The Breakfast Club - Did Dame Dash Become Chairman of Revolt TV?

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

Loren LoRosa reactions to Dame Dash’s recent appearance on the breakfast club while providing clarity on some of Dame Dash’s claims! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So have been right on into the latest. You guys might have seen the interview that we did at the Breakfast Club with Dame Dash. And I mean, yeah, I was going to try and describe it or like sum it up real quick before I kind of get into, you know, my reaction to it. And this right here is like, you know, we only got but so much time here at the podcast. those quick news bites. The latest with Lauren the Rosa is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. So make sure you follow me on social media.

Lauren La Rosa everywhere, that's L-O-R-E-N, L-O-R-O-S-A, everywhere, because I'll be keeping you updated, you know, as this story develops in other things. We covered a ton of other things as well. I'll be doing a bit more reactionary things because there are some funny parts of the interview that I wanted to react to that I just thought were funny. person that was in the room. So, okay, let me just give some background context of this interview, Dane Dash at the Breakfast Club. So you guys know I come from TMZ. I was, you know, at TMZ for some years. A part of what you do in any newsroom as a journalist is you develop contacts. When you develop

contacts, it's normally because these are people that you have been working with, that you've been reporting on. A lot of times, you know, you're not speaking to them directly. So I have so much, I have so many strong relationships with publicists and managers and that whole thing. Agents. But a lot of times, you know, there are different influencers, celebrities who speak directly for themselves. Dame Dash is one of those people. So I begin, you know, having conversations via work with Dame back at TMZ.

And it was solely just, hey, this story is about to be posted, you know, because it was a lot of conversations around like money and his finances and things like that and like we see dame dash today and like you know there's all the the boss jokes and all the things but i think everybody at some point looked at dame dash and and you know we all know the history we all know the story right so for me coming into a newsroom where you know it's not hip hop focused um but you know being a black person in a newsroom that isn't there's a lot of stories and a lot of times where know things are happening and I would be the person to reach out to anything in relation to hip hop because I was the black girl in the newsroom right hate that title but it was the truth

it was the honest truth like I mean I was there shout out to Trent who is TMZ hip hop right now um Raquel and van were there before me and were there while I was there and ended up leaving but I say all this to say there I had a I built a working relationship with Dame dash in that way solely just hey here's the news that's about the drop, let me know if you want to respond. Now, from that, you know, when I decided to venture out on my own and do my thing via bronco grinding and social media, same thing. I keep, whether they're brand new contacts at this point or, you know, these are people

that, because a lot of people, too, I was working with prior to being at TMZ, but when I got there, I was in conversation with them more because I'm doing more news things, right? But whether it's a contact that I was working with there, somebody that I deal with because I met them in this new space at the Breakfast Club and, you know, doing the things I do on my own independently with Bronco grinding and the latest with Lauren La Rosa, I'm always going to reach out to you. So I do that with Dame often.

And if you've listened to this podcast, if you've watched the Breakfast Club, you know that anytime I report on anything Dame Dash, especially because a lot of the stuff, you know, I feel like when it comes up, we know what the conversation is. We know the jokes that come. I'm always, you know, I've been trained to always, as best as I can and as accurately as I can, present both sides of the stories. Sometimes you have it where people don't want to talk to you.

Sometimes you have it where, you know, people want to go to another outlet, whatever the case may be. But when I can do it in a perfect world, I'm talking to both sides. And I'll let people know, hey, transparently, I'm reaching out to both sides. Even on this, when this Dame Dash interview dropped and Dame Dash claimed several things that he was you know going to be the new chairman of revolt that he was going to use what he's doing with putting content on revolt right now and being the chairman uh to then acquire revolt at some point uh when he talked about being in a previous conversation about acquiring bt the bankruptcy stuff i let him know hey these people you know that we're being told that this stuff is not true

anytime i've worked with him it's always been very apparent a lot of times i come to him like yo Sometimes I can't always disclose who I spoke to. I spoke to whoever, here's the fact of the matter. There has been times when Dame has pushed back on me and said things like, he's told me things weren't true or he's pushed back on me. I remember one time he said to me, I thought you had, no, he said, you're normally better than that. I thought you go directly to the paperwork, the documents, because as much as I can, I don't

want to rely on nobody to tell me nothing. I want to go and get it myself. So if I can get online and pull court docs or, you know, reach out to. a network directly or whatever I can do, I'm always going to try and do that. And I had to, you know, in that moment when he tried to push back in that way on something different, I said, oh, it's in the court docs. I can send it to you. Send them docs, whatever, we talk through it.

So that's been, this is not my first time interacting with Dane, but this is my first time being in a room during an interview. And I will say, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. I mean, I knew, you know what I mean? like I know Dame is entertainment like that that's just what it is he knows what to do how to do how to talk how to he know how to get the people going um but I did think that at some point the conversation would get constructive and I think we did try and get like you know our few

constructive like solid real questions in but baby was I not ready so let's get to what dame is throwing my way right now as we're filming right now all of the reaction and the fallout from the dame dash interview was happening so i got people hitting me from everywhere and different you know things that were mentioned and you know because what people don't understand is that no brand or no business wants to have anything not correct surrounding their brand or their business when you're a brand or you're a business you're in the business of narrative so dame dash came on the breakfast club and he said these things i'm now the chairman of revolt right now and i also i have 15 you don't deserve to be the chairman of

I got you. So I'm now the chairman of Revolt with a pathway. You see, because he wants to trigger me. And I want you to acknowledge that. So I'm now Cam's boss, the chairman of Revolt with a pathway to acquisition. I've been trying to buy a revolt. Now, how do we know this is not CAF? We didn't see this on deadline.

Can you stop interrupting me, please? Deadline didn't make the announcement for this particular situation. They didn't want to. I had an announcement I was going to make with BT, but Paramount stepped in and they said, do it later. And they didn't want to be a part of this mess. It will be in something. You know, this gets played tomorrow.

So the announcement will be in the trades tomorrow. I've been trying to buy Revolt. And I also just did a 25-episode deal for my podcast for bosses take losses. And I'm putting all my content on Revolt. Dope. Now, once this was posted, a source close to BET got back to me and said, completely not true. Dame Dash has never been in conversations about acquiring BET.

I hit Dame Dash and I say, he, look, just letting you know, I spoke to a source close to BET who was telling me you were never in conversation to acquire BET. I then let him know before I posted any statement before anything. Revolt television is saying that you being chairman is not true. And I think they're going to make a statement. Now, time went by.

We're still fully filming the breakfast club, right? So time went by. Because I don't like the whole, you're lying, which, I mean, I'm not tripping. And people do this all the time. Like this is, when you want your narrative to go, you want your narrative to go. That's not my thing. But what I do always want to provide is clarity, information, and valid sources.

And that is what I do. So this is what you're watching right now. So again, I let Dame Dash know, hey, Revolt TV just said this to me. I'm letting you know. And I'm also, I also asked Tim, let me know if you would like to say something in response so that when I post Revolt television telling me, that you are not chairman i can also say and here's dame dash's response to that fair enough so so they both can get picked up at the same time fair enough basically he said that that was bs he said it was bs to

the bt situation he said that he had proof that he could show me he said he had to face time me to show me to prove i told him like look just send me whatever proof you have i'm willing to look at it and go through it and i always update with both sides of the stories i don't have a dog in a fight here Like, you know, my job is to just tell the story and to do it in a way that it's factual and that provides some clarity. He was insisting that I FaceTime to him in order to clear that up, which at the time, too, we're still filming the show, filming the show so I can't do. So I let him know what the statement was going to be. So then it went from him being the chairman to him saying to me, oh, I'm the chairman for the month. And he posted on his Instagram, first he posted to Charlemagne, he said, Charlemagne, he said,

Charlemagne, I would advise you not to make up phony sources without real name saying that anything I said was not true, or we will have a legal problem. Do not try to compromise my reputation. I have proved to support everything I say that will stand up in any court. Then he posted my tweet, which again, I text him long before I posted this tweet to let him know that this is what was being said and give him opportunity to either respond, to counter to anything. Dame Dash posts my tweet and he says, here goes the bullshit.

I'm the chairman for the month. If I acquire, I will be official chairman. Please stop playing with words. Just take that L. Then he posted a vibe article. And mind you, remember, in our interview, we asked because he said things are not real unless deadline or, you know, something like that announces it. And we asked, would there be anything announced?

Because he was making all these announcements on the breakfast club. Would there be anything announced in any of, in deadline or anywhere else? And he's like, no, deadline didn't want to do the story, right? So then this vibe article pops up. And the vibe article says Dame Dash named Revolt TV chairman unveils my paid and full docu-series trailer, right? And the vibe article continues. Damon Dash has been named Chairman of Revolt TV, a position the entrepreneur and executive

were helmed for the duration of one month. On Tuesday, September 16th, the 54-year-old in the network announced the appointment, which is effective immediately. And we'll see Dash bringing content from his own place. platform, American New Network to Revolt TV. In addition to his duties as chairman, Dash's partnership with Revolt TV includes Simu casting 25 episodes of Dash's podcast, Bosses Take Losses, hosted by the mogul himself. Revolt TV will also stream a significant portion of Dash's catalog on the platform,

including but not limited to his forthcoming docu series, My Paid and Full. The project will be driven from Dash's personal perspective of the paid and full era and spotlight various figures who were present during the events that were depicted in the 2002 film which dash spearheaded and then there are some quotes here about the the paid and full doc and all the stuff so then dame dash post the bosses take losses trailer which he says is with revolt via the american new network now granted all of this time has been by and revolt still has not said anything revolt has besides what they said to me which is that dame dash is not the chairman and i want to make it clear because dame dash had i was twisting his words let's listen to the words

that he said out of his mouth. Do you hear the words that are coming out of my mouth? I heard them. Let's take a listen. You understand? I wanted y'all to bomb on me because I knew all these announcements were coming. To anybody else makes an announcement, they're great.

But if Dame Dash, oh, it's a little thing. Oh, you're not the chairman. Like, I am. I'm about to buy this. You understand what I'm saying? I don't play. I've been trying to buy Revolt for two years. I tried to buy BET.

I just play a different game. See, the game I play, you don't make money every day. You get licks. It takes 10 years to make a company and sell it. You have to have EBOD. sold by a multiple and then as things progress dame changed what he said in the breakfast club interview in text and said for a month as far as i know when i talked to revolt i said chairman at all at all at any point they said no they doubled down no the one month the anything no and at first the conversation

was he's chairman and then when the vibe article dropped he leaned into for a month now granted i don't know if maybe, you know, there was some sort of like, here's what they were trying to make happen or whatever, but my source, who is leading narrative for revolt television, it says it's not happening. Not only do they say it's not happening. They also say it's not even happening for a month. There's nothing locked in at this moment at this point. I am dumbfounded with like why we are even.

here like what is happening i'm very confused i am extremely confused and i think one of my biggest things too is just if you were if you are looking to do business and dame does business like you know that's his thing another one of my things too is is like you know i think with the whole bankruptcy thing and when dame said we don't understand bankruptcy because we don't file for it i don't think that that's a black people thing i think there is you know financial like literacy needed in our community I know that. I used to work for a credit bank. But I think people in general,

unless you've done a certain amount of business or you've been in a certain amount of debt, not even from business, just from life, you don't understand what a bankruptcy is and how it works. But most everyday people do not. So right now, you're in the interview and you're speaking on what you have,

what you don't have, and you freshly just told a judge, I only got a little over $4,000 to my name. I can't afford to be. pay this debt. I wouldn't be no interview talking about nothing, not a thing. They'd be like you broke whoop-de-doo. You ain't got no money, Dane. If I was named Dash, you couldn't pay me to get on a platform and talk about my finances right now. Because if, you know, everything clears through this bankruptcy, which is the goal, I mean, he does make out at least back at, you know, in the clear where he can,

like he talked about in the breakfast club interview, he can then go on to do whatever it is he plans to do and he's doing it without all of this debt that has come on his back. I get that. But it's not smart to sit and talk about what you have while telling a judge in a court document that you don't have it. Why would you not think that somebody would try and use that against you? Like the attorney who is, they're pushing back, y'all. The morning that Dame Dash came to the breakfast club, I received a document that was

filed by Chris Brown just about them pushing back on the bankruptcy filing because they don't believe that Dame Dash is telling the truth in the filing for several different reasons. They bring up addresses that they say, you know, are fraudulent that are listed in his bankruptcy filing. They bring up, you know, you know, what he says he has and they believe that he has more. I would just be being so careful. And again, this is just me explaining my side of things at this point because dame trying to take me to the cleaners as a liar and all these things but i will say dame dash knows because and that's why i explained what my working relationship is anytime i'm working on a story and i'm working with these sources and i'm you know doing all the

things um whether i can say someone's name on record or not i go about the process the same way i'm reaching out to all parties involved all the time talking to them trying to understand trying to get context trying to understand what the color of the situation is so that as I'm providing information, I'm providing it in a way that tells the whole story. Because I think that's important, especially when I would never want to be the reason that a Dame Dash can't go do a business deal if that's what he's really doing. I would never want to be. I don't care how much you laugh, you joke, you whatever. Nobody feels good being the reason why somebody can't go and do something that they are set out to do that will help feed

their family ever. So I never want to be that person. But one thing I'm not is a liar and it's very convenient that I'm a liar right now, but when Dane needs to feed the streets with his music or, you know, his side of the story, I'm good at what I do. It's all love still. I mean, I guess. I don't know. This interview got me confused as hell. If you have not watched at this point, please go take a very, sit down, you know, pour you some wine, turn the lights down low, and watch Dane Dash on the Breakfast Club, the most recent interview that we did, because baby it is some things endure and I'm I'm just very confused I am extremely confused I don't know why why stir a pot this way for no reason I just don't get it

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