The Breakfast Club - GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS!
Episode Date: October 5, 2016WED 10/5 - The Breakfast Club is joined by Lena Dunham, the writer & star of HBO's hit show "GIRLS". They discuss everything from the upcoming final season and what's next, to her sex life and roc...ky relationship with black twitter! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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 of concrete.
Or maybe not.
No country willingly gives up their territory.
Oh my God.
What is that?
Bullets.
Listen to Escape from Zakistan.
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As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions,
but you just don't know what is going to come for you.
Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.
I forgive myself.
It's okay.
Have grace with yourself.
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The world's most dangerous morning show.
The Breakfast Club.
Man, what the hell is this, man?
Breakfast Club, bitches.
I'm glad they put y'all together. Y'all are like a mega force. Y'all just took over everything. Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club. Man, what the hell is this, man? Breakfast Club, bitches.
I'm glad they put y'all together.
Y'all are like a megaforce.
Y'all just took over every... Wake your punk ass up.
This is Chris Brown.
I've officially joined The Breakfast Club.
Say something, mother...
I'm with it.
The world's most dangerous morning show.
Breakfast Club, USA.
You're not going to do that again.
What are you doing, man?
Do it again, do it again, do it again.
Do it again.
This guy over here.
All right.
He's actually, he was here.
I don't know why he walked up the room.
Here we go again.
Good morning, USA. It is. Guess what day it is. Hump Day. I can't even see the hell you're aiming at.
Let me see, though.
I ain't got no headphones.
My headphones all broke, too.
I ripped my headphones in here, horsing around.
I just plugged.
I plugged in my Beats by Dre.
They're not working, so now I got to use these.
Those are Cali joints, right?
No, they used to be Cali joints.
Cali got what Apple and said, FDs.
Oh, at least I can hear.
Okay.
Okay, here we go.
All right.
Well, good morning, everybody.
It is Wednesday. It is Hump Day. Hopefully, you guys. At least I can hear. Okay. Okay, here we go. All right. Well, good morning, everybody. It is Wednesday.
It is hump day.
Hopefully you guys had a great night last night.
Had a little date night with the wife.
Sometimes you got to do that.
Oh, you still got to date your wife.
Absolutely.
Salute to Steve Harvey for putting that out there constantly.
Absolutely.
You got to date your wife.
I was kind of mad that Nate Parker's movie wasn't out last night,
so I could take her to go see it last night.
But we're just going to have to wait until the weekend and go see that movie.
Yeah, that's a good viewing middle-of-the-week movie.
It comes out tomorrow, though.
Thursday at midnight.
Thursday at midnight.
Nate Parker will be here tomorrow, though.
Yeah, he'll be here tomorrow.
He'll talk about everything.
I'm excited about that.
Did you watch the BET Hip Hop Awards last night?
I seen some of it.
I didn't watch the full show in the full amount,
but I went in and out.
I've seen some of the freestyles,
the raps, the cyphers.
Cyphers were kind of weak this year.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It was a few that was really dope.
Like, the very first one
that they played
was really, really dope.
Who'd you thought killed it?
I thought Young M.A. killed it.
I thought Young M.A. got busy.
Young M.A. killed it.
Who really got busy, busy to me?
That's yours.
I brought that for you.
Davies.
Davies got busy.
Davies killed it.
The first white dude,
I think his name was
Millsy or something.
Yeah, he killed it.
From like Boston
up to here.
He was dope.
I don't know.
None of the disciples
really stood out to me this year.
Man, I miss the BET Awards.
And I don't say you can have
a state property cypher
without young Chris.
And I guarantee you
that all,
I guarantee you
the only reason he wasn't there
is because somebody in the group
doesn't like him.
That's true.
And they probably all...
Wait, Wayne was in a cypher also?
Him and Kevin Hart was playing around.
I think Wayne was serious, but Kevin Hart was playing around.
Kevin's chocolate drop was definitely playing around.
I didn't really know Beanie Segal.
I guess losing that lung affects his voice and everything.
Man, you so late.
I know. I'm sorry.
You kind of need your lungs to breathe and stuff.
I know, but I didn't know how to defend my voice.
That's the first time I really heard him do a rap, like a full rap.
The one lung killer.
Yeah, the one lung killer.
I had to host a movie screening last night.
That's your new gig.
You'll be hosting a movie screening.
Well, this one was in Jamaica, Queens.
Oh, Southside?
Yeah, it was called Pray Before You Eat 2.
Okay, well, you know Jamaica, Southside.
Pray Before You Eat 2.
That's a sequel?
Yeah, it's a part two.
Never heard of part one.
I never heard of part one.
And it actually ends with, well, I can't tell you.
Forget it.
I'm not going to watch it.
Let me just tell the people out in Queens.
Southside, Queens was a bad area growing up.
It's from where Supreme is from, where 50's from.
Who are these people you're talking about?
You know who 50 Cent is.
Oh, you know 50 Cent.
Who's Supreme?
Supreme.
You know, Supreme, the drug dealer
Supreme. We're talking to the country, not New York.
A lot of people know who Supreme is.
Yeah, they think it's a clothing line.
No, they don't.
But anyway, in the South Side of Jamaica.
That's why Queens reigns Supreme.
They changed the name of Jamaica South Side.
It's now Jamaica Heights.
The value of the house is up there, going up extremely.
So you could grab a house really, really cheap in
Jamaica, Queens right now. Real estate tip.
Yeah, real estate tip. Just to give people
a little help. Alright, well
let's get the show cracking. Front page news.
We'll give you some updates on Hurricane
Matthew as it heads toward the United
States. We'll tell you what happened when it
hit Haiti yesterday as forecasters
predicted where
it's going to be hitting later on this week.
And we'll talk about the vice presidential debate.
We've got a special guest today.
She's the creator of Girls.
Yes.
Oh, that's our show.
Lena Dunham will be here this morning.
Lena Dunham will be joining us this morning.
So keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Here's Riri.
Everybody, it's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Let's get in some front-page news.
Now, in sports, baseball.
The Blue Jays beat the Orioles 5-2 in extra innings to advance in the playoffs.
Now, where do the Mets play tonight?
The Mets play tonight, so good luck to the Mets fans out there in the Mets, all right?
Let's talk about Hurricane Matthew.
Yes, Hurricane Matthew is going toward the southern Bahamas this morning.
After leaving Haiti, they left 11 people dead on the path toward the United States.
Forecasters are predicting it would reach Florida's Atlantic coast and South Carolina later on this week.
Right now, five of the people that died were in Haiti.
So we told you there have been 11 deaths altogether.
The storm also did hit Cuba, but there was no immediate reports of major damage there.
But Florida and South Carolina are preparing to evacuate more than one million people.
Wow.
That's horrible.
They're saying it's the most powerful storm in almost a decade here.
The crazy part is you can't even say anything about, you know, natural disasters.
Like, what do you tell people?
It's like all you say is you pray for them.
It's a natural disaster.
There's nothing you can do.
Now let's talk about the debate, the vice presidential debate.
Right, Mike Pence and Tim Kaine got into it.
Of course, they talked about their running mates a whole lot.
That was on last night?
Yeah, that was on last night.
I was watching the BET Hip Hop Awards because I'm a real one.
I don't know about no BP.
I'll tell you, I watched part of it.
It wasn't the most exciting thing in the world.
They were pretty calm.
They did interrupt each other
a lot as well. But Cain,
I think the main difference, and according
to CNN, they're saying
the main takeaway is basically
that Cain is talking about President
Obama, all the jobs that were created,
15 million jobs, the median
income is rising, and Pence is saying
that it's not just a sunny side.
People are still struggling and the economy is struggling.
So what they're saying is just a very half-empty, half-full.
At this point, can we just get to it?
Everybody should know who they're voting for by now, right?
Yeah, I don't know if this is going to change your mind either way.
I mean, what, a month and a few days away?
Right.
November 8th?
Like, come on.
Like, come on.
Beat the hip-hop awards on last night.
All right.
Get your priorities straight. Get your priorities straight, people on last night. All right. Get your priorities straight.
Get your priorities straight, people.
Goodness gracious.
All right.
Well, that's front page news.
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Call us right now.
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We'll put you live on the air if something's bothering you.
And yes, Lena Dunham will be here next hour.
I don't know why people are tweeting and texting like we have to lie.
Why are we live here? How do we ever lie? Explain to people who Lena Dunham will be here next hour. I don't know why people are tweeting and texting like we have to lie. Why would we lie to y'all?
How do we ever lie to y'all?
Explain to people who Lena Dunham is.
She's the creator and writer of Girls.
I don't know what else to tell you.
Girls in the last season is coming up next year.
So that's going to be the final season of Girls.
Right.
So we'll kick it with her next hour.
But right now it's Tell Them Why You're Mad, 800-585-1051.
If you're upset, you need to vent, call us now.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.
Hey, yo, hey, yo, hey, yo. Good morning.
This is Matt Rapp. I'm gonna tell you why, man. I'm gonna tell you why
I'm mad. I'm mad because I hung out in the club last night
and there was too many good girls in there. Yo, for real, we don't
need none of y'all good girls in the club. We need loose girls.
We need drunk girls. We need sloppy girls. We need
girls that's just gonna call away. We don't need none of y'all nice girls
in there. Go home. Go away.
Talk about it.
And tell me why you mad.
Breakfast Club, for real.
I'm mad, man.
I want to talk about some hip-hop things, man.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Here we go.
Let's go.
Shouldn't we have a hip-hop hall of fame?
We should.
That's why I don't like the rock and roll hall of fame.
Like, I hate when they put hip-hop artists in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Hip-hop is the biggest, probably the biggest genre of music in the past 30 years.
But we don't support the older artists.
But we got to. I mean, you're right, but we don't.
You know, in rock and roll, they support
the older artists. Here, we don't.
We got to come together as a whole
hip-hop nation and create that so we
can see that someplace we can go
and actually see that
every five years having inductees
to the Hall of Fame and stuff like that. I got some hood bread, but I inductees to the Hall of Fame. I agree.
Stuff like that.
I got some hood bread, but I ain't got that type of bread.
Man, listen.
I'm going to start it on Facebook today.
Yo, please.
I'll do it too, but I ain't got that much pull.
You know what I'm saying?
Hip Hop Hall of Fame starting on Facebook today.
You a fool.
Hello, who's this?
Yo, as bad as I am, you might as well call me Incredible Hulk.
Uh-oh.
Okay, why should we call you Incredible Hulk, bro?
My alleged homie, who I will now refer to herein as a fat sack of saccharine.
Okay, my mother decided to give him a lift to the store.
An old boy pulls out his Sheboygan skin and proceeds to play with it in her car.
How old is he?
Probably like 30.
Damn.
I've been knowing him for like 17 years, and he would have the nerve to do something like that.
You know, that's like grounds to do something so illegal.
I can't even say it. Yeah, you owe him five minutes.
You just go whoop his ass.
That's crazy.
How do you know your girl ain't pull it out for him?
There wasn't nobody in the car but him and my mother.
He said his mother, not his girl.
His mother.
Hey, mama got to have a life too.
Was mama offended?
No, that is very offensive.
That's disrespectful.
Of course she was offended.
That's disgusting.
That's what she told you.
You know how many guys pull their thing out on the train?
I've seen cab drivers when I was younger driving past and they just pulled their thing out.
It's disgusting.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
That's because you're fine.
Oh, so your mama not fine?
Your mama not fine.
That's what you're saying?
Hello, who's this?
Hi, this is Taylor Martin.
Hey, Taylor Martin.
Where you calling from? I'm calling from New Jersey. Hey, Taylor Martin. Where you calling from?
I'm calling from New Jersey.
All right.
Why are you mad this morning?
I'm mad because I have a 25-page paper due, and I'm just starting it today.
What does it do?
And it's due today.
That sounds like how I used to be in school.
Now, let me ask you this.
What's the paper on?
Police and brutality and how we feel about it.
Oh, that's easy.
You should be able to knock that right out. Yeah, you should be able to knock that out ASAP. It's going to be about it. Oh, that's easy. You should be able to
knock that right out.
Knock that out ASAP.
It's going to be mad
exclamation marks,
mad capital letters.
You're going to be screaming
at people through the paper.
Go ahead with that paper,
mama.
Get it done.
What college you go to?
What school you go to?
William Patterson.
William Patterson.
Shout out to Willie P.
Hey, send us your paper.
I'm going to proofread it.
Hello, who's this?
Dina.
Hey, Dina.
Tell them why you're mad. Where you calling from? I'm calling from Greenville, Florida. All paper. I'm going to proofread it. Hello, who's this? Dina. Hey, Dina, tell them why you're mad.
Where you calling from?
I'm calling from Greenville, Florida.
All right, why you mad, mama?
Go to work every day, and at work,
there's this one person that stinks really bad.
Ooh, I know that feeling.
You going to tell them today?
You going to tell them today?
I told them, and they just don't listen.
They just don't listen.
They be like, no, it ain't me.
It ain't me.
You need to complain to management. We did. We did, and they just don't know. They're like, no, it ain't me. It ain't me. You need to complain to management.
We did.
We did, and they just don't know how to approach the people.
I would just keep telling them you stink.
But they just don't get it.
It's a damn shame when people can't smell themselves, right?
Mm-hmm.
You're supposed to be the first one to smell yourself.
And we're doing exercises.
The exercises is the worst.
You got to really smell it.
Yeah, but sometimes you get used to that smell.
Like, you know, when you go to the zoo, at first you walk in, it stings, but then your
nose gets adjusted and then you don't even know it smells anymore.
Yeah.
All right.
Tell them why you're mad.
800-585-1051.
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It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
The Breakfast Club.
That was Bryson Tiller with Exchange.
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy,
Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are
The Breakfast Club. Now, next hour,
Lena Dunham will be joining us.
Now, to the people who don't know, explain who Lena
Dunham is, because I really didn't know.
She created the HBO show Girls.
She plays the character Hannah on the show, but she also created...
She's a writer.
She has this Lenny Letters that she does.
She's a self-proclaimed feminist, so the Lenny Letters are all for feminists.
She's won Golden Globes.
She's won Emmys.
She's huge.
Okay.
Well, she loses weight.
Oh.
Not that huge.
She's huge in that world.
Yes.
And the show Girls is based on what?
Four girls that live and grow up in Brooklyn?
Yeah.
Yep.
Plus their friends surrounding them, but not like a glamorous Brooklyn life.
Not a trafficking.
It's like the struggle, the real struggle.
Right.
Yeah, I've been a fan of Girls for a long time.
Black women have an issue with Lena Dunham.
They say that she's a feminist, but she doesn't include black women when it comes to talking
about equality for women.
Like, she's only up for white women's equality.
Okay.
All right.
So we'll definitely talk to her.
We'll talk to her next hour.
Now, also, we got rumors on the way, Yee?
Yes, we are going to talk about somebody else,
another artist who says that he is suffering from depression.
Okay.
And we'll talk about Halle Berry.
Remember we told you yesterday that Ric Flair said that-
Smashed?
Yeah, he smashed.
Well, we'll tell you how
she responded. Okay.
We'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
The Breakfast Club.
This is
The Rumor Report with Angela
Yee.
On The Breakfast Club.
Well, apparently Kid Cudi's going through a lot.
He just checked himself into rehab, and that is for depression and suicidal urges.
He posted a message on his Facebook.
He said, I haven't been at peace since you've known me.
If I didn't come here, I would have done something to myself. I simply am a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions every day of my life.
There's a raging, violent storm
inside of my heart at all times.
He goes on to say, my anxiety and depression
have ruled my life for as long
as I can remember, and I never leave the house
because of it. I can't make new friends
because of it. I don't trust anyone
because of it, and I'm tired of being held back
in my life. I deserve to have peace.
Remember that little rant Cudi went on a couple weeks ago when he was coming at Drake and Kanye?
That had nothing to do with Drake and Kanye and everything to do with Cudi.
That's why a lot of times when people come at you, you can't take things personal because oftentimes it's not you, it's them.
I'm glad he checked in, though.
He said, I give so much of myself to others, I forgot that I need to show myself some love, too.
I think I never really knew how.
I'm scared.
I'm sad.
I feel like I let a lot of people down.
And again, I'm sorry.
It's time I fix me.
I'm nervous, but I'm going to get through this.
Yeah, Cudi was just lashing out because he was going through it.
But at least he knows he needs help.
And he went to go get that help.
And we always talk about how people suffer from depression and things like that.
And he said he had suicidal urges.
You never really know what somebody's going through.
I'm glad pride didn't keep him from checking himself in.
Because most times, like, no, I got this.
I can take care of it myself.
But I'm glad he checked himself in.
I hope he gets the help he needs.
Right, and he said he was ashamed, too,
because it has to be difficult to be out and open about that.
Embarrassing as well, yeah.
He said, I'm ashamed to be a leader and hear it of so many
while admitting I've been living a lie.
So we'll keep our eye out for Kid Cudi
and let you know what's going on with him.
But he has checked into rehab.
All right, Wiz Khalifa,
he is starting a clothing line to launch apparel
that is inspired by Sebastian, okay?
It's called Bash,
and he's working with Junk Food Clothing
for the new release of his Bash collection.
All the designs are based around Sebastian,
all of his hobbies and the things that he's into.
I just really wanted it to feel personal to him,
so when he sees it, he gets excited.
He's three years old, so he might not understand the concept
of having his own clothing line, but the fact that all of his favorite things
are all over his clothes, it makes him feel special.
It makes him entertained by what he's wearing.
That's cute.
That's dope.
That's a super cute thing.
All right, Ric Flair versus Halle Berry.
Who would have seen this battle coming?
Now, this all started with Ric Flair versus Halle Berry. Who would have seen this battle coming? Now, this all started with Ric
Flair on his show, talking about
how he actually
had Halle Berry on Space
Mountain. Any celebrity riders
of Space Mountain?
Several dozen. We're going to get any names today?
Do you want me to start with Halle Berry or what?
Oh, Halle Berry rode Space Mountain.
Of course
she did. She was in Atlanta and she just got divorced from Dave Justice.
Are you telling a real story right now?
Do what I have to make up a lie.
Lame.
Kissing and telling is so lame.
I don't care how much of a fan I am of yours.
It's lame, yo.
Why?
I don't care what your penis was.
Halle Berry responded.
She said that it never happened.
Her rep shut it down, said there is no truth to this.
Halle has literally never even heard of him.
That's a lie.
Now, come on now, Halle.
I think Ric Flair might have died.
I think Ric Flair might have crashed.
That's a lie.
She never heard of him.
Now I think Ric Flair.
You never heard of Ric Flair.
Now you lying.
I mean, he's in Atlanta after Dave Justice.
I don't know.
Ric Flair never probably heard of Baps, but you heard of Ric Flair.
Now, one source said a man doesn't get to sexualize and lie about a woman he's never met to better himself or his name.
It's offensive, demeaning, and beyond misogynistic.
Now, Ric Flair, in response, then posted a picture.
Of them together in bed?
A video that he took in Atlanta, which is where he allegedly, you know, says he had sex with her in Atlanta.
Over the weekend, he captioned it, I was right on Sunday, so I think we all know that Nature Boy ain't a liar.
Ric Flair, maybe he masturbated and thought about Holly Berry.
A lot of guys think they smash when they think about you.
Shut up.
When they're doing that.
Or she's saying she never met him.
Maybe she hooked up with him and didn't know who he was.
That's true, too.
So Holly's a hoe?
No, I'm not saying that.
Why does that make you a ho?
It doesn't make you a ho.
To sleep with just some random guy you don't know and don't remember? Maybe she didn't know who Ric Flair was.
I don't think.
I personally don't think Holly moves like that.
You'd be more of a ho for sleeping with somebody just because of who they are.
No, I don't know.
That don't sound right.
I don't know.
I'd rather you sleep with me for who I am than just be some random stranger.
Hey, you! Come here.
No. I'll pass. I'm married.
Maybe they met, they went to the club, had a great
night, had a lot of chemistry.
That's highly buried. Yeah, you can't be out there sleeping with random
strangers. If I catch an STD, I at least want to know
where it came from. Well, anyway.
Is that all you're thinking about? I'm saying, that's the least I want
to know. The least.
All I know is, it is a very odd story.
How do you explain a random case of gonorrhea?
You just can't.
Who you got that from?
I don't know.
Some strange in the club.
Well, how do you explain a purposeful case of gonorrhea?
At least I know who it was.
I'd rather be able to say, yes, it was Ric Flair that gave me this gonorrhea.
We're keeping that.
That's Lisa.
All right.
Well, that is your rumor report.
I'm Angela Yee.
Thank you, Miss Yee.
When we come back.
No better guy to get gonorrhea.
Right?
Lena Dunham will be joining us when we come back.
She's the creator of Girls.
Creator star.
She ever had gonorrhea.
Writer.
All that.
We'll do that when we come back.
Keep it locked.
This is The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
That was for free.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. And Charlamagne is the only, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.
We got a special guest in the building.
And Charlamagne is the only guest that I've seen Charlamagne offer somebody tea or water.
That's not the only guest I've ever offered tea or water.
I actually have never seen him do that either.
Would you like some tea?
Would you like some water?
But that's usually because I offer liquor.
Why did you offer her some liquor?
I just noticed the bar.
I knew about the bar, but I didn't fully know about the bar.
You have Lena Dunham here.
Do you want some of that?
You seem like a cognac drinker.
I've never had cognac.
Really?
Do you drink?
I drink like a quarter of a glass of wine, pass out, do things no one wants to talk about,
throw up, and carry on.
Like I'm the easiest drunk in the world.
Got you.
So what's your advice, Lena?
Because you don't seem like you have any inhibitions.
Like you just, you get naked when you feel like it.
I do.
So what do you, that's just you?
I take a small amount of Klonopin prescribed by a doctor.
You know, a little bit of Class C drugs.
Never hurt anybody.
That's for OCD, right?
That's for my, yep.
Anxiety.
That's for anxiety and OCD.
So if I need it, what are my other advices?
I like to shop.
I try to keep it under control.
Got you. And I like to nap. I try to keep it under control. Gotcha.
And I like to nap.
Great.
I don't know.
Napping is good.
Napping is good.
Sleeping is good for you.
I've been thinking about getting an Adderall game.
I'm not going to lie.
Why?
But yours seems so focused.
I know.
But everybody around me is like, people that I didn't know were on it are on it. And they're like, yo, it helps my focus.
And I'm like, wow.
I feel like everyone I know who's on Adderall has like a great three weeks and gets like
pretty cracky.
Why would you take something you don't
really need? I don't want you to fall
apart at the seams. You're so in it right
now. Stay in it. Okay. That would be
my advice.
You did homework for the show and you actually watched
some interviews. I did. Who asked you what
interviews did you enjoy? What did you like?
Well, I just love watching you guys do your thing.
And it's so much more about sort of like all of your connection
than it is even about the guest.
But two interviews, I particularly enjoyed the Post Malone interview.
I don't know why.
I just like, maybe it's like the angry college girl in me
just like seeing a couple of people like stick it to a long-haired white guy.
Like that's just something that gives me pleasure.
Okay.
And then I watched the Brandy interview,
which I've always been a massive Brandy fan since Moesha.
So I was just liked how like serious it got
and how deep you got in there.
Although you said that it became a little tense.
She was upset after.
She was upset.
She cried.
Yeah, you know,
she was accused of vehicular homicide at one point.
I have a list going in my head of all the celebrities.
It's homicide. And it's vehicular. Yes. What'd I say? You said vehicular homicide at one point. I have a list going in my head of all the celebrities. It's homicide.
And it's vehicular.
Yes.
What'd I say?
You said vehicular homicide.
People know what I meant.
But what I was saying was, like, you know.
Homicide is something different that I hope none of us have done.
That sounds very, that sounds like a hate crime.
Yeah.
I don't know.
We don't want to be a part of it.
Definitely not a hate crime.
Say homicide.
Homicide.
There you go.
Yes.
But people always tease her about that on social media.
You know, people are cruel on social media.
So they constantly remind her.
I would have no idea about that.
I've never seen anybody tease her about that.
What?
They send her pictures of car wrecks and everything.
How did you even notice that?
I've never heard of that either.
There's a list on Wikipedia.
I will tell you this.
I do not have a driver's license.
And I am a 30-year-old woman.
Never got it.
Grew up.
I grew up like 10 blocks from here. Never got a driver's license. Typical New 30 year old woman never got it grew up I grew up like 10 blocks
from here
never got a driver's license
typical New Yorker
can you swim?
I can swim
my mom made sure of that
she made me learn to swim
in a public pool
that literally had like
pieces of human shit
at the bottom of it
but she was like
you will learn to swim
definitely won't drown in that
no
but
I was taking driver's ed
in LA
and then I made the mistake
of going down
the Wikipedia rabbit hole celebrities who have killed people with their cars and I was taking driver's ed in L.A. and then I made the mistake of going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole,
celebrities who have killed people with their cars.
And I was like, you know what?
Why would you look that up?
Like, what made you Google rat?
I was, honestly, I saw Rebecca Gayheart out somewhere
and I was like, what is it about Rebecca Gayheart that I remember?
Oh.
I don't want to ever join this Wikipedia list
and I feel like I really would if I was given my license.
So I'm going to continue this
Uber lifestyle for as long as it'll happen.
You know what? Thank you.
Your thoughts become things.
So if you're constantly thinking about, I'm going to kill somebody in this car,
I'm going to kill somebody in this car, you might end up killing somebody in the car.
I don't think she thought she was going to kill somebody. She just said she didn't want to.
I kind of knew I was going to
kill somebody.
But there has to be times when you
go somewhere and it would be so convenient for you to get a rental.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
And there's so many times, especially before Uber, like when I would be in Los Angeles, you would have to call yellow cabs and take like 45 to 80 minutes.
It's not like New York where you just go outside and hail a cab.
No, I'd be like squatting in a Chick-fil-A crying, waiting for my car.
Like you need to be able to drive.
It's an adult skill.
And I don't want to be like a mom who can't drive my kids
to the hospital, but we'll get to that.
Now let's talk about girls. Oh, yeah.
Last season of Girls coming up. We just
wrapped four days ago. I saw your very
emotional letters that you were writing.
Does it feel over? You know, we still
have to edit it. We still have to promote it. But I
have to say that that last night, I was
weeping like a mother-believing
baby. I couldn't believe it just because it's been my
whole, I started writing the show when I was
23. I'm 30 now. Those are
all my, that's my family. Those are my
best friends. So it felt like
this crazy loss. And even though we can
all like go out to dinner, we've
formed this incredible culture and like
I woke up the next day and I was like, what do I even do
with myself? Who am I? Like I kind of walked
out into the street like, what do I do when I'm not on this television show?
I guess the answer is come to the Breakfast Club and bother you guys.
Why do you feel like it had to be the last season, though?
Because I felt like it could have continued on.
It's a great question.
I mean, I think it's like when people start a job so young, you have to give them room to grow.
And I'm including myself, but I'm also thinking about all the actors that I work with.
Like, their careers are taking off. Adam's
in Star Wars. Allison's starring in this movie
that's going to be amazing.
Jordan
Peel's movie, Get Out, which is coming out
in February. They all have,
I mean, Jemima's a painter. She has two kids.
Everyone has passions, and I want
to let them grow and develop. And I felt
like there was a certain point. I never
wanted to become that show where everyone's like, yeah, I'm just
going to my day job. We've had so much love
for it every day that we've done it
and I wanted to go out with us all still
having that connection and that passion for
what we do because I think it translates onto the
screen and it feels like the moment where it's like
we've kind of captured this magic energy
between us so let's finish out
the way we started and it was beautiful
like at the end we all cried, we all hugged, we were all like, you're my sister. And it was beautiful. At the end, we all cried. We all hugged.
We were all like, you're my sister. Give it three more
years and we all would have been like,
don't ever f***ing look at me again.
I can't believe you wore the same dress as me to this
award show. We never got into that zone.
Well, tell us what Girls is about for somebody
that doesn't know. I don't watch Girls. These guys talk
about Girls. I've been committed since
day one. You know, it's funny. People come to me and they be like,
you still watch Girls? And I'm like, yo, I'm committed to these characters.
Well, you know, Sean, I mean, you tweeting about it
was like a very big deal for all of us.
Really?
Yes, of course.
Because, you know, like, you know...
He's not a girl.
He's not a girl.
How many people call me gay for that?
You're gay.
You watch Girls.
I'm like, it's a show full of women.
It's a show full of naked women.
It's like the least gay thing you could ever do.
Yeah, Lisa Bonet was on last season.
How good did she look? Come on, man. Donna Glover was on. Well, tell us least gay thing you could ever do. Lisa Bonet was on last season. How good did she look?
Come on, man.
Donna Glover was on.
Well, tell us about this now.
Naked women.
It's a show about four girls,
now women,
who kind of come to New York
to make their fortune,
as so many do.
Brooklyn.
And then realize,
oh, this is not the sex
in the city world.
This is the world
where you can't even
find an apartment
that has enough room
for two people
and doesn't have rats.
So it's real.
So that was our goal.
Like the apartments are tiny.
Our actors barely wear makeup.
The sex isn't sexy.
It's just about what it feels like to be in your 20s and struggling and hustling and how
impossible it feels and how it causes you to be not that nice to your friends and destructive
in your relationships.
And so I would say like the most marked characteristic is that all
the characters are best friends but kind of
hate each other. Yeah, some
of those characters are kind of foul.
Yeah. In particular, Jessa.
She's a piece of work. I don't know if that could be
my friend. I'm just saying.
She started sleeping with Adam. Yeah, how'd you feel about that?
Um, I was happy for
Adam only because, you know, I'm a man.
So I'm like, oh, wow. Go. You know what I mean?
Yeah, she's very beautiful. Because y'all are supposed to be best friends.
But y'all were broken up.
Y'all were broken up, but it's still a girl cold.
But they were still sneaking around, which is
really, you know, at least. That's the thing. I was like, if
they had just come to Hannah and been like, listen,
we're in love and this is what we're going to do.
But they snuck around and then they made her find out
in this terrible way. At the end of the day, like,
I believe you can't come in and wreck a perfectly happy relationship.
I feel in my relationship with my boyfriend, we're very connected.
It would be very hard for, like, a woman to walk on the scene and just remove him.
Maybe I'm delusional and, like, he's literally, like, having sex with three people at home right now.
I don't know.
But what if Rihanna was like, I just want to have sex with him one time?
I'd be like, why don't you have sex with me one time?
Wow.
I'd be like, let's flip this situation.
You got to go through me to get to him.
Exactly.
All right.
We got more with Lena Dunham when we come back.
Keep it locked on, Nick.
All right.
The ham is silent.
All right.
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Good morning.
The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.
That was Jay-Z.
Excuse me, Miss.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Lena Dunham's in the building.
Now, Charlamagne.
It seems like you got a poppin' sex life because it reflects in your art.
I have to say this, which is that I do a lot of sexual stuff on television.
And I had an adventuresome early 20s.
I'm 30 now.
You went through your whole phase, as we call it.
I really went through it.
I posted a picture on Instagram the other day of me, and I was so tempted to be like,
I mean, I just wrote like, what a wild time.
But really, I wanted to be like, I was on Oxycontin and sex with four people this week.
But that's not information that anybody needs.
But, um,
but the fact is,
is that I actually,
I've been with the same guy
for five years.
I love him.
I adore him.
I would never talk about
our sex life publicly.
I respect him deeply.
And I'm actually weirdly
kind of, like, prudish.
Like, like,
I'll do anything on TV,
but, like,
if somebody says something
sexual to me in real life,
I, like, turn beet red. Like, I really have to. So in but, like, if somebody says something sexual to me in real life, I, like, turn beet red.
Like, I really have to.
So in real life, if a guy's like, you dirty little slut whore.
But on TV, it's like.
On TV.
And also in my early 20s, I think so much of it.
That made me hurt just now when you said that.
You dirty little slut whore.
What you talking about?
I also think, and I don't know if you connect to this, is, like, a lot of it in my early 20s was that I didn't love myself very much.
So anything that anyone brought
to the table I was like I guess
like I know like Monique has this bit she does
in Queens of Comedy where she talks about how like
if you're like a chubby girl
you have to just be up for anything sexually
like those she's like there's just you can't
make any rules because that's what you have to offer
fat girls be freaks no for real
that's what Monique says
and I remember watching that when I was like 22 and being like, I know what you're saying.
Like, I was like chubby, anxious, covered in pimples and just didn't feel like I had the right to say no or advocate for myself.
And so, so much of my life from 25 to 30 has just been being like, no, my worth is about more than my body.
And my worth is about more than whether I look like a supermodel. And so that's really freed me up to connect to myself,
to think, like, what do I want rather than, like, oh, I'm going to, like, you know,
crawl around on the floor for some guy who doesn't even know my last name.
I'm going to do some things I don't enjoy just so you can feel like I'm a freak.
So was getting naked, like, a defense mechanism?
Like, I even think back to, like, tiny furniture.
You was in your underwear a lot in that.
The fact that you even know about tiny furniture
makes me feel so alive. Thank you so much.
Yeah, I think
a lot of it was like, I know that I don't
have a traditional body. It's funny. My whole family,
my dad, my mom, my
sister, everyone is like
5'11 and like 30 pounds lighter
than me. My boyfriend's always like,
what mailman did your mom for you to come in?
Like, I'm just this, like,
I'm like,
this little, like, duckling following around
this, like, family of hot people. And so I
think I always felt,
like, literally, like, my sister's modeled, my mom
is, like, 67
and, like, we were out in the park a few weeks
ago and a guy came up to me and was like, love your
show. And then he came up to my mom and he was like, you're
beautiful. Like, like, started compliment complimenting me then hit on my mother got you
so i think i just and i was best friends with jemima who's now on the show who was like the
most beautiful still beautiful but like literally i would be out on the street with her when she was
nine months pregnant and she'd be getting hit on and i'd be like a perfectly nubile 22 year old who
was being ignored and so i think i had this feeling like I need to expose a body
that I know so many women have.
And it did make me feel strong.
And I'm sort of coming out of that phase now.
I don't need that in order to feel fully formed.
But there was this part of me that was just like, see me.
And don't just see me.
See all the women who look like me and understand that, like,
this is what a female body is.
Because what we see is not real and we all
know that and we're i think moving in a direction of people wanting to be more open about like what
the human form looks like but especially when we started girls five years ago like people had
like violent reactions to seeing me naked like repulsed reactions and i was like probably half
the guys who were so horrified about this this is what your girlfriend looks like this is what
your wife more than half this is what your mother looks like. This is what your wife looks like. More than half.
This is what your mother looks like.
Like, this is a body.
Even when you say traditional body, like, what is a traditional body?
Well, it changes based on history, but, like, right now,
but there is always a body that's in vogue.
So, like, I don't know what you would say.
You guys would know better as dudes, like, what the body that is.
I would say asses maybe a couple years ago was really in.
I mean, it was always in the hood, but...
Yeah, asses have been in now.
Although...
Waste trainers usually...
Yeah, waste trainers,
which I heard are not
very good for your inner organs.
Oh, they're killing...
They kind of crush your organs.
So many women dying
because of waste trainers.
No, I think they're dying
because of butt shots.
That too.
The butt shots thing
is really intense.
It was actually my boyfriend
who explained it to me
because he's a producer
and so he will be hanging out
in the studio
and hear girls like having these quiet
conversations like oh yeah I got these butt shots and I was like
sitting in my house and even me
I'm like this like feminist who hasn't even had my teeth
whitened and I'm like do I need butt shots?
It gets in your head.
It's illegal. The idea of a body that's
like idolized by American culture
so often it's being marketed towards women
and the fact is like I've been
30 pounds heavier than I am. I've been 20 pounds lighter. Amy Schumer said something similar it's being marketed towards women. And the fact is, is like, I've been 30 pounds heavier than I am.
I've been 20 pounds lighter.
Amy Schumer said something similar.
It's never stopped me from getting weight.
Like, it's just never, it's like, at the end of the day, I actually think that men are
accepting of a much, and women sexually are accepting of a much wider spectrum of bodies.
But what's being marketed to women in cosmetics ads and what's being marketed to women in
fashion magazines
is different and is destructive.
How did you get to doing writing?
Because it seemed like you had low self-esteem at one time.
It seemed like you weren't proud of your
body, but now it seems like you're super
proud of it. What turns your ass around?
Well, I'm not always proud of it. I definitely have moments
where I walk into the Golden Globes and I'm
eight inches shorter than everybody and I'm wearing
a giant sack and I'm like, how the did I get here?
And that I think you care about the opinions
of others too much, Lena.
Really?
Yes.
Like you're too in your head.
But don't you think as a writer,
you are more emotional
and a lot more maybe thinking about.
My dad always says this thing
because both of my parents are artists.
My dad's like artists have like,
and I'm sure you guys feel this
because you're creative people.
Like it's almost like your skin is another organ.
I mean,
your skin is an organ,
but it's like,
you feel everything,
right?
Like you're so raw.
And so I do feel,
so there's a part of me that doesn't give a,
which is why I do what I do.
But then there's also the part of me that just like wants people around me to
be happy and accept me and connect with me.
And those two things are kind of always doing battle and probably will be for a
long time.
I can,
you know, feel people's opinions on Twitter twitter i can feel people's opinions on the street
but in my art i'm like safe and i'm immune and i'm like it feels like almost like a superpower
when you're inside your work i don't know if you guys feel that way you're like absolutely it's all
about the work for me yeah like that's the most fulfilling feeling not the money or anything i
like creating great work which you do every day thank you It's interesting what you do because you're a feminist.
I am. So it's kind of like you're against
being objectified, but it sounds like you want to
be objectified just a little bit.
It's complicated and I think
a lot of women think that feminism
means having a clear perspective
on your own
sort of like strength and power at every moment
and I have a friend called Roxane Gay who wrote
an amazing book called Bad Feminist.
And what's so interesting about it is it's like
she's really looking at the fact that like
being a feminist is full of contradictions.
Just because I want to have it all
and just because I want to have equal pay,
equal rights, control over my reproductive rights
and a sense that I can walk into a room
and have the same kind of power
and not be dismissed because of the body
that I was born into.
There's also part of me that will never lose the sense that I want that kind of attention that I
was always told that women are supposed to have. So those two things, you can be a true blue
passionate feminist and still feel the pain and challenge of and rejection of being a woman in
this culture. And both of those things can live together at the same time. I don't know if you
ever feel that like you're like, I'm tough, I'm strong, I'm amazing.
And I also kind of, like, want someone to look at my butt
while I'm walking down the street.
Right.
But then if I say, Lena, you got a fat ass,
you'd be like, don't talk to me like that.
I probably actually wouldn't.
I'd probably be like, thank you.
Thank you.
I actually am not that.
It's one thing to say, like, you've got a fat ass.
I'd be like, thank you.
If you were like, you've got a fat ass,
and if you don't let me touch it,'m gonna tell everybody that you did x y I mean
like there's right there's shades and degrees like there's sexual harassment and there's like
making somebody feel beautiful woman and those two things and I think what's hard is like the
line is gray and it's messy and like we all have to find it for ourselves but like nothing makes
me feel better than when I come into work and And like one of the, you know, guys who I work with goes like, you look really pretty today.
And it's like, it's nice because I'm like, I already know you think I'm smart.
So thanks.
I still appreciate when somebody opens the door for me.
When a man opens the door, I can still say thank you.
My boyfriend's out on our first date.
He said, I'm not going to open the door for you because I'm a feminist.
And I respect that you can open the door for yourself.
And I said, I think that's lazy.
And you're going to start opening it for me.
Absolutely. Alright, we got more with Lena Dunham
when we come back. Keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
That was Love, Tory Lanez. Morning
everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela
Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast
Club. Lena Dunham's in the
building. Now let's talk about black people.
I'm in. When girls
first started, you got a lot of
controversy because they said you didn't have a lot of
black faces on there. Do you think you...
They said, especially in Brooklyn, where there's such a
diverse amount of
different races, they were like, why is there no black people?
Do you think you've made up for that over the seasons?
I'm not going to say that I've made up for it because I think
that what I really
will really be making up for is if we
can support female voices of color
the way that our voices have been supported.
Because I think everyone's criticism about girls
was totally valid,
but at the end of the day,
there need to be female...
That's why I'm so excited about Insecure and Issa Rae
is because it's like,
that voice needs to be on television.
It doesn't need to be my voice
telling the story of a black woman's New York experience.
It needs to be Issa getting to go deep and go personal about what it feels like for her to be a black woman,
a young black woman dating in Los Angeles right now.
And, you know, when I started the show, I was 23 and I literally I'm half Jewish and half Christian.
I wrote like two Jews and two Christians.
Like it was so close to home for me.
And I was writing these characters who were all in some way extensions of myself.
Yes, but looking back,
I never want to see another poster that's for white girls.
I don't think we need to live in a world where we have
a poster that's for white girls.
That being said, the fact is
the experience of being a young black woman in Brooklyn
is different than the experience of being a young white woman
in Brooklyn. And I wanted to write from a place of
accuracy and passion and understanding.
And so in the future I would
love to collaborate with and support
women who want to tell
their stories rather than
attempt to sort of co-opt their stories
so that I have the cast
that looks great on a poster. I'm glad you said that
because a lot of women of color feel like
you ignore them when it comes
to like feminism. I see articles where they say
you focus on feminism,
but you mean equality for white women and not black women,
women of color.
That's definitely a criticism that I've gotten.
And it's one of the main reasons,
again,
that I start that Jenny Connor and I started Lenny letters just to have a
diversity of voices and to say like,
I've been given this incredible gift.
She's been given this incredible gift to share what we have to say.
So how can we spread that?
And I have to say, like, over the six years of doing Girls,
I've learned so much about intersectional feminism.
I mean, it's like even though white women can sometimes feel like a repressed minority,
there's an entire subsection of issues that we can't even relate to,
like the sense that you have to be scared when your child leaves the house,
like the sense that you don't know if they're going to be able to come home, like the fact
that people are assuming that you're not capable of doing a specific kind of job.
Like, and so every conversation with some black women, huh?
Yeah, I mean, I have some really, I mean, I'm not trying to brag about it.
I'm not, but I have some amazing, amazing friends who are enlightened, complex, beautiful,
multifaceted black women who it shouldn't be
their job to educate me because it shouldn't be anyone's job to educate anyone. But they've been
there for me to have that dialogue. And I'm really blessed by that because I can't grow as a feminist
and I can't grow in my perspective if I'm not hearing all that feedback. And like, I feel like
just our whole job in life is to like evolve.
That's dope because I'll be watching
your social media
and when they get on you,
they get on you.
And I'll be like,
how is she ignoring
all these black women's tweets?
Well, part of it,
part of it is that
I don't run my own Twitter.
You don't?
No, I send my tweets
to someone because
it just got too violent.
So it's like,
I want,
so I say to her,
I'm like,
if there's a thoughtful tweet,
please send it to me
and I would love to respond.
But I can't go on there and comb through
all that because maybe there's going to be
five brilliant, interesting questions
from black women that I'd love to answer, but it's mixed with
like, hey, you piece of shit hoe, you should
be stoned in the street.
I'm going to fuck your dad. Like, I can't look through
all that stuff. It's too much.
So, like, I'm saying right here,
like, those are the dialogues that I want to have, and
especially as I've been out campaigning for Hillary Clinton, I've realized how important it is.
Like, I don't want to be, I'm going to Florida at the end of the month and North Carolina.
And I'm bringing an amazing and diverse group of women with me.
Because I was like, it's not enough and it's not cool to be out there as just like a solo white woman.
Being like, don't take away my reproductive rights.
Because that's not actually the biggest issue at stake in the election.
Lena has to go so we gotta wrap up.
Oh, really? I have to go?
What? I have show
questions galore but
I'll ask this one. There's some pictures of you
filming the last season.
Oh, yeah. And it looks like
there might be an addition or
is that a spoiler for everybody?
Well, let's just say, I'm just going with
the line, the pictures where people thought
I looked pregnant. Let's just say I ate a huge hamburger
and then find out. Not a hamburger.
Let's just find
out next season. I mean, I think if you look at the
pictures, it's pretty obvious what's going on.
The good thing is that like Girls isn't necessarily
a show that's all about the spoilers. Like, we're not
Game of Thrones. So, it's about
the connections between the people. So,
that's why, at first, when I saw the paparazzi, I was like,
oh. And then I was like, you know what? I'm just
going to stand here proudly because... Proudly
pregnant. What else can we do?
I had the best line. A guy said to me,
I was standing there
in the costume, shall we say, and he looked at me
and went, are you really pregnant? And I
said, no. And he said,
so what are you doing later?
And I was like, bold, sir.
And I was like, what if I'd said yes?
Would you also have asked me what I was doing later?
I liked it, though.
This is my show question.
Why did you turn your father gay on girls?
Personal experience or just?
My real dad is straight as hell.
He actually did say to me, he was like,
do you know how many people have asked your mom if I'm gay?
And he's like, do you know how many people have asked your mom if I'm gay? And he's like, do you know how many people have been like,
was your 40-year marriage a sham?
We always felt like there was something there,
like a complexity and a wrinkle as
to why Hannah was who she was, and it just
started, it made sense, fourth season for
that to come out, and the actor who did it, Peter
Squire, he did it so beautifully and so sensitively,
and I loved playing that
because it's like, she has to be an
adult. Like, she can't be a child about it. She has to go
like, you know what? I have to be there for my dad.
He's going through his transition. I'm an adult woman
and I can't make this all about me. So that was a really
fun storyline to play. And I also thought
it was dope that you owned up to the Odell thing too.
Oh my god, thank you. What happened with Odell?
Oh, gosh. She was in her head.
Her own security. I was in my own head.
I was in my own head.
It was a great lesson to me
in how your humor can be misconstrued.
Because to me, so many of my jokes
are about like being insecure in my body,
projecting onto other people.
But in the written word,
it did not translate.
Did he try to holler at you?
No, he did not try to holler at me.
He did the opposite of try to holler at me.
And I was at the Met Ball and feeling super self-conscious.
You know, when like Beyonce and Solange and five Victoria's Secret models and the Hadid sisters, everyone's at your table and you're sitting there.
And I just had this whole projected thought process of like, Odell doesn't want to be sitting next to me.
He doesn't want to be talking to me.
He thinks I'm garbage.
He thinks I look like a boy.
And so I thought all of that was coming across.
And it seemed like I was actually accusing him of some kind of misogyny and the other thing that I
was really grateful that women especially educated me about on Twitter was like I was unintentionally
perpetuating like the stereotype of like a black man as someone who will holler at anything that's
near him and that especially at this moment in history, we have to be hyper vigilant
about the way that we depict each other
because of how much darkness and tension exists
in this like Trumpified world that we're in.
So I apologized immediately.
I apologized to him privately.
I think he's the coolest.
I think he's an amazing dancer.
I respect his career.
As little as I know about sports,
I respect his career.
And I just will be much more careful
in the future about making
sure that my humor translates
and that it doesn't have in any way
like, it's not creating destructive images
for young black men.
So you think a lot of times when you have this self, this is my last
question, I promise. A lot of times when you have this self-victimization,
it's really just humor. It's not
you playing the victim. It's you just trying to be funny.
I thought it was the funniest idea in the world.
At the time, I was like, it's so funny.
I was dressed like a tiny boy and sitting next to Odell.
Of course, if I was a beautiful professional athlete
surrounded by singers and models,
that was who I would talk to,
not a tiny little man-woman in a tuxedo.
Stop saying that.
But when I explained it...
Stop saying that.
She melts you down herself.
And I explained it. It didn't sound like that.
And that's the fact is like you can't sit there complaining my joke didn't translate.
If your joke didn't translate, it means your joke wasn't funny and your joke didn't work.
And as a comedian and as a writer, you have to own up to that.
And the other thing is like I think his response was I don't want to have problems with anybody.
I'm like I really don't want to have problems with anybody.
And he said I don't know enough about the situation to comment on it.
He said something like that.
Which is totally great. Like that's good. He's living with anybody. He said, I don't know enough about the situation to comment on. He said something like that. Which is totally great.
Like, that's good.
He's living his life.
Right.
He's doing his thing.
He shouldn't be focusing on some dumb shit that I said.
All right, well, part two coming soon.
We look forward to having you back.
Yes, we're going to have Lena back.
It's a dream.
When the new season of Girls starts, you got to come.
The last.
Yeah.
You love yourself, right?
Yeah, I love myself.
I take so many nude mirror selfies.
There you go.
I love myself. I take so many nude mirror selfies. There you go. I love myself.
I love my bat.
I especially love my boobs.
But I also have a complicated relationship with all of it
because life is not one dimensional.
All you got to do is whisper to Jack, say, is my pussy fire?
If he says yes, you good.
Do you know what he would do if I said, is my pussy fire?
He'd be like, is your pussy on fire?
He would have no idea what I was talking about.
Do we need to get some water? Are you in danger? Are you in danger? is my fire? He'd be like, is your pussy on fire? He would have no idea what I was talking about.
Are you in danger?
Are you in danger?
Goodness gracious. Ladies and gentlemen,
it's Lena Dunham. Thank you.
What an honor. Live in the
dream. The Breakfast Club.
It's about time. I like this intro now.
Oh no.
Rumor report. Rumor report Rumor report, rumor report.
This is the Rumor Report.
Talk to him.
With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.
So last night at the BET Hip Hop Awards, Snoop Dogg got the I Am Hip Hop Award.
And guess who presented that to him?
That would be Kendrick Lamar.
Check it out.
He was the one who mastered the game through tests and challenges
and earned him the respect of a college professor, except his degree came from the streets. The
lesson of his impact was so, so heavy. He was able to put the young ones on game to help them avoid
the same pitfalls. Through his examples, we discovered our own transformative abilities
to make a mark on our art. It's revolutionary.
It's none other than Big Snoop Dogg.
His emergence in the game was authentic.
Blessed with an undeniable masterful flow.
And a unique style that forever shifted the perception of West Coast music.
Yes, and I don't know if you guys saw, but Dr. Dre also performed.
Dr. Dre performed?
I didn't see that. I didn't see that part.
What part did you see with Dr. Dre perform?
No, he was on the screen.
He did like a little video screen.
Oh, no.
Listen, I'm going to be honest with you.
I didn't actually see it because I was hosting.
Who told you that?
But I saw it online.
They said Dr. Dre performed.
Somebody lied to you.
They had like a video of Dre.
He was in the studio talking about Snoop.
I got hype.
I was like, I got to go look this up.
Nobody performed for Snoop.
Snoop, they did a montage to him when he was talking about him,
and he came up and accepted his award.
Well, I got to stop reading what people are saying online.
Yes, you do.
I thought I missed him.
I was like, I thought I saw you.
I salute to everybody that wakes up and lets social media dictate how they think for the day.
No, I didn't see it on social media.
I actually saw it in an article.
I don't know what website.
Please stop following that wack-ass website.
I'm looking at it right now.
What website that was?
Hold on.
You sure it wasn't with Drake when Drake brought him out the other night? I'm looking at it right now. What website that was? That line. You sure it wasn't with
Drake when Drake brought him out the other night?
I'm looking. Hold on. Let me find it. I'll find it
but I'll tell y'all. I'm just telling you.
I'm telling you that didn't happen. I thought it definitely didn't happen.
I told you guys I didn't see the Hip Hop Awards though last
night because I wasn't home so I got to catch up on everything.
My bad. I watched.
Kendrick won lyricist of the year too. I thought
Chance the Rapper should have got it this year but
Okay. Yeah. Alright now let's talk about Kim too. I thought Chance the Rapper should have got it this year, but... Okay.
Yeah.
All right, now let's talk about Kim Kardashian.
I'll give you an update on this.
The concierge is the person now that they are saying is the critical witness.
Yeah, of course.
Now, that is because that concierge was handcuffed,
and he opened the door to her apartment.
She said that he was extremely calm throughout the whole situation. She actually engaged him in conversation, asking him, are we going to die?
And he calmly responded, I don't know.
So she made a really big point to point out to the cops that he was so calm,
even though he was handcuffed and held at gunpoint.
And remember, they said after the robbers left the apartment,
they took him back downstairs and left him in the lobby, still handcuffed.
Now, Karl Lagerfeld, who is the creative director of Chanel,
actually talked to reporters about what happened with Kim Kardashian.
He said, I don't understand why she was in a hotel with no security and think like this.
If you are that famous and you put all your jewelry on the net, you go to hotels where nobody can come near to the room.
You cannot display your wealth and then be surprised that some people want to share it with you.
So he said, image wise, it's very bad for Paris.
He said, we make all the efforts to make Paris appealing.
But he also posted a picture.
Dearest Kim, we are all with you.
Love, Carl.
A lot of victim blaming in that.
Sounds like it, right?
In them comments.
I mean, you know, I do say you entice the wolves,
but that doesn't give somebody the right to violate you
just because you post your possessions on social media.
That you work hard for, absolutely.
But you do got to be able to protect what you post, though.
Right.
And I would not want to be tied up and held at gunpoint with him.
Well, Kim Kardashian feels like she's going to get her ring back
because it's very rare.
Now, I didn't know all this, but if anybody tries to sell that ring,
there's going to be some red flags because the diamond has an inscription
number on it and other markers on it.
So if anybody tries to sell it, there'll be some red flags.
They said even if the inscription is scratched off,
you can also identify her ring by special internal characteristics of the diamond.
It's not foolproof, though, because if they actually crush the big diamond
into several pieces, it'll make it less traceable.
And they would have to try to sell it to somebody that would have no problem
with buying something. Oh, there's a black market for that.
They'll get that off. They ain't gonna get
4.5 million for it,
but there's a black market. They'll get some money off of it.
They're gonna get a little something. There's also no surveillance
footage. They've been trying to find surveillance footage.
That's crazy. Are you saying somewhere where there ain't no cameras?
And there's nothing. They said
there was only a camera that's in front
of the building and the robbers
actually knew where that camera was,
so they managed to avoid...
Oh, she definitely got lined up.
...being caught on camera.
She definitely got lined up.
His camera's there, but there's no camera footage.
She got lined up.
Now I'll tell you who else is doing something illegal.
Chrissy Teigen.
She actually lives in Rihanna's old residence in Los Angeles,
and here's what she had to say when she was on Ellen.
And you moved into a new house. We do, yes. It actually used to be Rihanna's house.
Did she leave anything behind? I get a bill of hers. Rihanna you owe $18 to
Bugatti. You're opening her mail? Yeah, yeah maybe. Okay, she gets a lot of fan
mail. You open the fan mail? I don't get it to the house. I don't get my own to the
house. You know that's illegal, right?
Is it? You can't open people's mail.
Really? But it's my house now.
You definitely can't.
I've never done that, but I've never moved
in behind a really famous celebrity
either. I think it's a big difference in
getting mail from John Doe and getting mail
from Rob and Rihanna Fenty. You might open that up.
You don't get old mail from whoever used to live
at your address ever?
Yeah, but they're not a celebrity, so I don't care.
So you don't open it?
No, I don't even,
it's like whatever.
Like, I'm not even
intrigued to do that,
but I can see how
if it was a celebrity
on the front of the envelope,
you might be intrigued
to open this up.
I get all kinds of mail
at my house,
because apparently
before I bought my house,
there was a bunch of people
squatting there,
so there's a whole lot
of different mail
that comes to my house
all the time.
And is it illegal
to throw it away?
Yeah, you can throw it away, but you just can't open it. Well, then who would know if you opened it or not? True. There's a whole lot of different mail that comes to my house all the time. And is it illegal to throw it away? Yeah, you can throw it away, but you just can't open it.
Well, then who would know if you opened it or not?
True.
There's a check right now sitting in my house that's with someone else.
How much?
It's like $500-something.
And you ain't going to mail that back, E?
I don't know what the person is.
There's no return address on there?
No, it just came in a blank.
You put it back in the post box, and you say, this ain't my mail.
I forget how you do it.
You put it back, and they send it back. Return to send't my mail. I forget how you do it. You put it back and they send it back.
Return to sender.
Return to sender, yeah.
I don't know.
Anybody out here?
Never mind.
You might be getting somebody's doctor results.
No, that's crazy.
And that is your rumor report.
I'm Angela Yee.
All right, thank you, Ms. Yee.
Is it really a crime to open someone's mail?
It is, absolutely.
Even if it comes to your address?
Yes, it is.
Charlamagne!
What?
Who you giving that donkey to?
Aqib Tlaib,
cornerback of the Denver Broncos.
He needs to come
to the front of the congregation.
We like to have a whirl with him.
Okay.
We'll get into that next.
Keep it locked.
It's the Breakfast Cloak.
Good morning.
I was born a donkey.
It's the donkey of the day.
Donkey, donkey, donkey.
I'm going to want you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's time for the donkey of the day. That's pretty funny.
Charlamagne the devil?
Possibly.
The Breakfast Club.
Yes.
Donkey of the Day for Wednesday, October 5th,
goes to a man who many feel I share a face with,
Aqib Talib.
How come every time I hear his name,
I want to say Talib Kweli?
Sounds very similar.
I don't know, because you're very familiar with him. Aqib Talib, corner come every time I hear his name, I want to say Talib Kweli? Sounds very similar. I don't know, because you're very familiar with him.
Aqib Talib, cornerback of the Denver Broncos.
Now, back in June, Aqib was involved in a shooting at a Dallas script club.
Aqib received stitches in his lower right leg.
Get the hell out of here, Taylor, with your phone.
Oh, my goodness.
Jesus Christ.
Come on.
Sorry, listeners.
Sitting here acting like she's never heard this part of the show before.
Now, Aqib was involved in a shooting at a Dallas Crip Club.
Aqib received stitches in his lower right leg.
Luckily for him, the bullet missed any bones, arteries, or ligaments,
and the shooting has remained a bit of a mystery since June
because Aqib reportedly told police that he did not remember how the shooting occurred
because he was wasted.
Round of applause to Aqib for that excuse.
When all else
fails, blame it on the liquor. Okay,
Aqib said, and I quote, everything was a
blur and I was too intoxicated to
remember what happened. Great answer.
I don't know. Nothing is always a great
answer, okay? But Aqib claims
to not remember, but he probably wants to forget
after police cracked the case, he
getting shot is a terrible thing.
Nobody wants that.
And we live in this world, especially as a black man,
we have to worry about getting shot by goons, the police,
the Dylann Roofs of the world.
There's so many ways to get shot in America
that the last person you expect to get shot by is yourself.
Well, Aqib Talib did just that.
Oh, boy.
Because the Dallas Police Department has determined the Broncos cornerback shot himself in the leg.
Even though Aqib Tlaib was too intoxicated to remember what happened,
he had been telling close friends that he accidentally shot himself.
Yes, I know this story sounds familiar because the same thing happened to Plaxico Burris.
He shot himself walking into a club and served 20 months in prison
after being indicted for criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.
It's unclear if Aqib will face any criminal charges,
but he could still face discipline from the NFL
under the personal conduct policy.
I don't have anything else to say.
Aqib Tlaib shot himself in the leg,
and he needs to be grateful that God was covering him
the way he covers wide receivers
because this injury could have been much worse.
He could have had his career derailed
all because he's carrying a gun.
When the reality is, he's rich enough
to hire armed security.
Why?
Some donkey of the day has just sold himself.
Give Aqib Talib the biggest hee-haw, please.
We may share the same face,
but we don't share the same level of thinking, okay?
You and him share the same face?
That's what people say.
Every time he comes on TV, I get tweets.
I'm like, I didn't know you played for the Broncos.
You know you say that a lot.
You say you look like him.
You say you look like Morris Chestnut.
You say you look like Joe.
I'm just telling you what people say.
They ain't never said Joe.
Ain't nobody ever said Joe.
I'm going to tell you the people that I always get mistaken.
Okay, let's hear it.
Laughing at from True Blood.
Never. Yes, you are. I don't claim that one. That is true, but I don't claim that one. I'm going to tell you the people that I always get mistaken for. Okay, let's hear it. Laughing at from True Blood. Never.
Yes, you are.
I don't claim that one.
That is true,
but I don't claim that one.
I don't claim that one.
R&B singer Joe.
No, ain't no goddamn Joe.
Why you keep saying Joe?
You look like Joe.
Morris Chestnut.
Nobody says that.
Mike Coulter.
Nobody says that.
Marcus Ware.
Aqib Tlaib.
Tyrese.
Nobody says none of those.
Drop one of Clues bombs for me.
I'm just five different versions of a handsome name.
I heard DMX before.
You heard the True Blood guy.
You ain't never heard none of these.
The True Blood guy.
You never heard Joe, okay?
Hey, let me live my lie, all right?
All right.
Everybody else can be delusional.
I can't be delusional?
Let me be delusional, okay?
Shrek.
I'm just telling you what the street says.
Shrek.
Ain't nobody ever said no damn Shrek, okay? Shrek. I'm just telling you what the streets is. Ain't nobody ever said no damn Shrek, okay?
All right.
Steve, you shut up, okay?
Steve, I don't want to hear nothing from you, all right?
Your white privilege has been showing all week.
You keep your mouth closed over there and you hold that camera.
All right?
Why don't you ask him for a little commentary on the side?
All right.
All black people look alike.
Lamar Burton.
All right.
Lamar Burton. Lamar. From Reading Rainbow. He said looking like... Lamar Burton. All right. Lamar Burton.
Lamar from Reading Rainbow.
He said his name
was Lamar Burton.
All right.
Well, thank you
for that doggy day, Joe.
When we come back,
ask me.
I mean, Solomon.
Who the hell is Joe?
800-585-1051.
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for Yee,
call her right now.
She'll put you live
on the air
and help you
with your problems.
Again, 800-585-1051.
Call Yee right now. She'll help you with your problems. It, 800-585-1051. Call Yee right now.
She'll help you with your problems.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
It's Drake.
It's RiRi.
It's too good.
That was Mo Money Mo Problems.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Time for Ask Yee, 800-585-1051.
You got a question for Yee, you can call her right now.
Yee, what line are we going to?
Let's just do caller number four.
Okay.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, how you doing?
It's Shane.
What's your question for Yee?
Where you calling from?
I'm calling from Orlando.
I just moved here from Baltimore.
Okay.
What's your question, bro?
So lately, man, my girlfriend's been having some problems.
She thinks I'm cheating on her and I'm just busy working.
She got mad last night because she sent some porn on my phone.
Like, who doesn't watch porn?
It wasn't personal porn sent to you from a person, right?
You were just on the way home.
No, it wasn't.
It wasn't, but she said a link popped up to some Dropbox picture and she saw some girl.
Like, I don't know what she's talking about.
Are you sure you don't have a Dropbox of girls' pictures on your phone? Like, I don't know what she's talking about. Are you sure you don't have a drop box of girls' pictures on your phone?
Mate, I'm positive.
She goes through my phone.
I let her go through my call logs, my text message logs.
I don't even have social media.
She lives with you in Orlando?
Yes.
Okay.
And so you said you work all the time.
So does that mean that there's times that you're not accounted for when she's trying to reach you and she can't?
No, the thing is, our schedule is off.
Like, I work in the morning.
By the time I get home, she's already gone off to work.
So I have to be home bored, just me and my dog.
But I don't know a soul here in Orlando, so I just really be bored.
She thinks I'm out trying to look for this, look for that.
Like, no, I want to spend the rest of my life with my girl.
I know I'm standing.
I know I'm young, but I know what I want in life.
Right.
Well, I don't understand what she has to be so insecure about.
Do you guys have a past history of things happening?
No, not really.
Back in Baltimore, I had a lot of female friends.
Like, really just called you first that she didn't like that.
Okay. You never cheated, never got caught cheating or nothing?
I never cheated on her.
I cheated and passed the list, but I never cheated on her.
Okay. All right.
Well, it seems like she has some insecurities.
You know, maybe she feels a little, you guys moved together,
like you both lived in Baltimore and moved to Orlando?
Yes.
All right.
So perhaps it's a little bit of a bad aftertaste from what went down,
but she can't hold you accountable for things that you have never done.
She's going to ruin their relationship that way.
One other thing is, do you ever think she cheated on you?
No. and she's going to ruin their relationship that way. One other thing is, do you ever think she cheated on you? No, I mean, I think she was probably a little promiscuous before I met her,
but that's before me, so I don't pay it on mine.
So I don't think she cheated on me.
Because I don't understand what she would have to be so insecure about.
So what you need to do is sit her down and be like,
listen, what have I ever done to you for you to act this way?
Because this is making our relationship very stressful.
And you need to tell her, you're starting to make me think that you're cheating on me.
Because usually if they don't trust you, that means they can't trust you.
Like, back in Baltimore, I used to be a very social person.
Down here, I feel like my social life is just draining away.
So I did get a homeboy off the job.
I go out with him.
Like, I did hang out with him.
She thinks we going out, we trying to see a bunch of girls, this, that, and that.
Right.
Like, I don't, I don't know.
Yeah, and that's a bad situation if somebody can't even let you have male friends or go anywhere and not do.
Yeah, like, she don't understand.
Sometimes a man, like, needs his own time.
Like, he needs some man time.
All right.
So tell her, tell her this.
Just say, hey, listen, I've never done anything for you to make you feel this way.
I don't know what this is all about.
Tell me what it is that you need for me to do for you to feel more secure.
I'll do those things.
If you still can't get over it, then I don't know where this is going to go because I'm doing my best.
If that means that she needs you to just every now and then text her, check in on her, send little cute messages to make her feel more secure.
You know, let her know where you're at, whatever.
If you're always reachable, then it shouldn't be an issue.
Then the issue is with her.
All right.
Good luck, bro.
Thanks, man.
I listen to y'all every day too, man.
Appreciate it too, man.
And sometimes people say that will drive you to cheating when somebody keeps accusing you of something.
The first thing a guy will say is, I might as well cheat you.
Keep on saying I am anyway.
That's real though. 800-585-1051. You got a question for say is, I might as well cheat to keep on saying I am anyway. That's real, though.
800-585-1051.
You got a question for Yee, call her right now.
It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
That was Bryson Tiller with Exchange.
Morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV,
Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The
Breakfast Club. Let's go to the phone
lines. It's Ask Yee time.
Hello, who's this? Lindsay.
Hey, Lindsay. What's your question for Ye?
My question is, my boyfriend and I have been together for two and a half years.
He's lived with me for about two of those years.
I also have three kids.
But he has not paid anything.
What?
So he's living off of you?
Yeah.
I pay over two grand a month for my bills where I live.
Mm-hmm.
And he feels that since it's not his house, his name's not on it, he can't keep it, he's
not going to pay for any of it.
Nothing at all?
But then he should go get his own place.
He doesn't pay for groceries either.
And he's a grown man.
Girl, is he using you?
Does he eat the booty like groceries, though?
No. Because this sounds like a crazy situation. Girl, is he using you? Does he eat the booty like groceries, though? No.
Because this sounds like a crazy situation.
He has a job, right?
Oh, he has a job.
That's the thing.
He makes three times as much as me.
Oh, damn.
I've got $5 in my bank account.
He's sitting on seven grand.
How are you letting him get away with this?
I don't know.
This sounds crazy.
I know the answer.
I just keep thinking it's going to change.
Like, okay, he's going to realize today
that I have no money and I'm struggling.
Nope.
Never happened.
Mm-mm.
What you need to do is,
he should be paying half the bills.
Now, I don't even feel...
Yeah, he should at least pay half.
She got three kids.
Okay, but he lives in her house and hasn't paid for anything.
Half of all the bills you...
Is it a mortgage or a rent you pay?
Mortgage.
He should pay half the mortgage.
He's living there, right?
Yep.
I'm not even...
I'm down with splitting the bills.
He knew what he was getting himself into.
He didn't have to put no down payment for nothing.
He's living there.
He's been living there for how long without paying anything?
Two years. Two years. She's getting child. He's been living there for how long without paying anything? Two years.
She's getting child support too.
So that's the money for the kids.
That's not for him.
But even if she did, that's not for him.
Well, that's for half the...
Well, she needs to get child support for him because that's another kid
you have living with you.
You want in on that seven grand?
Girl, you need to tell him he needs to move out.
If he wants to date you, fine, but you can't be supporting him.
You have three kids to support, not four, right?
Right.
Don't let him take advantage of you.
And you know what?
I would say the same thing.
If you were a woman living with him and he was paying all the bills,
you got to contribute something.
He don't pay for no groceries.
He eats the groceries, right?
Nope.
He definitely eats the groceries. Maybe he's doing stuff around the house. He eats your pay for no groceries. He eats the groceries, right? Nope. He definitely eats the groceries.
He eats your groceries and the groceries.
He does nothing around the house.
Why do you have him there?
I don't understand. Cut the grass.
Why are you okay with this for two years?
He doesn't cut the grass. I pay lawn care.
My car went down to where
I couldn't get back and forth to work. He couldn't
even be bothered to get out of bed to take me to work.
I had to call an Uber and pay $200 a week.
I don't understand you.
I'm so confused.
Maybe he's raising the kids.
He might raise the kids.
I'm being stupid, right?
But don't you care about the fact that you need to support your children first and foremost?
You're spending all your money supporting a grown man.
Right.
And I would assume him being with you means him being with everything that comes with you.
And that means him being with you and your three children,
right? Yeah. He might be
raising the kids and helping the kids though. Okay.
Well, that's his woman. He knew she had three kids when he
moved in, right? Oh, yes.
If you date somebody with kids and you live with them,
you should be treating those kids like they're your kids too.
Hell no. Right. Yes, you should. treating those kids like they're your kids, too. Hell no.
Yes, you should.
It's roommates.
They're not even roommates.
He don't even pay his part.
But anyway, you need to put your family first and your needs first.
There's no reason with three kids you should have $5 in the bank.
Okay.
I just confirmed that I wasn't being, well, I was being stupid, but that's the right decision. Oh, no, yeah.
You don't need to be concerned about that.
You got to stand up for yourself. You know what? It's not that important to have a man that you got to decision. Oh, no, yeah. You don't need to be concerned about that. You gotta stand up for yourself.
You know what? It's not that important to have a man that you
gotta support him and take care of him. You need to
find the right man. Maybe he's saving for a ring or something.
By spending all her money and not his own?
He's gotta buy a ring.
I don't see the point of having $5 in the bank. I'd rather
have an overdraft of $200.
I'd rather be in the hole than just
have $5 sitting there chilling.
Alright. Good luck, mama. Thank you. Don't call me next week just have $5 sitting there chilling. All right. Good luck, Mama.
Thank you.
All right.
Don't call me next week and say he's still there either
and you ain't even talk to him about nothing.
But imagine if he's saving the money to buy a ring.
Is it okay then?
No, it's not okay.
Why does she have $5 in the bank?
How do you even get to that number?
If you have a negative $200 in the bank,
then that means that you're at least trying, okay?
What?
She got $5.
She's paying her bills.
But she has three kids.
What if there's an emergency?
Now I don't have no money because I'm spending my money taking care of this grown-ass man.
You're right.
You're absolutely right.
We got rumors on the way.
Yes.
Let's talk about a new couple that's getting married.
We'll tell you about the Orange is the New Black.
Okay.
We'll get into that next.
We'll talk about Orange is the New Black and what that has to do with it.
Okay.
We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It is the New Black and what that has to do with it. Okay. We'll get into that next.
Keep it locked.
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Well, Kid Cudi has checked into rehab, and that is for depression and suicidal urges.
He actually posted on his Facebook page.
He said, it's been difficult for me to find the words to what I'm about to share with you because I feel ashamed.
Ashamed to be a leader and hero to so many while admitting I've been living a lie.
It took me a while to get to this place of commitment, but it's something I have to do for myself, my family, my best friend, daughter, and all of you, my fans.
So that's when he revealed that he did check himself into rehab.
He said his anxiety and depression has ruled his life for as long as he can remember,
and I never leave the house because of it.
I can't make new friends because of it.
I don't trust anyone because of it, and I'm tired of being held back in my life.
I deserve to have peace.
I deserve to be happy and smiling.
Remember that little rant cut he went on a couple weeks ago, and he
was coming at Drake and Kanye? That had nothing
to do with Drake and Kanye and everything to do
with Kid Cudi. I'm glad he got help, though.
I remember previously he had said that he treated his depression
with drugs when he had a drug issue.
Illegal drugs. Yeah, I'm glad he got
help. He needed it. When people come at you, that's why
you can't really take it personal, because oftentimes it's
not you, it's them. And Cudi was just lashing
out because he was going through it.
That's all.
And, you know, we always talk about this, but there are a lot of people who do suffer from depression.
So that is why it is important for us to recognize some of those signs and take it seriously when you see somebody's been in a funk.
I'm not going to lie, though.
A lot of people do be taking advantage of that depression card sometimes.
A lot of people are claiming depression now and a lot of people are just jerks.
Sometimes.
Sometimes. Nobody wants to feel that way, but
you just don't know what's going on in people's lives.
That's why sometimes you have to have
a little compassion for people.
Alright, Orange is the new Black.
You know our girl Puse on the show?
Samara Wiley is her name in real life.
I know. Don't remind me of that.
If you didn't see the last season. Don't remind me.
That was hard.
What happened to her? She had a pretty big role and it was a crazy I know. Don't remind me of that. If you didn't see the last season. Don't remind me. That was hard.
What happened to her?
She had a pretty big role, and it was a crazy final episode. If you saw the last season of Orange is the New Black, you know what we're talking about.
Don't tell me that.
Well, good news for her in real life.
She's actually getting married.
Who is she getting married to?
Well, she's getting married to a writer, producer from Orange is the New Black, Lauren Morelli.
Now, Lauren actually was married when she started writing on the show.
Married to a man.
Married to a man.
She came out as gay, and she actually talked about how she realized she was gay in fall of 2012.
She said it was one of her first days on the Orange is the New Black set.
It wasn't so much one thing, but the sum of many small details,
how uncomfortable I felt around a group of lesbians,
how I considered myself a not very sexual person.
She said, when considered alone, these seem like little quirks that made me me.
Wanting to read a book instead of have sex is a perfectly reasonable preference to have.
But on set, these small moments came into sharp relief and I found myself answering to an endless stream of cast members who peppered me with questions about, are you dating anyone?
You're married to a man, but you used to kiss girls.
Do you miss it?
I was finally forced to consider a question that had never, ever occurred to me before.
Holy ish, am I gay?
So now she is engaged.
She used to love men.
Now she love Poussey.
Yeah.
She's marrying him.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Watch, watch, watch that.
What's your man?
Her name's Poussey.
Okay.
Yeah, that's her name on the show. That's her name on the show. Yeah. Watch it. Watch, watch, watch. What's your name? Her name's Poussey. Okay. Yeah, that's her name on the show.
That's her name on the show.
Yeah.
All right, Soulja Boy has gone to social media, and he is leaving Love & Hip Hop.
He tweeted out, I've decided to quit Love & Hip Hop.
I feel my brand is too big for the show now.
Oh, my God.
It's too ratchet.
I have my own new TV show coming soon.
Okay.
All right.
What?
Okay.
So, congratulations to Soulja Boy.
Can't wait to see what he has. All right. What? Okay. So congratulations to Soulja Boy. Can't wait to see what he has.
All right.
God bless the brotherhood.
Coming.
And Chris Brown posted a cute picture of himself with his daughter, Royalty.
He said, I'm happy that I took responsibility to be a father, and this little lady has given
me strength, unconditional love, and most of all, purpose.
If you have Revolve TV, you can see the cute picture that he posted.
Yeah, that's what a daughter do to you.
Ignorant people would label me a homophobic, woman beater, troublemaker.
I've been through hell and back to jail and back.
I refuse to crumble. I stand
love you, RoRo.
Okay, that's royalty. Yeah, I mean
as the father of two daughters, the craziest thing
enjoy them now. And the reason I say
enjoy them now is because everybody keeps reminding me that they
do indeed get older. They do. And they
do get breast. Yes. And they will get periods.
Yep. Have boyfriends and leave you to do. And they do get breast. Yes. And they will get periods. Yep.
And have boyfriends and leave you to yourself.
And that's great.
You'll get old.
That's what you want in life.
And they will have sex one day.
I don't want to hear that now.
I mean, you don't want to hear that,
but then you think about it.
You want your daughter
to have a great sex life
with nice men with big penises.
Your wife is somebody's daughter.
You're right.
So whatever you've done
to that person's daughter,
somebody will eventually
do to yours.
Don't say mine.
Say your wife is somebody's daughter, whatever you do to her.
Oh, your wife's not somebody's daughter?
She is, but I don't want to hear me.
Say you.
Put it in your own position.
Same difference.
I'm just saying this is something that us men have to acknowledge
and we have to embrace.
So it's just like enjoy them while they're young,
put the right things in their head,
and hopefully they grow up to suck the right one day.
Stop it. Okay. All right. Yes. I mean, that's just what it's about. I don't up to suck the right one day. Stop it. Okay.
Alright. Yes. I mean, that's just what it's about.
I don't want to hear that. Alright. I'm Angela Yee
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