all remember, they tried to shut our girl out of the country music awards. Now, let's talk a little bit about what Beyonce was able to accomplish. I want to just say, in comparison to the 27 million views that Beyonce received, a report on hype base website says that in 2024, the CMAs only pulled in 6.8 million viewers. Okay? Clock it. That's what it's called when, like, you know, maybe say, God, prepared a table right in front of your enemies, a spread, okay?

God prepared a spread for Beyonce right in front of her enemies because not only did she break records with Beyonce Bowl performing that country music album that the CMAs did not even want to, a lot of people in the country music world didn't want to even admit was a country music album. They said Beyonce need to learn the ropes a bit, throw herself into the country music world a bit. But Beyonce has talked a lot about growing up in Houston, Texas, and how music and country music influenced her, even though the music she was making, a lot of people wouldn't have deemed country music. Even with Cowboy Carter, a lot of the songs on that album,

people still argued weren't country songs because of various things. God prepared the table for you in front of thy enemy, okay? Beyonce is, she is the mascot of that. Now, Beyonce was a sight to see, you know, for the country music, people would be telling Beyonce stay in your place. This is not your world. Beyonce has used this. moment in history with all of the strides that she has been able to make with Cowboy Carter to really teach people. Beyoncé does that a lot. All great artists do. Beyonce does that a ton. But during Cowboy Carter, she was able to, you know, in homage to Western and rodeo culture, she was able to showcase a lot of people in front of 27 million people, essentially, because you could go back and

stream it again and again and again on Netflix. So she brought out Mexican cowgirl, Melanie Rivera. She also brought out Bill Bull Riding Legend, Mertis Dightman Jr., known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo. She brought out Miss Rodeo, Texas Princess 2004. She brought out Miss Rodeo, Texas 2015, Nikki Woodward. She also brought out the first black rodeo queen in Arkansas, Jada, Jada, Jada, I'm sorry if I'm saying, it ain't wrong, Kersh. Beyonce did the same thing even on the cowboy album, Cowboy Carter album. She, you know, gave a lot of country music. artist spotlight, even in talking about the album, even in going on tour, she gave a lot of people

spotlight. And I think that's what it's all about. And I think that's why we keep seeing Beyonce be so blessed is because it's not just about Beyonce, even though it is. Even though this is Beyonce's internet that we be on and all that, right? It's not just about her in her career. And I think that's why we keep seeing her break these strides. And every single time there's opposition. Whenever the ops pull up, Beyonce goes somewhere. She's sit. back, pull out the lemonade braids and be like, all right, I'm about to show you. I'm going to let the work show y'all. Y'all not, you're not going to be able to get around me. I love that attitude. I love that mantra. I love everything about that. I recently joined the beehive. I wasn't

always a beehiver. But it's not even because like I, I mean, I do know Beyonce's music. Everybody knows Beyonce's music. How can you not know Beyonce's music? But for me, a woman like Beyonce and a lot of times with celebrities, I'm so enthused and just like excited by just who they are as talent and as business people. Beyonce is a business woman, but the brand of Beyonce is an institution. And you learn and take so much from how she moves. Like, I don't know if her wanting to stream on Netflix, because, you know, everything's intentional, especially with, you know, talent like Beyonce. I don't know if her goal is to get the EGai. And she's strategically positioning herself in the places where we see her to be able to shoot her shot for that.

And knowing like, okay, if I streamed this on Netflix and I, you know, you've never seen this on Netflix and I, and I break these records and I, you know, could potentially be nominated for Emmy on one step close to the EGO status. Or if Beyonce, I mean, I know she's to a point where, you know, she's reinventing the will per se of just different ways that her business, the institution I talked about, can continue to leverage and level up platform and numbers and business and just how they maneuver and how they do everything. And watching her is just green. There are two people that I love to watch in entertainment, black women, Issa Ray and Beyonce. Again, same thing with Issa Ray. I feel like with Issa Ray is always like a, she's like so silent. She stays above the noise, above the mess, but her work always speaks for itself. Crazy development deals. series that people continue to remember.

You can rewatch and secure 50,000 11 times. It never gets old. But just what she's been able to do with going from a YouTube online creator to really getting in the houses of these studios and these networks and even doing all that while being talent. Like, Eastern Ray, when people, you know, used to ask me like, okay, like, what is it that you want to do? Like, what is your wheelhouse?

You know, having a talk show, doing the things that I'm doing, yes. I'm, you know, of course, we're going Angie Martinez, we're going Oprah, we're going Wendy, we're going Miss Info, we're going, like I can, I can name so many different women and shows and just things that encouraged me or wanted me to do certain things. When it comes to me as like a producer, as a content creator and also wanted to do other things as talent, I always point to Issa Rae because for a long time, people were having the conversation about are you even able, what is a multi-hyphenate? like what is that it isn't even possible at a high level and then you look at a biance who does

Beyonce is a producer she is a director she at some point she probably costume designs she's built in set with her team Beyonce has her hand in everything even if she's hiring people to do certain things and not physically you know or time-wise actually doing it herself because i think in order to be as great as a Beyonce or to be as you know, innovative and breaking through doors and boundaries as an Issa Ra, you got to know everything because at some points people telling you what you can't do. People be telling it. And it's crazy when I think about it as a black woman because I think about how successful Beyonce is, how rich Beyonce is, how wealthy, because not even just money, but like wealth,

like things she can actually pass on, things she's actually accomplished, assets, you know, all of these things. As a black woman, I look at her and I'm like, wow. But then she does something like Cowboy Carter and you still have people that will tell her what she cannot do. And she just lets the work speak for herself. God will prepareth a table in front of thy enemy, period. Congratulations. American history is full of wise people.

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who were defaming him because the things that he was claiming or the things that these two were claiming, according to Diddy, on a platform called News Nation, were completely not true. Now, this was back in January. So this, so what happens is, is you can go in at any point while your lawsuit is still being, while your lawsuit is still in court and you guys are still going back and for an amended. That just means to make a change. So whether you add a new party or person that you are, you know, involving or suing in a lawsuit, whether you add new details, whether you up the amount of money that you're asking for because you now have new claims and new evidence of things, that is what an amendment is. And that is what happened here. I saw a lot of people

tweeting me and asking me, where did this lawsuit come from and why weren't we talking about it? And I'm like, you guys don't remember. This is the same lawsuit. This is not new. And we did cover this lawsuit when it first was filed, but it was amended. So basically now Diddy is asking for double the money. He is asking for $100 million. And he is claiming that he was defamed by a man named Courtney Burgess in a attorney named Ariel Mitchell because Diddy claims that when Courtney went on News Nation and News Nation's parent company is named in the lawsuit. But when Courtney went on News Nation and had an interview and had a conversation about Diddy, and claimed that he had videos of Diddy during, and this is like height of all of the like

freak off and loss, not lost, yeah, but freak off, height of the freak off conversation, the lawsuit conversation, the indictment conversation, the sex trafficking conversation, the Rico conversation. This is the height of all of that. So Diddy is alleging that Courtney got on News Nation and said, hey, I have videos of Diddy and celebrities apparently and also claimed that one of the celebrities that he could you could see clearly like they said that there were like screen grabs from an alleged video um not that they saw it but you know this is what he is telling them in this interview that one of the celebrities

named was Justin Bieber who was allegedly kissing another man now in the interview Courtney is asked are these videos are these things that you have valid according to Diddy. Diddy alleges that he was asked that plain and clear in the interview. And Courtney says, yes, for sure. The exact words from the interview were, yes, yes, definitely. Not only did Courtney allegedly double down that what he had was valid, but in Diddy's new amended lawsuit, Diddy's legal team claim or allege that on News Nation, Courtney also said that the eight celebrities seen in the foot But each two or three of those celebrities were under age. So Diddy's like, listen, you went on this news, I'll let you did this interview and you claimed, number one, that we're having all these freakoffs with celebrities. You claimed that you had videotapes of this.

You claimed and you named one of the celebrities as Justin Bieber in this. You also said that about two or three of them were underage. These are all things that Diddy is alleging that Courtney did, right? and he's naming the attorney in this and throwing her in the mix as well too and Diddy is saying that is completely not true now I do think at this point things like this unless you're able to show proof of these videos Diddy has a solid case here in my opinion that is just my opinion the reason why I say that is now that the criminal trial has played out and we've seen all of the evidence that the government has been able to recover including some freakoff

tapes, right? Now, we in court, me being in court, we were not able to see the freak off tapes ourselves. But there was no discussion, and they discussed everything very vividly, there was no discussion of celebrities being included on these tapes in court record. The conversation that was had in court was that Diddy and his girlfriends at the time, Jane Doe, and Cassie were on these recordings in these freakoffs, right? Now, they use that, right? They use these videos and seeing these women involved in these freakoffs to then have a conversation about where the coercion was there and all the things, right? But that's not even what Diddy is leaning into. But it is important to mention that in court, the federal government did not mention any celebrities involved.

And granted, even if there were celebrities on these tapes, I did not see the tapes. But hypothetically speaking, if there are celebrities on these tapes, there was a lot of things redacted as far as names and, you know, the jury were the only people able to even see certain things because they wanted to keep certain people's identities disclosed. They wanted to, because of the sensitivity of everything, they wanted to keep people safe, including the women that were testifying, the people that were involved. But the main point in the focus of the conversation in court was Diddy, Jane Doe, Cassie and male escorts.

That was the focus of the conversation. So I think unless Courtney and his attorney, Ariel, are able to actually show these videotapes and these screenshots, which is an easy way out of this, to be honest with you. Like, if I'm going to court and just literally doing that. Like, I'm not defaming you if I actually can show you that I have it and it's real. What Diddy is saying is, I don't believe y'all. We don't believe you. We need more people. Run it up.

Show us. but he has a case here because we have yet to actually hear from anyone who has seen a tape that was proven valid in that criminal case that named a celebrity. Now, on the other side, like I said, Courtney and his attorney, their defense is to just easily, if they got it, show it easily to do that. And we'll have to see how this plays out, but I don't think that this is a case that just gets tossed out. I do think that a judge actually takes the time to sit down and hear both sides and see the evidence that both sides have in this because they both have very solid claims,

especially Diddy, after going through that criminal trial and none of that type of stuff coming up. Now, on the other side, like I said, you just show what you have, show your hand, boom, like, that's literally it. So we'll see how this plays out, but I did want to give you guys that update because I think that whenever amendments happen, people think that there's like a whole new lawsuit and it's not. This is just like a, hey, I want to add this. Hey, I want to correct this. Hey, this more strongly supports. So I want to make sure we get this into. And that is all that we see happening here. I haven't reached out to. I actually spoke to Ariel Mitchell when the original filing happened. I have not spoke to her on this, but will.

So I will bring you guys more on that as I get it. So make sure you guys tune in. Come back for the latest. Now, at the end of the day, I always tell you guys, there is a lot to talk about. always and y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it my lowriders but y'all choose to be right here with me i appreciate you guys every single time you make that choice make sure you come on back for another episode tell a friend to tell a friend it's the latest with lauraosa this is where you're getting all this is the breakdown this is where it all happens daily right here see you guys in my next episode uh come on why is this taking so long this thing is ancient still using Today's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, ultra-light, ultra-powerful, and built for serious productivity with Intel core ultra-processors, blazing speed, and AI-powered performance.

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Were JFK and Maryland Monroe having an affair? And I find the answers. I'm so glad you asked me this question. This is such a ridiculous story. You can listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. It's Black Business Month, and Money and Wealth podcast with John Hope Bryant is tapping in. I'm breaking down how to build wealth, create opportunities, and move from surviving to thriving. It's time to talk about ownership, equity, and everything in between.

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