The Breakfast Club - Flash Back to Monique Interview, Neal Brenan Interview and More
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This is your time to get it off your chest.
Whether you're male or black.
Stay in with your chest.
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
So if you got something on your mind, let it out.
Hello, who's this?
What's up, Envy?
Hey, Trav.
Hey, Ying.
Trav, you mad at me?
No, I'm not mad at you.
No, I ain't mad at you.
What up, sis?
Good morning.
How are you?
You snuck into the back door again today, huh?
Bright and early.
Charmaine, I want to let you know,
your little clap back on your page yesterday
about when a guy kept accusing you of only making it
because you sold your soul and you worshiped in the devil
and you was like, you don't know how powerful my God is.
I was like, okay, Charlamagne.
I mean, that's just common sense.
I don't know why people put so much stock in the devil,
but whatever.
Right.
Listen, I want to tell y'all about this.
I called like maybe about two, three years ago,
and I told y'all about this story about the little eight-year-old boy, Gabriel Fernandez.
What happened with him?
I'm sorry?
What happened with him?
His stepdad, but not his stepdad, like his mom's boyfriend had thought he was gay.
So he used to like beat him.
He starved him and like shot him with a BB gun, forced him to eat like doo-doo.
Trying to beat the gay away.
Yes. Yeah, he the gay away. Yes.
Yeah, he basically killed him.
He's dead?
Yeah, he killed the little boy.
So, basically, as an update, the bomb's boyfriend just got sentenced, like, last week to death.
So, I was going to go ahead and drop one of Clue's bombs that they're killing that man.
There you go.
Drop one of Clue's bombs for him.
Absolutely.
Good riddance.
All righty, bro.
I like when people like that get canceled.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
That's the type of people you should cancel.
All right, bro.
All right.
Hello, who's this?
Yo, this is Adam with two M's.
No typo.
What's up, bro?
Adam with two M's.
Get it off your chest.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I just want to give thanks and praise to God for my daughter Zendaya.
She's a blessing to my life.
Yes, sir.
She turns six weeks old on Thursday.
So this is my first child, and I just want to give thanks to her.
And her name actually means to give thanks.
Is she named after Zendaya, the actress?
Funny story.
I saw her on Spider-Man, and, yeah, pretty much I was, like, intrigued by her.
So, yeah.
All right.
I love that name, by the way. I love names that start with
Z. One of my daughter's names starts with Z.
Well, enjoy it, man. They grow so fast,
man. Enjoy it. Yeah, her
middle name is Marley. Peace and
love to the world. There you go. Zendaya
Marley. We was just talking about how everybody puts Marley
on everything in order to sell stuff.
We just literally was having that conversation.
Hello, who's this?
Yo, this is Will.
Will, get it off your chest.
Hey, man.
First of all, I love you, Yee.
Love you, too.
You the man.
Yes, sir.
Charlamagne.
I got the book.
Thank you.
I follow you on Instagram.
But I got something on my chest, man.
Why you never shout out How You Clothing?
One of the hottest merchants out here.
I love How You Clovin'? One of the hottest merchants out here. I love How You Clovin'.
You know How You Clovin' does my merchandise for my podcast.
But I don't talk about my podcast on The Breakfast Club.
He said, yeah, we do.
Oh, this is my man from How You?
Yeah, for sure.
But you know, I don't like to mix the two.
Well, shout him out right now.
Well, now you shouted him out.
Can you drop one of Clues' bombs?
Drop one of Clues' bombs for How You Clovin'.
They got a lot of dope stuff.
Even outside of my merch, they got Malcolm X stuff.
We ain't even got to talk about that podcast.
You feel me?
Yeah, the Malcolm X show.
Some of the hottest merch out here.
Yeah, they do.
Some of the hottest artists.
Hey, shout out to Nas.
He rockin' it.
You hear me?
I love How You Clovin', man.
When I wore my Malcolm X jersey on Malcolm X's birthday,
that was from how you're clothing.
All right.
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Hello, who's this?
What's up, bro? Get it off your chest.
Yeah, what's up? I'm just calling because I'm in a good mood.
Because I just recently released my first feature film.
It's called She Evil of All You Want.
It's on YouTube right now. I wrote the reference for somebody.
Call what?
Your phone went out.
Your phone is going crazy, brother.
It's called She Evil Volume 1.
It's on YouTube right now.
I guess this morning is the promo morning, huh?
Everybody call in and get your promo on.
Salute to She Evil Volume 1.
What is that, a movie you said?
Yes.
Jesse.
Hey, good morning.
Breakfast Club.
Jesse, what's up, man?
Get it off your chest, bro.
Get it off my chest.
Today, I am blessed.
Today is my wife's birthday.
And all she said she wanted for her birthday was for Uncle Charlotte.
I wish her happy birthday.
What's her name?
Keisha.
Happy birthday, Keisha.
Where's Keisha at?
She's in the bed right now, waking up.
Let me ask you a question.
How long have y'all been together?
Going on nine years now.
Do you remember the first time y'all ever had sex?
Yes.
Do you remember the date?
No. You should remember the date? No.
You should remember the date and add that to your anniversary repertoire, okay?
Like I did.
Mine is June 8th.
Here's a little cheat, because that's also Charlamagne's cousin's birthday.
Does it matter?
I remember that.
I know.
I know.
He cheat, because he remembered the birthday.
Exactly.
You should remember that.
But happy anniversary to you and the wife, man.
It's her birthday, bro.
Oh, birthday.
That's all the same.
Happy anniversary. All we got to do as. Oh, birthday. It's all the same. Happy anniversary.
All we got to do is make her show up to something.
All right?
I know it's something of hers today.
Hello, who's this?
Precious.
Hey, Precious.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How you doing?
All right.
Why are you calling this morning, mama?
Because my girl been calling me her ex's name a couple times.
Hey.
Oh, man.
Hey, shout out to your girl's ex for having that good tongue game.
No, no, ever.
No, no, no.
Is she doing it in the bedroom or is it just random?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, in the bedroom.
Oh, man.
You know what that means?
That means that her jaw game way better than yours.
Oh, boy.
Step it up, mom.
It's not funny, Charlotte.
Excuse me.
I'm off the chain.
Thank you.
What's her ex's name? I'm not going to say her name. Put her on blast. You may be off the chain. Thank you. What's her ex's name?
I'm not going to say her name.
Put her on blast.
You may be off the chain, but she can't forget her ex's name.
What's her name?
I don't give her no credit.
What's her name?
We just want to know her name.
Mona.
Mama.
Okay, so maybe.
So what does she say when she says her name by accident?
Does she pretend it didn't happen?
Does she apologize?
Yes, she pretends it didn't happen.
Oh, wow.
And I'd be like, I heard you.
Oh, Mona. I'm sorry, I don't know why.
That's what she got. That's what she's like. I'm moaning.
Mona. Oh, man. Moaning.
I'm sorry for that, Mona.
Oh, Mona. Step your jaw game
up, Ma. Oh, she gotta be like, I was just
watching Love & Hip Hop, Mona.
That's crazy that your jaw game's so whack she can't forget
her ex's name, though. I'm gonna be honest.
It's not whack. It's not whack.
Maybe you need some new tricks.
Try a Halls in your mouth or something.
A Halls.
All right, Mama.
Thank you for calling, Mona.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
That sucks.
Yeah, that.
Yeah, literally.
What's up, Sequoia?
Get it over your chest.
Good morning.
Two things.
I want to say DJ Andy asked for you to make the Wildcats.
He never gave it to me, but that's okay.
Whatever.
People's choice.
Didn't give a choice.
But with the Brooklyn shooting, I'm in the, well, I was in the Marine Corps.
I just got out for a breath.
When somebody fires that up and says, Charlemagne's my friend, and he gets shot, but somebody puts their weapon up, we're no longer allowed to kill that person.
Why should the police be able to kill that person?
They're no longer a threat? Now,
the shooting in Brooklyn, he was holding a weapon.
I'm pretty sure there's other ways to disarm him.
Like, why do they never shoot people in the leg?
Baby, why you had to start the story off
with me getting shot? I mean, you could have
explained the situation without
Charlamagne getting shot.
You know, you would be
my friend, and you get killed,
and they put their weapon up, and they're no. I'm glad it was you, Charlamagne.
They're no longer a threat.
You can't kill that person.
I'll be sad if Charlamagne got shot.
You gotta have a connection to fire those rounds.
Yeah, I can't tell cops how to do their job,
but if they jumped out of this car and they didn't give a warning before they fired 10 rounds, I think something's a little bit wrong there.
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Good morning.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We got a special guest in the building.
My guy, Neil Brennan.
Yeah.
I got my Starbucks, everybody.
Oh, so after that training.
Oh, they are back in.
I will say it took a while to get service as a white person.
Really? Really. They finally finally once they took care of
all the black people, they finally got to me.
Oh, so y'all are secondary now at
Starbucks. I didn't realize that. I couldn't use the
bathroom. It was a nightmare. Really? Yeah.
Did you see the anti-bias training
that they had to do? What do you think they
did? Has there been any inside?
Yes, we have it right here.
We have the whole entire question.
That's the question that they had to ask people.
Well, hold on. Pass it here. I'm going to have you answer one.
I don't know if Neil has any experience working with black people. Let's see.
Okay. So we want you
to recall when was the first
time that you noticed your racial identity?
Oh, my.
That's a great question.
I guess right
away. Right when I came out. You came out the womb knowing you were white. I was right away, right when I came out.
You came out the womb knowing you were white.
I was like, it's good to be white.
It is good to be white.
No, you know what's nice?
When I was a kid, though, black people were always nice to me.
My brother worked, was like an usher in Chicago at the Chicago Stadium in Wrigley Field.
All the black dudes he worked with were all all straight with me what's the next question
you the first time you noticed how your race affected your beauty standards hmm
well you know people say I look like Scottie Pippen I see I see it too this is
a good one for you.
Yeah, go.
When is the first time you altered your communication style?
In other words, you dialed it up or down.
I'm the king of that.
To avoid playing into stereotypes.
When I'm dealing with someone I know is black on the phone,
it's really hard for me not to be like, all right, bet.
All right, bet. That's what's up. But not to be like, alright, bet. Alright, bet.
That's what's up. But I'd be like,
thank you. Thank you very much.
Agreed. And then it's agreed to.
So I am racist in that
way, in that I try to be like,
ah, a little bit
like, bet. See, I know, bet.
I know. What does that make me?
This is anti-bias.
But isn't that cool? You're just kind of like
using the latest slang.
You're assimilating.
It's lit.
You're assimilating.
You say dead ass when you walk in the streets of New York?
Dead ass, naked, butt ass, butthole.
Do you use the N word?
I don't.
I really cut down.
I'll say that, if at all.
You used to do it in jokes.
I used to do it in jokes.
I did it in a joke.
Now my policy is like, Neal, just black people got enough problems.
Don't add to it.
Yeah, I don't think it's worth it.
It's not.
It's like it takes so much energy,
which sounds like a white privilege thing to say.
Do you know how much energy it takes to say the N-word?
But it's just not worth it.
Was it easier to say during the Obama era?
Because I remember you doing the jokes during that time.
It was easier to say it closer to Shepard's show
in that I was just so immersed
in it all the time. And like getting
called it constantly.
So I felt like... It was okay?
It was alright. I did a joke
about it. So it was like about
the word. It was about using
it. Yes. So now you just don't
do that joke anymore? That joke
has been retired.
But I will say
that I was on Ambien
whenever I'm kidding.
Yeah, I just don't,
it's just not worth it.
Let me ask you a question.
Charlamagne uses a term
that some white people
don't like.
Mayonnaise.
Calls white people mayonnaise.
No one likes mayonnaise.
Are you offended by that?
No.
I call racist bigots mayonnaise because mayonnaise is disgusting, so is racism and bigotry.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
I know people that don't like white trash, don't like saying white trash.
What about Cracker Ass Cracker?
Cracker Ass Cracker is great.
It's a Hall of Famer.
Mayonnaise.
Why do you think it's a Hall of Famer?
Just because Chris said it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's it.
Cracker Ass Cracker.
You can't not say it like that.
Mayonnaise.
Yeah, mayonnaise.
I feel like it'll have a hard time catching on.
Oh, they hate it.
They hate it.
Listen, I can say crack ass crack a white devil on the radio.
But when I say mayonnaise, they call and complain.
Well, yeah.
It's the weirdest thing in the world.
Crack is a delicious.
Mayonnaise is disgusting.
True.
And I think it's the connotation of the mayonnaise.
It's gross.
Who eats mayonnaise? Exactly.
I don't mind mayonnaise, although I am vegan.
I go with a vegan mayo, which is kind of
almost whiter than mayo.
Alright, we got more with comedian Neil Brennan
when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning. The Breakfast Club.
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy
Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We have a writer for The Dave Chappelle Show
and comedian Neil Brennan in the building.
Charlamagne?
Have you been following the Drake Pusher beef?
Yeah.
What do you think of blackface, Neil?
Here's the thing about you can't, as a black person,
it seems like you can't ever, ever, ever, ever do blackface under
any circumstances. Like, you just
can't. It's like herpes. It's cool
and it's the minstrel show. But it's gonna be
found out. The fact that it was on that guy's
page. Did you go to the page? Yeah.
Yeah, and like, it was, and it
wasn't even featured. It was like bottom left.
Like, it's another one of my photos.
Drinking blackface, no big deal. But yeah, you just
can't do black. Do you think that was the most damning part of the.
To me.
I think the fact that he's not, it wasn't, we don't know, but claiming his child.
I think people were more upset about that.
Like, damn, Drake's not, he's a deadbeat dad.
Like, I think people were more upset about that at first.
But Drake can say, I'm not a deadbeat dad.
I just did not put my son out there yet, but I take care of him.
He hasn't released the son yet.
He's got a drive. He's got a date. He has a release date for the son. You gotta roll the son out there yet but i take care of him he hasn't released the sun yet he's got a drive he's
got a date he's a release date for the sun you gotta roll the sun out slow you get the whole
promo department behind it and then you bring the kid out come on man put a lot of pressure on
people when it came to rolling out your son man that's that's exactly right you know it's a mean
song when the nicest thing he said was you have an illegitimate son because like that when the nicest thing he said was, you have an illegitimate son. Like, that was the
nicest thing he said. Like, listen, and I was
like, that's mean. You know what?
The son part was pretty nice. It was pretty
sweet. It's nicer than...
Did anything offend you?
Nothing offended. I would like to say that last
time he dissed Drake, he
mentioned me, specifically
on, I don't know, it was some
it was like some, it was a Chappelle Show reference and Dave having writers and mentioned me specifically., I don't know, it was some it was like some, it was a Chappelle
Show reference and Dave having writers
and mentioned me specifically. Really? Yeah.
Push into it? Yeah. Go back.
Look at the tape, homie. It's there.
But he just mentioned
that Drake has writers.
The fact that he was talking about his friend
dying is a bit like
yeesh. Clutch my pearls.
Yeah, it was a bit like, well, first of all,
about Clutch My Pearls, I like that
how guys are rapping like rich
white women now.
Where like the audacity
was with Drake's on the last one. Then he's like,
I'm upset. He's got a song coming
out called I'm Flummoxed.
And Pusher
rapped about caviar
facials.
Yes, he did.
And now he's like,
I don't think you're capable of love, Drake.
That's what I think.
I don't think you're capable of love.
I think because your father walked out on your mother when you were five.
I spoke to your therapist,
and I think you're in a lot of emotional trouble.
He did.
He said,
Chappelle show all of you Neil Brennan,
sketch comedy, Who is for
real pinning?
See yourself as I pull up in that mirror
tin. Skins versus blouses.
You mirror prints. Chappelle show
all of you Neil Brennan's
sketch comedy. Who is for real pinning?
You know what I mean?
I've been out here, man.
And you from an era
where you actually saw real beefs, rap beefs.
You know what's funny?
If anything happens to either one of those guys, they have to make sure each other are okay now.
Because if anything happens to Pusha, they're bringing in... He gets tied back.
Yeah, they're bringing Drake in, like, first.
So, like, he should hire Pusha to security and, like, a doctor and make sure his health is good.
Because, like, they're the number one suspect.
The fact that Biggie and Tupac got... And no one got arrested is still amazing
in light of this.
Well, I think both of the people that killed him are dead, though.
That's what I think.
I think the streets did what they were supposed to do.
But I could just be making that up.
You had your own show in development as well.
I did.
So what's going on with that?
It's dead.
Sorry.
Thanks for bringing it up. I'm sorry.
Thanks for bringing it up. I thought it was coming out like this year.
Thanks for bringing it up, Pusher T.
Pusher Ye.
Pusher Ye.
Well, listen, y'all go check Neil out, man.
Here we go. Yeah, here I am. I'm going to
Chicago. June 7th
at Talia Hall. Then I'm, yep.
Then I'm going to Milwaukee. Then I'm going to
Indianapolis. Then the next week I'm going to Kansas City. Then I'm going to Milwaukee. Then I'm going to Indianapolis.
Then the next week I'm going to Kansas City. Then I'm going to Detroit.
Then I'm going to Minneapolis.
Chicago, I added a show because it's so hot.
Your 7.30 show sold out.
You know what I mean?
But it's a 9 o'clock show too, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I appreciate, just as a white person, I got to say,
you guys have so few white people on here that it feels good.
And I hope, white people, I hope that I represent it as well.
Actually, the last white person who was here was Melissa McCarthy.
That's a big deal.
Tell them where to find you, Neil.
Neil Brennan, N-E-A-L-B-R-E-N-N-A-N.com.
Neil Brennan on Twitter.
Neil Brennan on Instagram.
Yeah, those are my two main forms of communication.
Well, it's Neil Brennan.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Now, you guys all know Monique stopped by The Breakfast Club yesterday,
and we're getting it on today.
So we're going to play that for you.
Special guest in the building, Miss Monique.
Good morning.
Good morning. My husband's on the phone lineique. Good morning, good morning, good morning.
My husband's on the phone line as well.
Good morning.
When Monique walked in, I gave her a hug.
I wanted her to know it's all love.
Yes, he did, my love. We're just here to have a
conversation. That's all. That's what we're doing.
Now, what's going on today, Miss Monique?
A while ago, I had to come out and I spoke
in reference to Netflix.
I was asking folks to stand with
us as we boycott Netflix for
gender bias and color bias. Correct.
And we were fighting for equality.
And then I found out that
I had become Donkey of
the Day. Yes. By Leonard. And I
gotta call you by your name, baby, because
Leonard, okay, okay
baby, he's getting real special, Leonard.
But we're going, okay, Leonard Leonard And then I was called donkey of the day
And it really caught me off guard
Because when I met this brother
Some years ago
And I met a young man that was full of humility
And respect
And when I got on that elevator
He actually held the door
I remember like it was yesterday
And I said oh oh, baby,
thank you. And he was just like that.
Yes, ma'am. And Miss Monique, it's a pleasure
to meet you. And we had a very
beautiful exchange.
And I said to that brother, tell your
mama that she raised
you right. And he said it was my
mama and my grandmama. Yes, ma'am.
So I felt like this was
and still is,
a beautiful young brother making his way
but full of humility and respect.
Till we fast forward and I become donkey of the day.
So I didn't want to have to be hearsay.
I didn't want to have anybody exchange words
that I may have said to him.
So my husband and I wanted to come on
so we could understand how I got titled donkey of the day.
So why did you give a donkey today, Charlamagne?
Well, I think it was due to the whole Netflix situation.
You know, when I heard you say that, you know, you wanted us to boycott because of racial and gender bias.
But then you went on to mention two brothers and a woman.
So I said maybe she should be more specific and say black woman gender bias. But then also just from a business aspect, I wanted to know why did you feel like you should have gotten whatever Chris Rock got, whatever Dave Chappelle got, or whatever Amy Schumer got.
Because I feel like this is a what are you doing for me right now type of industry.
Well, she didn't say what they got.
She said she should have got more than she was offered.
And then, Charlamagne, you brought up an old Netflix special as well.
Well, that was later on.
But my point was,
this is a
what are you doing for me
right now
kind of industry.
We all know Monique
is a legend,
but we also know
that those deals
that Netflix has given out
are based off
recent stand-up shows,
recent shows,
recent concerts,
recent arenas,
recent tours like that.
So I just wanted to know
why you felt like
you deserved that much.
Daddy, would you like to start
or would you like for me?
It didn't start with the offer where the color bias and the disrespect transpired.
It started from when we had our initial conversation after Monique got her reviews from the night
in which Benjamin and Caitlin, who were representatives for Netflix, came out to see Monique, in which on two different nights they saw her get a standing ovation,
which subsequently gave them reviews of amazing and great show.
So when we're in the midst of having the conversation prior to them giving the offer,
we're in the midst, and he says, well, I want to make it very clear that, you know,
people speak about Dave Chappelle, Amy Schumer, and what they got.
I want to just make it clear, you know, so we can manage expectations
that everybody doesn't get those type of deals.
Well, when we're in the midst of that conversation, the phone disconnects.
We never reconvene.
He never gets us back on.
And our attorney calls me up, and we speak, and we're like, well, that was strange.
Are we going to get back on the phone or not?
Because anybody who does business knows that this is a key time in which to build the value of your client.
Then we came back with an offer that they allegedly had sent over that our attorney and I had never received.
And then on that, it was a certain time limit in
which we were supposed to respond. Well, we had passed the time limit because we never received
it. When our attorney had asked them to please resend the offer that they had allegedly sent,
it was clear that it had never been sent in the first place. That's the second red flag.
When we get on the phone to discuss the offer
that they had then finally sent over, initially they didn't want to have the conversation
until I expressed to them, it is very ironic that the call we had was disconnected.
We never reconvened. You became evasive. You can't get on the phone. Now I have to express
what it's feeling like, which is gender bias, color bias,
and there's also an age issue that we didn't discuss that's in there as well. So those three
things are what led to it in conjunction with the fact that the very items that he said did not
translate for Monique, which were her resume, what she's done in terms of movies, it didn't translate,
but he said those were the things that translated for Amy Schumer.
So why is Amy's resume work and Monique does not?
And they could not explain that.
Well, if you're just joining us, that's Sidney.
That's Monique's managing husband if you're just joining us so you know the voices.
Well, I don't think Amy Schumer is funny.
That's number one.
But she did sell out 50 arenas around the world, including MSG, and HBO wanted her as well.
So she created a bidding war based on those stats.
So I assume that's the reason her number was at that place.
Well, I want to address something because you said, I assume.
And then you also said, Monique is a legend.
That's what you said.
Absolutely.
Right?
And then when Robbie Prohl and Netflix also says, Monique is a legend, correct?
Absolutely.
And you believe that Chris Rock is a legend, as I do as well.
Yes.
And you would say Dave Chappelle is a legend, right?
Absolutely.
What makes me a different legend from Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock?
Well, when it comes to that Netflix special, the fact that Dave Chappelle did 1,500 shows prior to signing his Netflix deal,
Chris Rock was on tour with the Total Blackout Tour selling out shows arenas around the world before they did that Netflix deal.
And they also lured him away from HBO.
I understand what y'all are coming to the table with.
When I came to the table and I said, guys, and I said it humbly, I'm the most decorated comedian alive.
And I said that humbly. And then people, some people said, oh, Monique is crazy,
till it was proven, till everybody actually saw the numbers and said,
well, I guess she's right about that.
And when you say this is a what have you done for me lately,
the question is how much more do I have to do, brother?
Because when you do a film called Almost Christmas,
and that film has a $17 million budget, but it makes $45 million.
And then my sister Amy Schumer does a film called Snatched, and that film makes $45 million, but it has a budget of $42 million.
Now what's the profit on that?
I'm asking the question.
You have made a lot more profit than Amy's.
Well, it was actually a $25 million profit.
But that movie, Amy did her Netflix deal before Smash.
No.
He said, Robbie Pross said that was what made him also give it a deal
because of the big movie that she had coming out.
Right.
And that's where we had the check.
Yeah, coming out.
But she did the Netflix deal before that movie came out.
Well, we actually talked to the vice president of Netflix, Leonard.
Right.
And what happens is when you're basing off of what you're assuming,
and then you give me a title of donkey of the day,
is your mother still alive?
Yes, ma'am.
And you're from what city in South Carolina?
Monk's Corner, South Carolina.
Monk's Corner.
And if I was to call your mother or your grandmother, could they tell me stories of inequality that they had to deal with?
Absolutely.
So would your mother be a donkey?
No.
Would your grandmother be a donkey?
No.
I need you to explain how you gave me the title because you're not explaining it.
You're going off of what I assume.
But because you're on that microphone, and when we open up these microphones, we know just how powerful our voices can be. Don't we,
Angela? Yes, we do. And we know that what we say can become law. Correct, Lenore? Absolutely.
So when we do that, we must then explain it to our community because we know how poisonous it can be
when we put things out, but we can't back it up.
We just say it.
All right, we have more with Monique when we come back.
We got to talk more Netflix, her negotiations, and it gets more awkward with her and Charlamagne.
So keep it locked.
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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
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Monique is here.
Charlamagne?
I think everything you're saying about racial bias is absolutely correct.
Gender bias is absolutely correct.
We know that the black woman is unappreciated and undervalued in a lot of different industries.
But I think that when it comes to this Netflix situation, it's very specific.
I think it's more of an individual thing than it is a collective problem.
Like, can you honestly...
What we ask you is this.
Can you say if it's an individual problem,
how come that there are no individuals of color
who happen to be female comedians
that have had the multiple million dollar paydays with Netflix?
Because what happens with the black community
is what have you done
lately? But when you are a
white person in this industry, it's
you're only as good as your last project.
I thought it was drawing
power. I thought it was the amount of people that
will watch a special. Do you think this is specific
to comedians? Because I do
know they've given out multi-million dollar deals
to Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes.
So you think it's specific to the comedy industry?
Well, I'll let you answer it.
What black female comedian got the multimillion-dollar deal?
Well, don't you think it's coming?
I'm sure Tiffany Haddish will be presented with something if she hasn't already.
Well, but we got to speak about the sisters that's done it.
See, when Wanda Sykes is number 100 on Comedy Central's top comedians
ever. Number 70.
I'm sorry, Daddy. Number 70 on the
top 100. Ever.
But they offer her 250.
So what do you say to that, Lenore?
I actually asked about that. I spoke to somebody
at Netflix and they offered that deal
to Wanda Sykes before this guy
that does these stand-up deals even got in the
position. They offered this deal to her some years ago.
Does it seem strange that you
always have an answer when our finish line
keeps getting moved? When I say
name me one black female comedian
that's got the million dollar payday, I'm
waiting to hear the answer. Right, so
you think it's specific to comedians because
I don't know on Netflix any.
But I can't say for sure.
In history, name her.
Well, I would ask what black female comedian has sold out 50 arenas around the world.
What I would tell you is there's four beautiful black female comedians that we just got a Legends Award.
Her name is Samore.
Her name is Adele.
Her name is Miss Laura.
Her name is Monique.
And when the Queens of Comedy was on tour, see, we made history.
And I don't know if you've done your homework
because we were the only female group
black, white, Latin, Asian
to sell out consecutively
around this country but you'll
disregard that because you'll say
well what did you do yesterday
see you can't take it away. But if I'm doing
business and I'm basing it off doing
a deal with somebody who did this last year as opposed
to doing it 15 years ago or 20 years ago or whenever it was,
wouldn't it make more sense to do it with the person who did it just a couple years ago?
If you're doing business and you say, what's Monique's resume?
Now, you're the businessman, and you're looking at that resume,
and everything on that resume says, number one.
Everything on that resume says, sell out.
Now, all of a sudden, is it going to change, businessman?
Yeah.
If I had to sign Kobe Bryant today,
I'm not going to give Kobe Bryant a $100 million contract.
Well, you're right.
But his resume is amazing.
The difference between Kobe Bryant today and Monique today is
when you're 36 in the game of basketball, you done lost your step.
When you are 50 years old in the game of basketball, you done lost your step.
When you are 50 years old in the game of comedy, you're seasoned.
And if they had to come to Netflix, to your point,
because you make a very good point,
and Monique had to stumble like a 40-year-old or a 38-year-old Kobe Bryant who's got a ruptured Achilles heel that you've got to bounce back from, then it would make sense.
But if he dropped 50 and still was dropping buckets, what would you say?
Because they watched two standing ovations in two sold-out clubs.
You're absolutely right, Brother Sidney.
Let me ask you this.
Why not put together a theater or arena tour and sell that out
and then come back to the table?
Our table is special to yourself.
It doesn't have to go there.
See, my whole thing is,
that's something else.
We're talking about the money offered.
And my whole thing is,
as a businessman,
being a legend and all that
doesn't necessarily matter.
It's who do people want to see.
You could be a legend
and people love you,
but if you can't attract the people
to come to the place to see you
or to come to Netflix to watch you, it doesn't mean anything to me.
Y'all talking about selling out clubs versus selling out arenas.
No, I'm saying Netflix as well.
It doesn't mean anything.
But here would be the question.
You know what I mean?
Almost Christmas.
Would you say that was a hit movie?
Definitely a hit movie.
Would you say Bessie was a hit?
Yes.
Would you say Precious was a hit?
Absolutely.
So the question is, so, Monique, you didn't do nothing in 2017 that was on TV that we could see.
So that means you're irrelevant?
I don't think anything is irrelevant.
What happens is when someone said to me, Monique, does it become disheartening when it's your folks?
It's understandable.
I don't take offense.
It's understandable, and I'll explain why.
When I have to sit here and not defend,
but explain to people that look like me,
well, when did I become irrelevant?
If there was a movie I'll call Almost Christmas,
what, in 2016?
This is 2018.
So now all of a sudden,
oh, we don't know if people are going to show up and show out.
Now, when I did a show called The Bernie and Sid Show,
I'm sure you know those brothers, two white brothers.
And when I walked in there, Lenard, I walked in with a preconceived notion that I was going to have to defend myself.
Correct.
Because one is a strong Trump supporter and the other is a Democrat.
But I'm thinking I'm going to have to walk in and defend myself with these white brothers.
After five minutes of us talking, they shut their show down.
And they said, Monique, we're going to call this what this is.
This is nothing but racism, and we can't sit back and allow it and watch it happen.
So, no, we're going to tell our listeners to boycott Netflix until they get it right,
because you are a legend, and we have to honor and respect you.
Now, those are my white brothers.
Then I come to my folks, and I have to be donkey of the day,
which you still haven't explained, Lenard, and you're going to have to.
Because when you make those type of statements about your sister to our community,
what you're saying to the community is, as black women, you're devalued.
And if you stand up and you make a stand and you say, we need equality,
and we have to say what's right and
what's fair. And then a brother that looks like me from South Carolina says, you're the donkey
of the day. You have to explain that to our community. I've explained it. I said that I
think that you're using racial and gender bias, which are actual real issues. The struggle that
the black woman is going through in many industries is a real issue, but you're using it to focus on something that you're dealing with individually.
Did you just see Viola Davis come out and say, pay her equally? Did you just hear that?
Absolutely.
So when you have us saying the same thing, we're saying, pay us equally. You're saying,
oh, Monique, this is an isolated situation. Well, then what that says is you don't know
the history of this business that you're in.
And you sit behind this microphone and you try to be the guru of black culture.
I'm going to need you to know the history of us before you begin to label us.
And once you know the history, you know I'm not saying anything unique, brother.
I just don't understand how you can justify making $13 million in 2018 for a stand-up special.
When you say justify $13 million, did you get a chance to read what the offer was?
I did read some of it, yes.
You should have read all of it.
The key is we got to read all of it because what Chris Rock said a long time ago, if you
want to hire something from a black person, put it in the book.
This is not about comparing the definitive numbers as to what Amy got and what
Dave and them got, because it's merit to what you just communicated. But when you ask a comedian
to take a half million dollars for two years, you can't say any jokes. They don't want you to do stand-up for two years. And
essentially, they want
you to take a half a million
dollars and lose out
on two million dollars of work
that you would have made on the road
anyway. That right there,
it doesn't make sense.
We have more with Monique when we come back. Don't move.
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Monique is in the building.
Charlamagne, did y'all make a counteroffer?
He just asked, did we make a counteroffer?
And that's a very important question.
Yeah, did you make a counteroffer?
I did see that they responded to the counteroffer and said they regretfully won't be able to do this deal.
Hopefully, you guys can work together in the future.
And that's the point that we have to make to you, Lenore.
And, but in addition to that, my love,
and this is in conjunction with Roland Martin and John Mary putting out a
rumor that Monique was offered $3 million and then didn't have the decency
as journalists to come back and say, we apologize for the misinformation.
Because if you notice, Monique keeps producing receipts.
And as crazy as this sounds, this is a bigger picture than just Netflix,
because what has happened was you've heard about Lee Daniels coming out,
speaking in reference to how difficult Monique was and the whole nine.
We live in a culture in which the ladies who are going up in a room saying hashtag me too.
And people are saying, well, you know, if you're going up in a room at two o'clock in the morning, you know, you're about to get screwed.
So why do you go up there and do it?
But what happens is they'll say to Monique, why didn't you go promote a movie for Lionsgate for free?
Because you know what they'll do to you.
So now you're in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
Because the women who go up in the room, the reason why they go up in the room,
they know they're going to get screwed when they go up in the room.
They just don't know how bad they're going to get screwed if they don't go up in the room.
What happens is...
Sydney, can I ask you a question about that?
This is why, again, Lenard, you've got to be careful with your words
because you called your sister donkey of the day,
but you didn't do your research.
And you pulled that poison out into our community
without fully doing your research.
And now as we sit here, you have to almost backtrack your words.
I'm not backtracking anything.
Well, when you ask a question,
did you count off of?
We put all of it out there.
We put the information out there.
So you were so ready
to do good radio
that you didn't do your homework.
And when you have a conversation,
you know a brother named Gerald Kelly?
Absolutely.
Would you consider him your friend?
Absolutely.
See, I was on the road with Gerald Kelly two weeks ago.
Yeah, he called me.
And he said, Monique, I talked to Charlemagne.
And he said, man, you know I love Monique.
I wasn't doing nothing but making radio.
I didn't say that.
I definitely didn't tell him that.
I did say I love Monique, though.
I had a conversation with Gerald Kelly.
Because, again, when you say, did you counteroffer?
See, we did.
And they said there was no negotiations.
You take it or leave it.
Well, we didn't actually counteroffer.
What they said in the midst of our conversation, you giving us something to chew on,
we're going to come back and reflect on it.
And I said to them, trying to give them an give them out are you sure because here's the thing
we don't want to waste your time if if it's not real however if it's real and we can get something
done of course we would love to do business with you so y'all really didn't make a counteroffer
no because what we're saying they said it was non-negotiable. They told us they were going to go back to reflect on what we had discussed,
and when they came back,
they said that based upon our discussion,
we decided not to make a counteroffer
in reference to what it is
that you're speaking in reference to.
Hopefully we can do business in the future,
and so forth,
because what they were trying to emphasize to us that a half a million dollars was a strong enough number.
And other people that they considered equal to Monique, which they did not name, they said they've taken that number.
If you notice, you're having a conversation with Monique.
Why is it that Netflix won't have a conversation with
people? Because they can
bank on people like Charlemagne.
They can bank on our
brothers and sisters like Charlemagne
that will say, we'll fight them
for you.
I'm still trying to get you and
Brother Sidney to justify why you think you deserve
$13 million. Was there a bidding war between
platforms?
When you say justify, I'm going to put my resume on the table.
That's all I'm going to have to do is I'm going to put it on the table. When you say justify it, I'm going to lay it out on the table for you to look at it.
Do you do the numbers and ticket sales that Chris Rock does, that Dave Chappelle does, that Amy Schumer does?
If given the opportunities, why don't you answer the question?
See, if given those opportunities, you're answering the question for yourself.
We're not given the same opportunities, brother.
But if you do your homework, you already know that.
Why can't you and Sidney go out and book arena tours?
Do they go out and book their tours or do promoters book them?
See, what we're going to do right now is, and what I'm not going to do with you,
now you want to play a tit-for-tat.
And what you're saying is a black woman's resume don't matter.
I'm not saying that.
You're saying that.
You have to be saying that.
You keep trying to weaponize things like black woman and racism and gender bias.
Wanda Sykes, $250,000.
And she's considered one of the best.
Well, that was years ago.
And they said they would never do that now.
And I literally heard this like a few weeks ago.
Can you guys kind of answer that for a second?
So you did talk about the situation with Lee Daniels.
Yes.
And you talked about people saying that, now we've read some things also because you're here in our presence.
So I would love for you to speak on this.
So there are people that say that you didn't treat people well.
Yes.
And that they've had issues working with you and that you're difficult.
Yes.
So let's address some of that because Roland Martin brought it up when you guys spoke on Twitter.
Yes.
And he talked about the Ebony Magazine cover shoot that you did with Chris Rock and Steve Harvey.
Yes.
And he said that it was a nightmare because of you.
What happened at that shoot?
Well, what happened at that shoot was a check was thrown at one of our assistants.
And you don't throw anything at anyone.
And I had a problem with that.
See, they won't fill you in on all that happened.
So you had to let that person know that's won't fill you in on all that happened.
So you had to let that person know that's not how you do business and that's unacceptable.
So I have no problem speaking on it. When they said I mistreated people on almost Christmas. Well, we have 20 interviews because we knew that they would say something like that with the people
that worked in the background professionals, the lighting guys, the camera guys, where they all said our experience with Monique was stellar.
What happens is you hear the bullies speak out,
but then the bullies run.
Because when those videos did come out,
did Roland Martin come back?
When the videos did come out,
just with the three little videos,
you heard nothing else, did you?
Let's backtrack a little bit because with Will Packer.
Yes. Okay, so
Will Packer and Roland Martin and, you know, a lot of people have spoken out that have dealt
with you personally and said these things, but I haven't really heard anybody say anything negative
about Will Packer, about working with Lee Daniels, and I haven't heard them say anything negative
about some of the people that they've worked with. So why is it you?
Let me, I can answer that, and that's a great question.
You know the guy Harvey Weinstein?
Mm-hmm.
And he was able to do that for how many years?
Decades.
And why do you think that was?
Well, they were working with a lot of people who felt like their career would be in jeopardy if they spoke out.
So do you think this is a unique situation?
Do you think that people are fearful to speak out
when they're mistreated?
There's a difference between mistreatment and sexual assault, Monique.
We can't put out false equivalencies about people.
I understand what you're trying to say.
Wait a minute, Charlemagne.
But there's a difference between mistreatment and sexual assault.
Let me say this to you.
It's levels to mistreatment.
You're absolutely right.
Mistreatment is mistreatment.
You can't paint Will in the same brush as Harvey Weinstein.
Let me say this, because based upon the information that you have,
you feel comfortable with it because this is the world we live in.
If you keep hearing it, it seems as if it's true.
Ask David Talbert, who was the director of Almost Christmas,
if Monique had to stop because Will Packer was given directions over the director,
and he's the producer, and Monique said, stop for a moment, please.
What we're not going to do is disrespect this black director,
because if he was a white director, you as the producer would not give direction over him.
And to his credit, at that moment, he seemed to have got it
and was embarrassed by what it was that he had done.
And the reason she had some difficulty with one of the individuals
who were the first AP or something like that,
she had walked into Monique's trailer while she was undressed without knocking.
And I don't know if you know, but there was a letter that Steve Harvey had written a while ago in reference to how people just walk into his room.
What happens is she's the type of person that doesn't allow people to get disrespected.
And she's not going to have an issue with the people that are
the hourly wage folks. It's typically the people who are the powerful ones. She's not having no
beef with nobody. There were people that were getting their fingers pointed in their face that
happened to be black women by white men on the set of Precious. And she said, I can't allow that to happen, guys. So what happens
is you are forgetting that this is a country that had slavery for hundreds of years. And when do we
start realizing that we are so conditioned to normalize bad treatment when white men are able
to say, hey, guys, she's right.
How does the black community not see it?
We have more with Monique when we come back.
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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
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We have Monique in the building still.
Charlamagne.
I want to know about this, though.
Have you received other offers from other screaming services?
Let me say this to you.
Because doesn't that help with negotiations when you can create a bidding war?
Because of that black ball being put over my head,
the offers that come in from Netflix,
they can come in low like that because they know you've been blackballed.
You know what the word is about you.
So we assume that you're suffering,
and we can offer you whatever we want to offer you.
So the offers have come in even lower than that.
You had a Netflix special beforehand, though, right?
Well, I didn't have a Netflix special.
What happened was...
They took the one and put it on there.
Exactly.
I didn't make any deal with Netflix.
So those shows just happened to be on there and they've been on there for a long time.
So someone would say, if this woman's not bringing in any views, why will we hold on to the content?
They've been on there for a minute.
Are they getting the views?
Well, I'm assuming so.
We don't get a report on that.
But as I sit here again, and I sit between my sister, who I know you deal with inequality, Angela.
You in the same business I'm in.
But you'll look at me and you'll say, well, I need you to explain to me.
They said you was a problem here and a problem there.
We all know when you don't allow bullies to take place
and when you don't allow yourself to get bullied, don't you get labeled?
Yes.
But can I just, for full disclosure.
Please.
There are definitely people that I know that have worked with you on the Ebony shoot.
Yes.
And I've heard things, what they've told me personally, people that were in the room.
Say their names.
And if not, like I told Lenard before, keep it on the playground.
Well, okay, so I saw on Alfred Edmond Jr., who's the editor-in-chief of Black Enterprise magazine,
I saw that Amy Dubois-Burnett, who was the editor-in-chief of Ebony at the time of that shoot,
who was very excited to have you on the shoot, she left a comment because he posted something about you
and the numbers and about your worth
and how you are the most decorated comedian.
And she commented,
it was a nightmare working with her
and I would never want to go through something like that again.
I saw that comment is still on his page now.
I would love to sit down and talk with that sister face-to-face
so she can tell me about the nightmare
because what they won't do is they won't fill
it in. See, they won't fill in
we were being arrogant and we
wanted to treat that woman as if we were doing her
a favor by putting her on the cover.
As my husband told me years ago,
we don't disrespect anyone
but we over respect no
one. And I want you to look at me.
I'm a big, fat, black woman.
You're not fat. Stop it.
Real talk. What big, fat
black woman stands
up and says, this is not fair
because what the feeling is with some of our
sisters and brothers. Monique,
you should be grateful you just got invited to the
party because of the way you look.
So for anyone
that says they ever had a problem with me, bring them to the table.
Bring them to the table and let's have a conversation.
But what you'll find is we'll speak about this woman when she can't see us.
We'll make comments.
But we're the type of people that say, let's have a conversation.
And when you find out that they're wrong, will you then speak up loudly for me as you speak up for them?
I absolutely would.
But Sister Monique and Brother Senor, I want to ask you a question.
Let's just talk numbers.
If you put your numbers up against the Amy Schumers, the Chris Rocks, the Dave Chappelle,
and I'm talking about selling out arenas all over the world, how can you justify getting a huge payday like that?
When you're saying that you're going to offer her 126 of what Amy Schumer got,
and you're referring to Monique as a legend,
and you're seeing her performance,
and you see the people standing up for her
at the end of the show,
have you read the reviews
to the Netflix special for Amy Schumer?
I don't think Amy's funny.
Amy got me blocked on Twitter because I don't think she's funny. You don't got to. Amy got me blocked on Twitter because I don't think she's funny.
You don't got to tell me on that.
This is the part, Daddy, and we got to wrap up the show.
But Amy did sell out 50 arenas around the world, including MSG a few times.
She had an HBO special that did great, and this was all in 2016.
Here's what Brother Leonard is saying.
Let this year another show comes and they become number one and not the Breakfast
Club. And then let a host come in
here that's been doing it for maybe
five years less than you. And then
they get paid 26 times
more than you. Then you come back and have a
conversation with us. That's all.
Right. That's all. Because what happens
is when you sit here and you say, make
it make sense. Well, we don't have to.
Because again... No, you do have to make it make sense well we don't have to because again we
and you do have to make it make sense especially if you're calling on people to boycott
because we're saying here's the resumes guys in conjunction with that the only thing we're saying
is if hypothetically speaking it wasn't 13 million charlemagne What we're saying is how come there's not,
they're saying to the community that it's not one black woman that is a veteran comedian out there today that is worth a seven figure number.
So what would have been a respectable number for Ms.
Monique?
I don't want to know.
Here's the thing.
Let me,
let me give you a respectable number for Monique.
Something that would supersede what she would have made in two years
and at the very least what she would have made two years
to be able to take the two years off that they're contractually asking her to do
to not be able to tell jokes.
You would not take a deal because they're going to give you a lump sum of cash that's
going to castrate you out of three-fourths of your income.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
So if the deal didn't include the two years and didn't have that you couldn't tell jokes.
If I would have taken a deal for $500,000, Angela, what position would that have put
the babies that's coming after me?
No, the deal is foul.
The deal is absolutely positively foul.
Nobody says the deal is right.
But, you know, and Sidney, you're a businessman.
Monique, you're a businesswoman, right?
The deal is foul.
I mean, let's be clear.
And that's why you counteroffer.
But based on everything that they're hearing and based on what they know,
they know Monique's reputation as far as what people are rumored to say.
I don't even know if that matters.
It does matter.
They know that other networks are not necessarily giving her the money or giving her less.
They know what it is.
So why would I give, as a business person, her an obscene number when I know she can't get it anywhere else?
It's foul, but it's business.
But if you're saying, Monique, it is foul, and you are right.
So if we know it's right and we know it's foul, then what do we do?
We do it on our own.
That's just like talking to Steve Harvey.
And Brother Steve Harvey says, Mo, I know you're right.
And I know you're not lying.
But could you have done it another way?
No, you don't have to do it another way.
What's the suggestion?
What's the other way?
I don't want you to do it any other way.
We do do it on our own, but we still got to speak up.
Like you say, Angela, well, just go somewhere else.
Do you know how long we've been going somewhere else?
But here's the thing, and we have to.
We have to, and that's not an issue.
But what we're saying is this.
Just so people are aware, this is what they're doing over here,
and we want it to be known because as Wanda Sykes so kindly said,
she essentially suffered in silence.
She was hurt by, but she went somewhere else.
And the offer that they gave her was less than half.
And it doesn't matter about that was way before they got what they got
because she was even hotter then.
She came up under the wing of Chris Rock.
Her audience and Chris Rock are very, very similar.
She's very unique in the industry
in that she caters to a white audience.
Now, over time, Monique has a multitude of people in her crowd.
However, we know the people that focus are people of color
in terms of her crowd from a standpoint of the comedy world.
I think the problem started with you
coming out comparing yourself to Chris Rock,
Dave Chappelle, and
Shuma. Well, here's the thing.
Because there's no way that you can justify
getting that amount of money that they got.
Now, should you have gotten more than $500,000? Yes, and I've said
that from day one. Well, here's what I'll say, brother.
That's what we're saying, though. No, that's not what y'all were saying.
What y'all were saying was y'all should have got the same
amount that Chris Rock, Chappelle, and Amy Schumer got.
Let me answer that.
That is not what we said.
Let me answer that, Daddy.
What I said was, if I'm considered a legend, like my brothers, then why wouldn't I get what legends get?
That is exactly what I said.
Because their resume recently is better.
You can just prove it on paper.
We're going to, listen, Lenard, we're going to let you hold on to that.
Only he gets to go to.
But what I will say to you is, and to all the black women and women of color that is listening,
when you hear this brother's voice come over the air,
and I'm unapologetic about what I'm getting ready to say,
he does not have a value on black women and women of color.
How can you say that?
Why do you say that?
But you said 10 years ago, I hugged you, I held the door for you.
I'm going to tell you why. Don't you think that? But you said 10 years ago, I hugged you, I held the door for you. I'm going to tell you why.
Don't you think that's contradictory?
I'm going to tell you why I said it.
Because what happens is when you leave a place called Monk's Corner, South Carolina,
and you come to a big city named New York, and then you change your name to Chalamon the God.
I was Chalamon in Monk's Corner, Ms. Monique.
Well, when you were there, you become Chalamon the God.
Now, I don't know if you took the same principles that your mama and your grandmama gave you in Monk's Corner and you brought it to Manhattan, New York.
Because the brother I did meet on that elevator, I met a brother that was full of principle.
And I met a brother who would not call a sister a donkey of a day.
Donkey of a day is a segment that happens every day.
Unless he knew all the information and he could back up his statements.
But as we sit here and we did this interview,
you begin to ask questions
that you should have asked
before you made the statement.
So what I have is...
I'm asking you the questions,
but y'all really don't
have any answers.
What I have is...
Y'all still have not justified
why you feel like
you should have gotten that money
and y'all backtracked
and said you don't think
she should have got that.
We're not backtracking.
No, we're not saying that.
We're not backtracking.
And here's the thing, Daddy.
And neither one of y'all
are on the same page.
There will be some
brothers and sisters that get it the way that they get it,
and we get it the way that we get it, and it's not an argument.
I respect your decision.
I respect your opinion because you're entitled to it.
However, we are entitled to ours.
So what I am saying, that the devalue you place on black women,
and you say, how can I say that?
Because out of your mouth you're saying there is no black female comedian that is worth that money. say, how can I say that? Because out of your mouth, you're saying
there is no black female comedian
that is worth that money.
No, I did not say that.
I said there hasn't been.
I think Tiffany Haddish is absolutely...
When you say there hasn't been,
if I go down the list of black female comedians
and the work that those sisters have put in
through the years that opened up doors
so that people like you could sit where you sit.
Her name is Marsha Warfield.
Her name is Diva Dahl.
Her name is Moms Mabley, which she's no longer with us.
The list goes on and on and on, which we've never gotten out just to.
Ms. Monique, like, is it true?
All right, Monique, I'm going to go.
Monique, wrapping it up, what are you going to do moving forward as far as with this special?
We're going to keep on pushing.
See, the special's going to happen, baby.
That's going to happen.
Okay.
And we're going to let y'all see it.
But what we're going to do with this situation right now called the fight for inequality,
we're going to keep standing.
And we're going to hope that sisters like you would stand with us to say,
when it's inequality, we must speak up and we must speak loudly because your daughters are coming.
Okay.
Well, thank you for joining us.
Thank you, Ms. Monique, for us. We appreciate you, Miss Monique.
When we come back, we have Donkey of the Day.
So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
You are a donkey.
It's time for Donkey of the Day.
Donkey of the Day does not discriminate.
I might not have the song of the day, but I got the Donkey of the Day.
So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit me with the heat.
It's the Breakfast Club, bitches.
Who's Donkey of the Day today?
All right, listen, man.
Charlemagne Tha God here.
I'm on vacation.
I don't give a damn what y'all think about that because I deserve it.
Now, the Breakfast Club is in 80-plus markets in 150 countries,
so we have a lot of new listeners who probably
don't even know who Charlemagne Tha God is, so
use my time off to catch
up on some of my past work, okay?
Okay. If you're new here, I
do a segment every day called Donkey of the Day,
donkey as in jackass, and that's when I give someone
the credit they deserve for being stupid, so
if you've never heard of it, this is new to you,
but if you are a regular listener, then this is an oldie
but goodie because it's the best of the donkey of the day. Donkey of the Day goes to comedian Cat Williams. Now, if you heard of it, this is new to you. But if you are a regular listener, then this is an oldie but goodie because it's the best of the donkey of the day.
Donkey of the day goes to comedian Cat Williams.
Now, if you missed it, Cat Williams was a guest on Frank Ski and Wanda's morning show.
Drop on the clues box for Frank Ski and Wanda.
Frank Ski has always been good to the Breakfast Club, always showed us love.
Salute to that man.
I respect everything he does in business and in the game of radio.
The reason I can respect that man man, is because unlike Cat Williams,
I am not a bit-ass hater.
That's all Cat Williams was doing on Frank Skinner wanted to show,
hating with a side of lying.
Matter of fact, that wasn't a side of lying.
Cat Williams served us two entrees during that interview.
One was a main course of fresh chicken potluck. The other was stir-fried hate.
Okay, what dish would you like to revisit first?
Let's start with the chicken potluck.
Okay, this is Cat Williams on Frank Skinner and Wanda running down some of his resume.
Let's hear it.
I do have more comedy specials than any comedian breathing or dead.
That's only seven more than Richard Pryor.
Six more than Martin Lawrence and six more than Chris Rock.
Five more than Dave Chappelle.
Those are just facts, sir.
I have the top two comedy specials on Showtime, HBO, Comedy Central,
and we just moved to Netflix.
I'm on my 15th consecutive 100-city tour.
On the exact day that Monique was asking for a Netflix boycott,
Netflix had just cut me a check for $2 million for the special
that I got paid $300, dollars to do in jackson pimp chronicles has already grossed over 24 million dollars alone as one special because
of atlanta what are your honest thoughts about netflix well everybody has to understand that
netflix doesn't have an opinion on stand-up comedy they base what they pay you by the amount of ticket sales for your last tour.
So Monique's last tour had 316,000 tickets.
Therefore, that's what she got offered.
My last tour had 2.4 million tickets.
And so that's what they offer what.
Now, let's unpack some of this.
We live in the information age.
There is nothing you can't Google.
But a lot of us don't take the time to research.
You know, we hear someone we respect say something in an interview. We read something
someone posts on social media and we run with it as fact. And the fact that Cat Williams said these
are facts solidifies it for some people. The reason I hate situations like this is because
when you have the experience that Cat Williams has, you should be using your opportunities and
experiences to teach, not lie. Now, let's break down some of these lies.
Okay, Cat Williams said he has filmed,
he has more filmed stand-up specials than any comedian breathing are dead.
That is a lie.
George Carlin has 14 HBO specials.
Cat Williams said he has nine specials.
George Carlin, 14.
We can all do math in here, right?
Okay, next.
He said he has the top two specials on HBO,
Showtime, Comedy Central, and Naughty on
Netflix. I don't even know what that means.
Okay, alright. But you can Google the top
ten stand-up specials over the last 40 years on
HBO Go or HBO Now.
Chris Rock has number one with Big A and Blacker.
Number two is Tig Notario, Boyish Girl,
Interrupted. Number three is Dave Chappelle, Killing
Them Softly. Comedy Central has a list of top
100 stand-up comics, and Cat not even on the list.
I couldn't find the Showtime stand-up special rankings, and my people at Showtime haven't hit me back yet.
But by now, we should be noticing a pattern here, so it's safe to say that was a lie, too.
Cat Williams said Pimp Chronicles has grossed $24 million, all right, so far.
Now, Pimp Chronicles did great, but where did you get the $24 million number from, Kat? We would like to see receipts because if Pimp Chronicles grossed $24 million, it would be in
the top 10 of stand-up comedy concerts ever, but it's not. In fact, if it grossed $24 million,
it would be number four on that list over Kevin Hart, What Now?, which grossed about $23 million.
Martin Lawrence, Run Tell That, which did like $19 million. Richard Pryde, Here and Now,
which did $16 million. All I'm saying is, if Cat Williams really did $24 million on Pimp Chronicles,
how come nobody has any record of that but Cat?
Oh, and Cat did tell the truth when he said Netflix only cares about ticket sales.
His business is never personal.
I told you all that earlier this year in regards to the Monique situation.
But Cat Williams said he sold 2.4 million tickets on his last tour.
Do y'all know how much 2.4
million tickets sold is?
I'm trying to put this in perspective for you.
If Cat Williams sold 2.4 million
tickets on his last tour, that's more
than Beyonce sold for her Formation tour.
That's more than Taylor Swift sold for her 1989
World Tour. That's more than Madonna
sold for her MDMA tour. That's more than
the Eagles sold on their
Long Road Outta Eden tour. That's more than Justin
Timberlake sold on his 2020 Experience World Tour. That's more than the Eagles sold on their Long Road Out of Eden tour. That's more than Justin Timberlake sold on his
2020 Experience World tour. That's more than
Billy Joel sold on his Billy Joel
in concert tour. And these are artists who are
doing this globally around the world
in arenas. So tell me how it's possible
for Cat Williams to sell 2.4
million tickets domestically in theaters.
If Cat sold 2.4 million tickets, he would
have made the Forbes list. See, Cat, you sound
smart to a dumb person.
And there's a lot of people out there who won't take the time to research.
And I know you're asking why was Cat lying so much.
I'll tell you why.
Because he knew he was about to start hating on people.
So he had to show y'all he out here still winning so it wouldn't look as if he was hating.
Because the truth is, it's rare that you will have a hater that's doing better than you.
Now, let's listen to what Cat Williams had to say about Kevin Hart.
No, let me rephrase.
Let's listen to what Cat Williams had to hate on about Kevin Hart, Gerard Carmichael, Little Rel, Hannibal Buress, and Tiffany Haddish.
Let's hear it.
They're going to let you do your special, Gerard Carmichael, but nobody's going to watch it.
They're going to let you be a star, Little Rel, but you're ugly.
And white people don't believe in ugly stars.
They think you have to be somebody that women want
to sleep with and men want to be but because we black they say oh you don't even deserve that so
you get kevin hart lil rel gerard carmichael all in a row hannibal burris just dudes that no woman
would talk to in lennox mall let alone you making a movie stars let's let's keep going rolling with
tiffany go she's been doing comedy since she was 16.
You can't tell me your favorite Tiffany Haddish joke.
Why?
Because she ain't done a tour yet.
She ain't done a special.
She has not proven the ability to tell jokes back to back for an hour to nobody.
Did you think she wrote Girls Trip goofball?
Or do you think that was already a script and they handed it to her?
It's up to you whatever you want to believe. But people like real and that's why they like her. Girls trip goofball? Or do you think that was already a script and they handed it to her?
It's up to you, whatever you want to believe.
But people like real, and that's why they like her. Is that what they like?
They love realness.
Oh, because everybody's real then.
So don't trip.
No, no.
They like Tiffany Haddish.
Wherever you at under the sound of my voice, do you have a real car worker?
Right.
Do you have a ratchet friend?
Do you have a sister?
Do you have a cousin?
Do you have a nephew?
Do you have a niece? Is they so ghetto?? Do you have a nephew? Do you have a niece?
Is they so ghetto?
When did that become marketable?
Knock it off.
They like her because she want to sleep with a white man.
Now, it's one thing to have an opinion, right?
It's another to just hate.
Cat had zero opinion on Lil Rel's talent, Gerard's talent, Hannibal's talent, Kev's talent.
He was just hating.
If he would have said, I don't find any of them funny.
I don't know why people like them, I think these individuals
are funny or cool, that's an opinion.
But what does Raoul, Gerard, and Hannibal
being ugly got to do with anything?
Who cares if girls would walk
past them in Lenox Mall? What's that got to do with their
talent and them being funny?
Not to mention, Tiffany Haddish
has a stand-up special called The Hood to Hollywood
on Showtime. She's been on tour for a year.
She's got another stand-up coming on Netflix next year.
Like, what's the point of lying
the way Cat Williams is lying?
And those white Hollywood executives that like
Kevin, Gerard, Rel, Hannibal, and Tiff,
that's not the talent's fault.
The white executives like them. I mean, damn,
Cat, they used to like you, too. But then
you became an uninsurable liability
because you couldn't stay out of trouble. Simple as that.
You became a liability to Hollywood.
Cat Williams, I need you to know that destiny is not a matter of chance.
It's a matter of choice.
And Cat Williams, you chose drugs over your career.
Those are the facts, sir.
So kids, what is the lesson to be learned from all of this?
Well, always remember, someone who hates you normally hates you for one of three reasons.
They either see you as a threat, they hate themselves, or they want to be you.
Cat Williams, look in the mirror and ask yourself, which one are you?
Please give Cat Williams the biggest e-haw.
E-haw. E-haw.
All right, it's not rocket science, people.
All right, we got more coming up next.
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It's time for Ask Yee.
Hello, who's this?
Good morning.
This is Quentin from California.
Quentin, what's up, man?
What's your question for Yee, bro?
Before I go, first I'd like to let you know, brother,
that my God versus my enemy's gear that you're wearing is solid, bro.
Thank you, bro.
I appreciate that.
At Body of God, if you want to order something.
Go ahead.
So my situation what happened was, you know, I'm actually looking for a wife.
And, you know, I was dating this woman for about three and a half, four months.
And, you know, things were going really well.
I introduced her to my family.
And we had one night where, you know, we both made the agreement to not, you know, remain abstinent, you know, because I don't want no kids, but I don't want a lot, because that's just me.
Okay.
So we, you know, we got real close, and, you know, she stopped me, and before we, she let me, allowed me to proceed, which I didn't, but she let me know that she was transgender.
Okay. My issue was I'm looking for a wife, you know,
and immediately I couldn't continue the relationship because...
And that is your choice.
And at least she did tell you that before you guys had sex
because I think that's a difficult thing for a person to say off the bat
just in case things don't work out, you know,
maybe they don't want to
tell everything about themselves up front.
How do you feel now?
Do you still feel like you want to be with her?
He's calling because he still has feelings.
Oh, no, I don't have any feelings, no.
Because I can't have kids with her.
Okay.
You know, I mean, to me, you know,
and I felt that...
She's a woman, but...
Okay, I feel you want her to
biologically carry a child.
It's hard to not make it seem like to be offensive.
Okay, so you feel like you wish you would have known this
because you wouldn't have pursued the relationship.
But now that you have found out, you guys didn't have sex.
It didn't get that far.
And now she revealed something about herself
and you've decided that you can't continue the relationship.
So it just didn't work out, just like any relationship wouldn't work out.
But I feel like it is.
I mean, at least give me the option.
But Quentin, you want her to tell you like immediately when y'all first went on your
first date or when she feels like she knows you well enough to share things with you about
her past?
I feel like the moment we became, we weren't sexually intimate, but there is some intimacy
involved.
You know, I'm 32 years old.
I've only introduced two women to my mother.
Right.
I feel for you, Quentin.
Listen, I understand, like, it's a difficult situation,
and every situation is different for the person.
You know, at least she did reveal to you before things went there who she was,
and, you know, you love this woman,
but now you feel like that's not somebody you could be with
because of where you see yourself later on in life with marriage and everything and children.
But I feel them.
Before we get intimate, before you kiss me, like, let's be honest.
I want to know what's going on in your life.
I would want to know as well.
Well, yeah, she did tell him before they had sex.
We've had uncountable passionate kisses.
I'm saying, and I respected the person.
So if they would have come forward while we established that respect,
I wouldn't have had these
deal feelings. Can you imagine
how difficult that must be for her, though?
Also, as far as dating? I'm just
putting it out there.
And I understand
in that sense. However,
if we're trying to have a
solid, keep it 100
relationship, at the very end,
I could have at least had a friend.
Right.
My mom actually caught on to it.
She said some things didn't add up.
She tried to have a heart-to-heart, woman-to-woman.
She said she didn't feel like a woman to her.
Okay.
And that's just from my mom's perspective.
But the fact that I love women.
Matter of fact, you're probably one of the most beautiful,
natural-looking women that I've seen.
She's taken.
She's taken. She's taken.
And that's okay.
Try to shot someone else.
She has a boyfriend.
She has a boyfriend.
But don't let this make you give up on finding the right person.
Because you know what?
Relationships don't always work out no matter what the situation is.
There's different reasons why.
But you just got to put yourself out there and learn from everything that happens to you.
Did she give you oral?
Unfortunately, yes.
Unfortunately?
Why?
It wasn't good?
I mean, it was.
It was good, man.
Well, then it doesn't sound unfortunate.
It was good.
I mean, I was harder than Chinese trig, I tell you that.
Okay.
Well, there you go.
I don't know.
It sounds like you still have some feelings, but.
He does.
He's in love, but he doesn't know what to do.
Listen, don't worry about what other people think.
Just worry about how you feel.
Now, I understand feeling like you wish you would have known
so you could have made that decision earlier,
but love is love.
So what's your question for you, bro?
Thing is, I'm having issues, you know, with trust just in general.
How do I go about not assuming, you know,
and having to do, like, gender tests?
Just ask those questions.
You never asked her, right?
I mean.
She didn't lie to you.
You can't ask that question on the first day.
How do you ask that question on the first day?
You can say I've had an experience before.
I'm trying to, you know, what I'm trying to do.
So.
I mean, in the first 90 days, I asked if she ever had an STD.
I mean, I thought that was kind of, you know.
That's not the same question, sir. No her if she ever had an STD. I mean, I thought that was kind of, you know, because we weren't.
That's not the same question, sir.
No matter what, right, relationships are difficult.
No matter what, it takes a while for us to find the right one sometimes.
But when it does happen, it's the best thing in the world.
I would tell you, man, you can't just not trust, go around not trusting people because of this experience.
And to keep it real, she didn't lie to you.
And she did come clean to you without you having to ask her to.
So you just feel deceived.
And I get it, but no matter what, in relationships, there's a lot of things people aren't going to tell you from the beginning that you have to find out.
As they trust you and you trust them.
I'm sure there's things that you held back on telling at first.
I mean, it's the vulnerability piece.
I actually shared some things with her that actually actually didn't share with any past women.
And I think that's the part where I felt betrayed.
But moving forward, I'm not sure how to even.
And she shared some things with you as well.
That's what relationships are.
Try Christian Mingle, bro.
I appreciate that, brother.
All right, man.
Good luck, man.
And you know what, man?
Stay on hold.
He's never even been on Christian Mingle.
I'm going to send you a hoodie, man.
What size?
That'd be great.
I ain't going to ask you your size.
Why not, Envy?
What's your size, bro?
Pause.
Why are you pausing his size?
3X.
All right, man.
3X.
You're a big guy.
Whoa.
We're going to get you a hoodie, bro.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Ask Yee.
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Hello, who's this?
Juicy.
Juicy.
Okay, Juicy, what's your question for Yee?
So, basically, I feel like I understand celebrities feel like, you know,
all their fans are crazy or whatever.
But I feel like if I go to every show, like, I'm up there supporting you.
I'm telling all my homegirls about you.
I play your music all the time. You know, anytime you come out,'m up there supporting you. I'm telling all my homegirls about you. I play your music all the time. You know,
anytime you come out, I'm there supporting
you. If I respectfully
ask you to come with, you know,
accompany to my appointment, you know,
that basically is going to let me know if I got breast
cancer or not. If I ask you as a fan
like, hey, I have, you know,
a lump in my breast and, you know,
I have two appointments and
the results, you know, come out, you know, out you know on the second appointment and wait now who are you
asking you're asking celebrities just random people well the person I asked I've met him three times so he knows you know I'm not like a crazy fan like I'm a fan an artist and I ask you to come with me to find out if I got breast cancer or not?
I'm crazy.
Yes.
Well, Juicy, celebrity or not, you've met somebody three times.
Right.
And you asked him to come with you.
I wouldn't ask somebody I met three times.
Did you ask your mama?
What about your daddy?
Yeah, what about one of your best friends or something?
My mom is dead and my dad, he's not here.
So I'm not sure I have friends, and I do have family,
but I feel like you're somebody that is able to help me
in the sense that I wouldn't be in there crying.
I wouldn't die if I found out.
You know what I mean?
Who is the celebrity?
I don't want to say that because I don't want to be like,
I'm not a crazy person, and I don't feel like I'm crazy
for asking you to help me.
Who is the celebrity?
Well, so Juicy, so let me, okay, so he blocked you after you asked?
Yes.
It's not like I was like, you know, crazy or anything.
And I felt like I was, I said I would be grateful to have your support.
That's what I said.
I think you should tell us who it is so maybe he'll feel guilty
and then maybe he'll go with you on your next appointment.
Stop it.
Who is the person?
That's messed up.
I can't, I feel like, what if he's...
Give us a hint.
Give us a hint.
Is he a singer?
Yes.
Trey Songz.
Have you had sex with him?
Why is y'all so...
Is it Trey?
Is it Trey?
It's Trey, right?
That was so sad.
It's Trey.
I know it was Trey.
The reason I know it was Trey
is because only Trey's fans would feel like
he's close enough with them
to ask him to go to a breast cancer appointment.
Sheldon, can you get out of ASCII right now?
But it's just so silly.
I'm sorry.
I will just.
I'm sorry.
Juicy, juicy, juicy.
Supporting the whole music world.
Because I feel like if I support you to that level, like, I spent a lot of money.
I traveled to shows, like, not because, you know, like, I wanted something in return.
Just because I wanted to support you as a fan.
I'm like, you're great.
Juicy, I just want to say something here. Number one, I just
want to tell you, I am sorry that you're dealing with this
with the lump in your breast and having
to go to these appointments and everything. I'm not
crazy. I'm not. I'm a very
good person. Like, I do a lot
of people. Like, I take care of all my
siblings. I'm the oldest. My mom has a way.
I'm telling you that they're not crazy more than seven times
in a five-minute conversation.
But Juicy, let me explain
something to you, okay? The artist
is not asking you
personally, hey, I need you to come to my show.
You're doing this out of your own free will, and you
should never do things to support
people expecting them to do something for you in
return. You should do it because you want to do it.
You're right. You're right. So if you
really support a person and
you're, you know, a true, true
person that feels like connected to somebody,
you go to those shows, you spend
your money because you want to because it makes you feel
good and you should not say, well, because
I've done this for you, you need to do this for me.
I'm not. I'm just saying that I
feel like when I did.
How about you could ask him to
just, hey, can you offer me some kind words
or let me know that I'm in your thoughts, things like that,
but you can't expect him to leave what he has to do and his responsibilities.
He's only met you three times.
And I'm sure he does appreciate your support,
and he loves the fact that you come out and support him,
but you should never do anything in life expecting something in return.
I never expect anybody to do anything for me.
I can ask, and if you say no, I have to respect that.
You sound very entitled.
You're right, and I do respect that.
You didn't even offer that man no fellatio or nothing for us.
Stop it.
I did.
You know, I did.
I asked him.
I was like, hey, I'll take you to dinner, you know.
What?
You know.
On what?
Did you say I will give you fellatio?
Well, I mean, it's Trey Songz.
He should already know that.
Like, it's not.
True, true.
You got a point.
Listen, you're making a valid point.
Girl, this is not.
Okay.
My goodness.
Anyway, just leave him alone.
Don't expect anything.
Continue to be a fan and a supporter and just chill.
Juicy, you got to, for things like that,
you really have to call on people that are very close to you,
not somebody that you've met three times.
Yeah, you can't.
When I told my grandma,
she just was like, oh my God, it's the end of the world.
So I stopped telling people.
I was like, oh, well, I can't tell nobody else.
Because she started crying. She's like, oh, you're going to die.
So I was like, if I tell anybody
else close to me, I don't want to tell my brother.
She says she has a lump.
Oh, you got breast cancer?
She doesn't know. She got a lump. It's a she has a lump. Oh, you got breast cancer. She doesn't know. She got a lump.
You have breast cancer?
It's a lump in my breast.
She doesn't know what it is.
Well, you don't know what it is, but I say this.
You need to go to the damn doctor, not Trey Songz.
I did go to the doctor.
I made two appointments, and that's why I told him.
I was like, hey, could you come meet for the one where she's going to give you the result?
So she was waiting on Trey Songz to go to the doctor.
Girl, just go handle your business and worry about yourself, okay?
Hey, Ashley, if you don't hang up on this dumb ass girl.
Oh my God. Jesus Christ.
Juicy, good luck to you, man.
I would have mercy. We hope that you don't have
breast cancer. You be trying to have patience
with these people and then you talking to them
and as soon as you call it stupid, you
the bad guy. That was the dumbest thing
I ever heard in my life. Juicy, if you're listening,
hit up Charlamagne and hit up Yee and ask them to go
with you. I'm not coming with you. Charlamagne busy. I got two daughters. I work hard. I got a lot of my mother. Stop it. Stop it. Calm down. Hit up Charlamagne and hit up Yee and ask them to go with you. I'm not coming with you.
Charlamagne's busy.
I got two daughters.
I work hard.
I got a lot of other things that I got to deal with.
With your little entitled ass.
Charlamagne, get out of here, okay?
That's crazy.
All right, we got more coming up next.
We're The Breakfast Club.
The Breakfast Club.
Good morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club as C&E.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, this is Annie from Orlando.
Annie, what's up?
Hey, I love Orlando.
My aunt lives in Orlando.
What's your question for C&E?
All right, so I'm calling in because I've been with my boyfriend for 12 years,
and we're not married.
I'm really frustrated. I'm a professional,
a go-getter. I'm beautiful. And I just don't understand why I can't get him to seriously
think about and consider marriage as soon as possible. Let me, let me, let me handle this.
Do you have kids? Hold on. Do you have kids? Let me handle this one. Any kids? Mommy got kids?
I have children. He does not. All right. Let me handle this one. Uh kids, mom? You got kids? I have children.
He does not.
All right.
Let me handle this one.
I've been with my wife.
I was with my wife since 1998.
I proposed to her in 2013.
So you do the math.
From 1998 to 2003.
All right?
So, you know, it just takes us a little bit of time.
Plus, you already got two kids.
So you know what I'm saying.
He may not want to take on all that baggage.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
But y'all been together 12 years, so I'm sure he loves those kids like they're his own.
So just give him some time, boo.
Do you live with him?
We live together, yes.
Y'all live together.
Has he been saving?
Maybe he's saving for the perfect ring and the perfect wedding.
Is that possible?
Listen, at this point, I don't even care about any of that.
I really don't.
You want to get married.
You want to get married.
I do.
I do.
Settling.
Settling.
That jello's starting to settle.
Don't stop it.
That jello's starting to settle.
Did y'all have the conversation yet?
We've been having the conversation for a long time.
And for me, I just want to make sure that he is solid. You know, I want to make sure he's sure.
I don't want to play any games. I've been together 12 years. If he's not going to marry you by now,
if you don't know by now, you ain't the one. How old are the kids? My oldest is 16.
Have the 16 year old. No, who's the youngest? What's the youngest one? The youngest one is 12.
Have the youngest one say, when. No, who's the youngest? What's the youngest one? The youngest one is 12. Oh, boy.
Have the youngest one say, when you going to marry my mama?
Straight like that.
I'm telling you.
Tell her today to walk up on daddy and say, when you going to marry my mama?
When you going to make an honest woman out of my mama?
Oh, stop it.
Have her stand like Cardi B is in that picture and put her hand on her hip and say, my mama
said you ain't going to make an honest woman out of her.
All right.
Okay?
No, but you know what?
For real, dog, for real. Yes. I'm at the point where I feel like it's either now or never.
I feel like I'm at the point where I want to move on.
Oh, how old are you?
No, I feel the same way.
I feel the same way.
Let's move on from this phone call.
I already told you what to do.
All right.
Have a good day.
Have a blessed day.
Hold the box for a little bit.
Don't let him get none of that box until he starts thinking right.
All right.
Thanks, Ethan. Oh, sorry. Hello, who's he starts thinking right. All right. Thanks, Ethan.
Oh, sorry.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, it's Jasmine.
Hey, Jasmine.
Ask C&E this morning.
Good morning, Jasmine.
I was asking because I've been single for two years,
and I'm just getting back in the dating scene.
And I've been kind of uncomfortable with dating now
because I don't really know how anymore.
So I want to know, like, what should I do?
What do you mean you don't know how to date?
All you got to do is show up, boo.
It's not that easy because
it's like little things that turns me off
about a guy. Like what?
I don't know. It'll be something that he says
or does or it's just, I don't know.
It'll be something petty, but I need to get past those
things. Have you been having
sex over the past couple years? Yeah.
Okay then. So if you can have sex,
you can date. How you been letting these guys get the box?
You just been giving it to them?
They ain't been calling you?
No, no, we been going on dates,
but I'm just saying that's hard.
They want to move to the next level,
but I'm not, like, ready.
Like, how do I?
How old are you?
I'm 27.
Oh, 27.
Okay, so you just playing the field.
You just having a little fun right now.
Yeah, pretty much.
You got three more years to be a hoe,
so, you know, call us back in three years.
I'm serious.
You got three more years. You got three more years to be a hoe. So, you know, call us back in three years. I'm serious. You got three more years.
You got three more years to go through your hoe phase.
After 30, you kind of can't hoe like you want to.
Okay?
So, should I just wait on making them, you know, want to go to the next level?
Or should I just do me?
Listen, man.
Just enjoy yourself.
Absolutely.
And if all else fails, just remember Laura Bencross.
Oh, stop it.
Enjoy yourself.
But I'm sure if that special somebody comes, you'll feel it.
You'll know what that feels like.
Okay.
All right.
Good luck.
All right.
Thank you.
You're welcome, Mama.
Tasha, good morning.
Good morning.
It's Ask C&E, Mama.
Yes, I was asking and wondering about premarital sex.
How do you guys feel about not getting that before marriage?
Oh, I mean, I had sex with my wife before we got married, and Charlamagne definitely
had sex with his wife. I think
you need to test it out. I mean, I think you need to
make sure that, you know, that you guys are compatibly
sexually, because you might get into a situation
where you hate it. You know, he might not
know what he's putting in his penis. He might put it in your
and you just don't like it.
I'm going to be honest with you. Premarital sex
is something that the white man created
to make the divorce rates in black communities go up
because we end up marrying people whose box was trash
and we didn't realize it was trash.
And you marry a man whose penis was trash
and you didn't know it was trash because you was waiting.
And now you're married and you got this whole big commitment,
so now you got to divorce him because the sex is trash.
You know what I mean?
I hear you.
Yeah, man. Yeah, man.
So have a blessed day.
And good luck.
Thank you.
Hope we answered your question. Hello, who's this? Patrice Jackson. Hey, Patrice, what you calling Yeah, man. Yeah, man. So have a blessed day. And good luck. Thank you. Hope we answered your question.
Hello, who's this?
Patrice Jackson.
Hey, Patrice.
What you calling for, mama?
I just calling to wish my husband, John Jackson, a happy 10th year anniversary.
John Jackson?
That's fabulous.
John Jackson from Port Springs, Florida.
Oh, oh, oh.
So what y'all doing?
10 years of marriage.
What are y'all doing tonight?
Oh, man.
Laura Bencroft.
Well, I'm also at work.
So I work 12-hour shifts a day.
So we will have to do something this weekend.
Where does he work at?
He works at Public Distribution Center.
You should take a long lunch break.
You should drive over to Public Distribution Center,
take him in the bathroom,
and give him a fellatio of no kind,
and then pat him on his ass and go back to work.
A fellatio of no kind?
He's like, don't religious to your radio station.
I know he's cracking up now.
What is fellatio of no kind?
Because I know he's listening.
He's going to say, you need to do what Charlamagne and DJ Envy said do.
You should do it.
It's your anniversary.
Surprise him.
Pop him at his job.
Push him in the bathroom.
Give him some great fellatio.
Smack him on his ass and say, have a great day.
Let me give you one more tip.
I'll take note.
Let me give you one more tip.
When he b****s off in that bathroom,
I want you to look him dead in his eyes and say,
Laura Bancroft.
Oh, my gosh. Goodbye.
Thank you for having me.
Everybody, it's DJ MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
It's time for Slander The Breakfast Club.
This is where we open up the phone lines
800-585-1051
and let you slander us.
Slander me, slander ye, slander Charlemagne.
Let's go to the phone lines.
Hello, who's this? It's Ace.
Ace, who you want to slander, bro? I'm going to slander
Angela Yee and her hate toward
Bill Cosby. What? Okay.
Well, this is my deal.
I do think Angela Yee got a little hate toward Bill Cosby
because she was raised by a black daddy,
and she don't understand the struggles that black men go through.
Some of that hate is, I miss out on my time.
What?
What are you talking about?
This is so ridiculous that it's amazing.
Go ahead, continue.
She goes hard against the black man
because she don't have a grounded relationship with what?
She find that first Asian man who give her a little love, she gonna get married.
I want to be more Asian, Lance.
I just support women who have been assaulted, that's all.
You could have kept Bill Cosby out of this and had a better point, sir.
If you hadn't said Bill Cosby.
Goodbye, man.
Goodbye. Goodbye.
Goodbye.
That just sounded so crazy.
You would have just kept Bill Cosby out of you.
Hello, who's this?
Ruby.
Ruby, who you want to slander this morning?
I kind of want to slander Charlemagne,
but then again, I want to kind of holler at him.
I'm right here, boo.
What you need?
You want to hook him or slander him?
It's a thin line. You can do both, boo. What you need? You want to hook him or slander him? Which one?
It's a thin line.
You can do both, boo.
I want to slander him because he thinks he know everything.
Like, give people a chance to talk when you know that you're right.
Just be right.
It's kind of like knowing you're right and don't say nothing.
But on the other flip side, you're sexy as hell.
Hey.
Two things can be true.
Mama, no. Two things can be true. Nope, nope. It's only slander, man. It's only sl Hell, my. Oh, my God. Two things can be true. Mama, no.
Two things can be true.
Nope, nope.
It's only slander, man.
It's only slander, mama.
What you like about me, though?
Hey.
Sound like she want you to be her girlfriend, too.
Hey.
Goodbye.
Don't be hanging up on people when they telling me I'm sexy for real.
Hello.
Okay, for real.
Ruben.
Yo.
Who you want to slander, bro?
Your boy, head by heart.
Damn. Which one? I'm the one. Which one? Charlamagne or slander, bro? Your bald head behind. Damn.
Which one?
I'm the one.
Which one?
Charlamagne or Envy, sir?
Which one?
Charlamagne, not Envy.
Oh, how are you, sir?
Good morning.
Yeah, what's going on?
I'm talking about, you know, slandering your punk behind because you talking about my daughter's
a thot when you did that A Boogie interview where nobody really know the whole story and
he already knew what it was.
But you sat there and asked that man what my daughter's a thot.
What A Boogie interview?
Yeah.
When he first started.
When you first had him up on the breakfast club.
Who's your daughter?
You only had A Boogie and Pimp once, I think.
What did he allegedly say about your daughter?
He called my daughter a thot.
Who is your daughter?
I don't know your daughter, sir.
His ex-girl, the one that he made his first album over that you asked him about.
Oh.
Did his music portray her as a thot? No, it's your
question that you portrayed her as a f***ing thot.
Excuse my language. What was the exact
question, sir? You asked him
what was she, a thot or anything, and both of y'all
just laughed about the situation. Like, my daughter's
some type of thot out there, and she's not.
Well, that's why
you asked the question. The question
is, was she a thot or somebody that you actually
liked? Actually, the boy's still in love with her, and the boy is still hitting her up,
but she shouldn't be talking about nobody's daughter when a lot of daughters out here got fathers.
Sir, I don't know what to tell you.
I asked the question.
I know you don't, but don't worry about it.
You'll be good.
You want to fight?
No comment.
Okay, all right.
He did say something that was true.
Every daughter has a father out there.
Yeah, but if I'm asking a question, if I say to A Boogie,
was that somebody you loved or was she a thought to you?
Let's go to one more.
You don't know how to answer that question?
I don't even remember the question.
Me neither.
I don't even know what you said.
I'm pretty sure that's what the question was.
Hello, who's this?
Yo, what up?
Spector, who you want to slander, man?
Yo, you, Envy.
That's who I want to slander, man.
You my man, 50 grand. You know what I'm saying? I remember you back in the day when you was on your to slander, man? Yo, you heavy. That's who I want to slander, man. You my man, 50 grand.
You know what I'm saying?
I remember you back in the day when you was on your star as DJ, man.
But damn, my dude, DJ B, I'm trying to hear the same music all the damn time, man.
You got Smith & Wesson out here with a new record that's fire,
and I ain't hear nobody playing it.
What record you want to hear?
Let's go.
I want to hear that Smith & Wesson, Let It Go.
Let's go, man.
Smith & Wesson?
Salute to Smith & Wesson, man.
Bootcamp click.
You know what I'm saying?
We're going to do it for all the guys that wear denim jean shorts with Timberlands in
the summer here in New York.
You feel me?
You already know.
You already know.
Yeah, yo.
The ones that still walk around with the razor blades under their tongue.
Oh, my goodness.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, my goodness.
All right.
I got you.
DJ B, that's what I need, son. Yo, we got you. We got you, son. Don't even worry about it. You's what I need, son.
We got you.
We got you, son.
Don't even worry about it.
You know what I'm saying?
I called my brother's son because he's shining like one.
What?
All right.
Send it to Breakfast Club.
800-585-1051.
Keep it locked.
We have more coming up next.
It's the Breakfast Club.
My name is DJ Envy Angela Yee.
Charlamagne Tha God.
We are the Breakfast Club.
Now, Charlamagne, leave us on a positive note.
Listen, man, the positive note of the day is simply this.
The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life
and making the most out of every day.
Breakfast Club, bitches!
You all finished or you all done?
Had enough of this country?
Ever dreamt about starting your own?
I planted the flag.
This is mine.
I own this.
It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy.
55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete.
Or maybe not.
No country willingly gives up their territory.
Oh my God.
What is that?
Bullets.
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