The Breakfast Club - Melissa Mccarthy and Azealia Banks Interview and more

Episode Date: May 11, 2018

Friday 5/11 - Today on the show we had actress/ comedian Melissa McCarthy stop by for the first time where she spoke about the roles women usually play in Hollywood, her worst stand up performance and more. Also instead of Charlamagne giving someone the credit they deserve for "Donkey of the Day" we had Azealia Banks stop by (who Charlamagne once gave "Donkey of the Day" to) where she spoke about why she once supported Trump, Cardi B, and made it known she is still not happy with RZA.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club. What the hell is this, man? I'm glad they put y'all together. Y'all are like a mega force. Y'all just took over The Breakfast Club. Good morning, USA! Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet. It's Friday. Yes, it's Friday. Yes, man. The weekend is finally here. It's been a great week. It has been a great week.

And I think we're ending the week strong today. That's right. Strong. We have two people joining us this morning. We have Azalea Banks. We have Azalea Banks. Drop on the clues bombs for Azalea Banks. Explain to the people who Azalea Banks is if they don't know.

Because I'm sure a lot of people might not know. Azalea Banks is an artist from Harlem. She tours internationally. A lot of people focus on what she says. Yeah, the things she says more than her music sometimes,

but she still has a cult-like following of fans who rock with her music, so she'll be here this morning. I never met the young lady. Yeah, I saw she posted a picture with you guys yesterday.

Yeah, I never met the young lady, so. Yeah, I never met the young lady, so. Yeah, I never met her either. It's funny because we have a relationship through text and phone calls. Okay. Yeah, but we never physically met. All right. And also, Melissa McCarthy will be joining us.

She has a movie out this weekend. It's called Life of the Party. Yeah, it comes out today. I never met Melissa McCarthy either, but Melissa McCarthy's worth $60 million. You are a bird. Is that the first thing you look up when you see a person's coming? She's the number two highest paid actress

in Hollywood, I believe. Yeah, Melissa, get to the money, McCarthy. There you go. She gets her coins. Well, I can't wait to hear these interviews because yesterday

I was not here. I had to leave early. I had to do this Made in New York panel with the city of New York and then I had to host the Essence Upfront and that's where

they present what they have coming up this year for advertisers. Right. So I got to learn a lot about Essence Magazine. You know, the Essence Fest this year is probably going to be like the biggest one ever. Are they putting Melissa McCarthy on the cover of the new Essence Magazine? No, they're not. Have her at Essence Fest?

No, I don't think so. Why not? I don't think so, because she's not a black woman. But Essence does do a lot for black women. Essence is definitely a staple for us in our community. So I was honored to be there hosting there up front yesterday. I had a great time. And, you know, the new owner of Essence is Rich Dennis, who used to own Shea Moisture.

And he was up here before. And people were giving him a hard time for an ad that Shea Moisture had put out. And then they were mad at him. Rich Dennis, right? Yeah. I want to clue the box for Rich Dennis. Rich and Lou Dennis. He has an amazing car collection. Like, amazing. And then he were mad at... It's Richard Dennis, right? Yeah. Try one of Clues Bob's for Richard Dennis. He has an amazing

car collection. Like, amazing. And then he sold Shea Moisture. $40, $50 million worth of car collection. And people were so mad. They were like,

how could you sell Shea Moisture for black people? See how black people sell out? But then he went and bought Essence. Then he went and bought Essence. And started his own

venture capitalist fund to actually invest in other companies for people who are doing startups. But that's what you do when you have a business. When you have a business, sometimes you sell your business. But he couldn't talk about what he was doing at the time.

People thought he just cashed out. Who cares what people think? Well, people care because they had an emotional connection to the projects of Shea Moisture. So they did care. But what was the fact he just sold it? He sold it and then he put out that ad and the ad had a lot of white people in it and they were upset about that.

The ad was the thing but that's what you're supposed to do in business. You're supposed to build your business up to a certain level and then sell it and then keep doing

more business and helping your community more and more and more. That's what you're supposed to do. But I am going to actually get him to come up here

before Essence Fest and just discuss everything that's been going on and his new ventures because I think it's very interesting so if you have an idea

hit him up and pitch it. I'm going to bring one of those nice cars when he comes to pitch it. Well, I respect him because he Harlem Shaked through all the pressure that he was receiving after selling Shea Butter. Shea Moisture. Shea Moisture. Shea Butter. And you know,

let me apologize to all the dump trucks and garbage men out there. I thought you were about to apologize to the barbs. How are you going to apologize to your dump truck? I don't care about them damn barbs. Who cares about the barbs? That's what I thought he was about to apologize to the barbs. How are you going to apologize to your dump truck? I don't care about them damn barbs. Who cares about the barbs? That's what I thought he was about to do, too. No, the garbage truck and the garbage man.

I didn't know what happened. And all the people that work sanitation, because on my way to work, I was cutting them off left and right. They were giving me all types of fingers. But look, bro, I got to get to work. Who figured you? First of all, how do you get around garbage trucks? Garbage trucks don't play. Them garbage trucks will stop in the middle of the road and command the whole street.

And park on a diagonal. You must have never seen me drive. I don't play that. I don't play. Them garbage trucks will stop in the middle of the road and command the whole street. And park on a diagonal. You must have never seen me drive. I don't play that. I don't know how you got around. I act like I don't care about my car. I close my eyes. I was doing all types of... You close your eyes while you're driving?

Absolutely. To get around the garbage truck. Let them know I can't see what's going on. So if you put your garbage truck in front of me, we're going to be here all day because we're going to crash into each other. And nine times out of ten, they move out the way. But let me apologize because I had to get to work, bro. Except for that one time.

Sometimes, y'all just got to pull over to the right. You know people are late, and you know that garbage truck can't go zero to 60 in nine seconds. So just move over to the right. Drop on the clues, boss, for all the garbage men out there working hard. Yeah, shout to y'all. I apologize. We like to call them sanitation workers. Sanitation workers.

Got to deal with assholes like DJ Envy. You can't say that word, you jerk. You can't say that. I can't say assholes? No, you can't say that. You know you can't say that. What about anus holes? You know what? I'm going to start saying donut holes. All, you can't say that. You know you can't say it. What's wrong with you? You know what?

I'm going to start saying donut holes. All right, let's get it started. What's in front page news? What are we talking about? You tell me. We're going to be talking about Waffle House, another incident. This really broke my heart watching, and this is just too many things happening at Waffle House. No more passes for Waffle House.

We'll tell you about a young man who was coming from the prom, and things ended terribly. Now this is how he'll remember his prom night. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now let's talk about what happened at Waffle House. Now, I hope you guys saw this video yesterday.

Now, the video is of Anthony Wall. He's wearing a tuxedo and he's outside of a North Carolina waffle house, and you can see him being slammed up against the glass and then slammed onto the floor, choked, just a lot of excessive force, and he's screaming to get your hands off of me. Listen to how it sounds. Get your hands off of me. I'm glad I'm recording this.

He's not supposed to be doing that. Get your hands off me! Get your hands off me! Get your supervisor out of here! Get your hands off me! Get your supervisor out of here! Get your hands off me! Unfortunately, I saw that video yesterday.

Oh my God, Anthony, while he's 22 years old, and guess what he was doing? He was coming from taking his 16-year-old sister to the prom. So he was his 16-year-old sister's prom date. He took her to Waffle House afterward. He got into a situation with one of the employees because he complained about customer service,

and apparently it wasn't anything physical. The employee called the police. First of all, why would he expect customer service at Waffle House? You should expect customer service at Waffle House? You should expect customer service. You should expect that anywhere, man. Knock it off. And guess what? You're allowed to complain when the customer service is there. Absolutely. That's one of the experiences when you go to Waffle House. You will

complain about customer service at Waffle House. No, that's not how it's short on Waffle House. And he had his hands up at first. When the cop first pulled him out, he had his hands up. The cop grabbed him by his neck and threw him on the floor. He slammed him against the glass really hard. Just banged his head against the glass. Now, he says that he was pretty much trying to scream for air and trying to breathe because he was holding my throat. And that's when I got aggressive with him because you are choking me.

He also said he wasn't fighting the officer because his arms were in the air. Listen, man, at the end of the day, you might have to fight officers back. You know why? Because you feel like you're fighting for your life. Right. Because once they start putting you in chokeholds and all kinds of stuff, you start thinking about Eric Garner. You can't breathe. You have to just die.

Exactly. You start thinking about all these people who have been choked out. Yes, you're going to fight back for your life. That's survival instinct. It's reaction. And let's not forget what happened to Chiquisa Clemons when she was at Waffle House also. Remember, you guys saw that video where they had her on the ground

and then he was basically choking on her and her top top was slipping off, and she was trying to cover herself up, and he told her that he would break her arm. All these police officers are asking too much of human beings, and the reason they're asking too much of human beings, it's going to come a point in time when human beings survivalist things are going to kick in, and it's going to be fight or flight. When they start fighting back, y'all don't got nobody to blame but yourself. It's just not a fair fight because they have guns.

They have backup officers. And I don't want anybody to get killed. You almost got to. And I was thinking about this and I do this with my son now. I work out with my son. But we all have to make sure we are fit because the way that cop manhandled that young man, that shouldn't happen like that. He was choking the ish out of him.

And what happens when he does it to a young lady like he did to Shaquisa Clemons? You're right. We got to start working out and getting our bodies right and being just as strong. So you're not going to be throwing us around like that. You're abusing your power. Absolutely. And it's only a matter of time before people start fighting back and clapping back. And you don't got nobody to blame.

And by the way, there was a second police officer involved in this as well. So it's just a, I, but I do believe that Waffle House needs to actually speak up because they haven't said anything. And this is happening at Waffle Houses. And people really go to Waffle House needs to actually speak up because they haven't said anything. And this is happening at Waffle Houses. And people really go to Waffle House all the time. Well, the patty melt plate at Huddle House is way better than the one at Waffle House. Everybody want to boycott Starbucks, but you guys should be also boycotting Waffle House right now. I'm trying to figure out when they're going to get an all-star special become so dangerous. I've always liked Huddle House better, by the way, because I grew up in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

We got a Huddle House and a Waffle House. We always go to the Huddle House. Well, y'all don't need to be going to a waffle house at all right now. We ain't got a waffle house or a huddle house. Yes, y'all do. There is a huddle house in Jersey now. There is? Yes, it is.

Right off exit 13 in Jersey. Okay. I see the sign all the time. Well, if you're outraged when you've seen either one of these videos, then you need to actually make sure that waffle house, they need some training in their facilities. It's not hard not to go to a waffle house. Right. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Unless you're

out 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock in the morning. People are. Well, stay your ass home. Alright. The last front page news. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe you had a bad night, bad morning, whatever it may be. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Let's go! This is your time to get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Let's go! This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. Say it 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? Hey, what up? It's Trey from East City, North Carolina. Trey, what up, man?

Get it off your chest, bro. From East City. Oh, NC. NC. Hey, man, they lynching dudes in Oklahoma. It's too young. That was lynched in 2018. I saw that, man. They didn't just lynch them. They dismembered them and threw their body parts in the river, right? What? So, okay. I'm a convicted felon. You know, I'm on probation.

I'm supposed to carry a weapon. But at this point, if they lynching people, is it really better to get caught with it or without it at this point to protect yourself and your family? My brother, you in North Carolina, you can get a concealed weapons permit. Come on now, you're from the Carolinas. You know you can get a permit to carry your gun, even as a convicted felon. How long ago were you convicted?

I'm still on papers. Oh, you're still on. Oh, okay. Never mind. So explain the story to me. I don't know what happened. Black men lynched. Yeah, I'm for real.

I would like some more information on it, too. If y'all find out, you know, once we start getting this thing out, they try to figure out they lynching people and they talking about making America great again. That ain't great, too. If y'all find out, you know, once we start getting this thing out, they try to figure out they lynching people and they talking about making America great again. That ain't great, bro. Yeah, I saw the article circulating on social media yesterday. So they were saying it was a murder and dismemberment of two African-American men over a gun sale gone wrong.

Yeah, Jerron Marlin and Ramon Smith. I haven't read the story, though, so I really don't know the details. We'll read up on it, brother. Alright, thank you for sharing that. And I want to say to my mom on air, happy Mother's Day. Every day is Mother's Day. Diane Michelle Sessom from Dawson, South Carolina. I love you, mama.

I love you, mama, too, bro. All right. Hello, who's this? Hey, what up, man? It's L, man. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. What's going on?

Y'all bound to the police brutality. It never happened to me, but there was one time where there was two officers, two white officers. They pulled me over in like a dark alley. So they asked me for my license, you know, my registration. So I asked them like, you know, can I go to my glove department? Because I don't know what they was going through.

And they was like, you know why we pulled you over? I'm like, nah. They was like, oh, because you made a turn. I'm like, what? I'm like, alright, cool. And then they gave me back my license and registration. I just took off. I don't give them no leeway. Like, I don't give them nothing, you I'm like, all right, cool. And then they gave me back my license and registration, and I just took off. So I don't give them no leeway. Like, I don't give them nothing, you know? Yeah, I mean, listen, man, my anxiety kicks in whenever the police get behind me.

Police get behind me nowadays, I pull over on the side of the road. I pull over at a store. I don't want to interact with them. And you know what? In front page news, I had a whole nother story about a Kentucky police detective. A woman went to go report a rape. She was sexually assaulted. And you know what happened?

What? That Kentucky police detective allegedly offered to drive her home. And then he ended up raping her again. Oh, my goodness. Wow, man. Wow. My goodness. Well, have a good morning, bro.

I just told these young boys, man, just be careful out here, man. I mean, that's the only thing my dad used to say. Just make sure you get home, man. You can't do nothing when you're locked up. But, Dad, just make careful out here, man. I mean, that's the only thing my dad used to say. Just make sure you get home, man. You can't do nothing when you're locked up or dead. Just make sure you get home. So are you saying that we need to fight back or you need to make sure you get home? Because those are going to be...

I want to, I mean, make sure you get home, but you got to make sure you're living. You know what I mean? If they, you can't just choke somebody like that. They asking too much of us. Yeah. If you watch that video with a brother named Anthony and he got threw up against that window

and the guy, the cop put his arm around his neck, immediately his instinct was to fight back. That's just what's going to happen. And the whole thing is that nothing violent was happening inside a Waffle House. It's a disagreement over customer service. That's not a reason for you to be slammed up and choked. But I will say, young boy, don't expect customer service at Waffle House. Come on, man.

Expect customer service anywhere you go. Not at Waffle House. Yes. All I want them to do is wear gloves. Get it off your chest. They don't even do that. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club.

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Yeah. Hello, who's this? This is Ty from Longbourn, North Carolina. Ty, good morning. Get it off your chest, bro. Alright, first off, this is about that video about the teenager that, what, a 22-year-old guy at the Waffle House? Yep, yep, yep. Alright, cool, man. First thing first, I want to say, that can't keep

happening like this, man. You know, I lost my brother back in 2013 by the hands of a police officer back in Fairville, North Carolina or whatever, you know what I'm saying? He didn't have a chance to fight for his life, you know what I'm saying? It was just a straight three shots to the chest and he dropped dead. So, you know, we can't keep having this going on, man. Like, this gotta stop

now, brother. Nah, I agree with you, man. Plus I'm telling you, they're asking too much of us as human beings. Our natural instincts are gonna kick in. Just to fight back, right. And we're going to start fighting back. It's just ridiculous at this point. Hello, who's this? Hey, peace and blessings, guys. Good morning.

Port-a-potty guy. What's up, bro? What's up? I'm good, man. Hey, Sean, man, you ain't going to talk to me today? What's up, my guy? How you? Hey, Envy, I'm good, brother.

Envy, I was listening a while ago. As a garbage truck driver, right? Mm-hmm. I was listening that you don't show the respect to the garbage people. I didn't say that. Hold up. I said this morning I was dipping in and out. I said I a while ago. As a garbage truck driver, right? Mm-hmm. I was listening that you don't show the respect to the garbage people. I didn't say that. Hold up. I said this morning I was dipping in and out. I said I respect you guys.

That's why I apologize for dipping in and out. You listening to what I'm saying? Yeah, I am. My bad. All right. But listen, when you going around the garbage truck, try to go nice and easy because sometimes the people that work on the back, sometimes they walking in front of the garbage truck. You know what I mean?

I've seen incidents where people are going so fast past the garbage truck that they almost hit one of the guys on the back, sometimes they're walking in front of the garbage truck. You know what I mean? I've seen incidents where people are going so fast past the garbage truck that they almost hit one of the guys on the back. You know what I mean? Yeah. They're trying to get around. And they're not expecting a-holes like DJ Envy to be trying to drive around in a truck. They block the street sometimes. They know people around.

And I had to get around. I had to get to work. It was either get to work late. Sometimes we have to block off the street because, you know, we're trying to get the garbage in a timely manner. And sometimes people park their car in front of the garbage that we can't even get it. So

we have to do those type of maneuvers just to protect the guys that's on the back. You know what I mean? Yeah, I ain't mad at you. Just for you to be safe, man, because I love you guys, man. We love you back, brother. Yeah, peace and blessings, though. And are you going to do anything different now when you're driving around in a garbage truck? I usually don't. Today I was late.

I had to get to work. Hello, who's this? Amaya. Amaya, good morning. Get it off your chest. Good morning. I just don't like how Charlamagne was being ignorant about the situation with the kid from the Waffle House.

Imagine if it was his daughter being assaulted by that police officer. Would you have told your child not to go to the Waffle House? Yes, I would tell my child not to go to the Waffle House no more. What are you talking about? Ain't that the whole point? Aren't we boycotting Waffle House? No, we need to be. So you would have been ignorant about it, though,

if that was your child, seriously. What are you talking about? How was I ignorant when I specifically said these cops are asking too much for us, and when we start fighting back, it's going to be an issue? Hey, so you're saying don't go to Waffle House. Why not? He just took his sister from the prom.

I bet she was hungry. Why not take his sister? What are you talking? Tell me, you know this is not the first incident at Waffle House, right? And I didn't say that little boy shouldn't have gone to Waffle House. I said don't go to Waffle House and expect good customer service. Waffle House customer service is trash, which is yet another reason not to go.

But why won't you expect good customer service? You go anywhere and expect good customer service. Because Waffle House is Waffle House. They don't even wash their hands when they're cooking your food. They don't wear gloves when they're cooking your food. What are you talking about? It's Waffle House. When have you ever gone to Waffle House and got great customer service? Seriously. All the time.

No, you haven't. Well, thank you for calling, Mama. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up at any time. Now, you, we got rumors on the way? Well, yeah, this is a crazy story, but we are going to talk about detail. A producer who's worked with people like Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Beyonce, Jay-Z, is being accused of physically and sexually abusing up-and-coming female artists.

We'll tell you what they had to say. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. All right, morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee.

Charlamagne got what? I ain't gonna lie, I've been here Googling Huddle House because, you know, I grew up on Huddle House. You about to open one? Now I'm hungry as hell. Oh, boy. Good, because we can't go to Waffle House, so. Yeah, because the only, I grew up in one in Moncton,

South Carolina, but then I saw they got one in Newark, New Jersey. And I'm like, damn, how the hell am I supposed to be franchising? But now I'm starving. Now you're hungry? Yes. All right. Well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk detail.

Producer. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On the Breakfast Club. So listen up. Now, these allegations are horrific. Dita, who's a music producer, he actually co-wrote and produced

Lil Wayne's single, How to Love. He also did Drunk in Love for Beyonce, Weed and Boys for Wiz Khalifa, worked with a lot of different artists, and he's now being accused of raping and abusing two female artists. One of them is a singer. Her name is Christina Buck,

and she says that he raped her back in February after a recording session in Miami and forced her to have sex with him in front of other people. He got violent last week while they were at the Malibu Beach Inn, and she says he forcibly grabbed her by the hair, hit and choked her, bit her lip during it, and she was left with bruises on her arms, head, back, and legs. Then a second artist named Peyton Ackley says that he made her and Christina his sex slaves and she considered him a mentor in the industry but he told her the business was all about

sex. Now according to these documents he walked in on Peyton taking a bath and forced her to have sex with him in front of another producer and forced her to take nude photos while he masturbated and also forced her to record him having sex with Christina. She also says that he got violent and also forced her to record him having sex with Christina.

She also says that he got violent and slammed her head into a wall and dragged her up a flight of stairs. Now, according to TMZ, these women did request restraining orders and the judge did grant them. The details of this detail case are crazy. Now, Bebe Rexha posted, Glad these women came out. It's scary. He tried to with me, but I literally ran out of that studio. Karma is a bitch.

Singer Jessie Reyez talks about one night over six years ago where he tried that on her as well. And she also says that the song that she has about a gatekeeper is actually about detail. Check it out. Oh, I'm the gatekeeper. Spread your legs. Open up. You could be famous.

If you come up anywhere else, I'll erase you. Drink up, bitch. We got champagne by the cases. Don't you know, don't you know? We are the gatekeeper. Spread your legs, open up. You could be famous. You know we're holding the dreams that you're chasing. You know you're supposed to get drunk and get naked 20 million dollars in a car Girl, tie your hair up if you wanna be a star Yikes. First of all, anybody who calls himself a gatekeeper is trash because you're not God. I don't know why people act like they're God and like they can grant blessings. Now, Jessie Reyes posted,

Fear is a real thing. The girls that came out are brave as hell. She said, I didn't know what to say or who to tell. Here's some more from her song. Oh, I'm the gatekeeper. Spread your legs. Open up. You could be famous.

Wait till five years down the road and you're failing. Keep these regular dudes that are nameless. Don't you know, don't you know that we are the gatekeeper. Spread your legs. Open up. You could be famous. Girl on your knees. Don't you know what your place is? Got gold on my dick. Girl, don't you want to taste? The best thing about the industry now is there are no gates, by the way. And on the side note, Jessie is dope.

She is dope. I never heard her to this now. I never heard her to this now, but what I just heard, she sounds dope. And people always ask, how has this been going on for so long? Because she was talking about an incident over six years ago. And like she said, she was scared. And so it took for these two women coming forward for other people to feel brave enough to come forward and tell their stories as well. Listen, I've never seen detail a day in my life.

But when I saw him yesterday, I will say the pictures I was looking at, he's got a rapist face. And, you know, he recently also had a lawsuit against Drake saying that his security beat him up, if you guys remember that. That's detail? Yeah, they broke his if you guys remember that. That's detailed? Yeah, they broke his jaw. You remember that? He's got some really rapey features. Like with the shades on and the big black hat. It's like, bro, what you up to?

He looks like a little shifty, rapey, steal your poom poom looking individual, don't he? Well, I commend these women for coming forward and having the strength to tell their stories. That first picture looked a little... Oh, you steal? What happened to them? At least steal. You're stupid. I'm Angela Yee,

and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back... Hey. We have a special guest with us. Yes, she has a movie that comes out today called Life of the Party.

Life of the Party. She's the second highest paid actress in all of Hollywood. She's been in Bridesmaids. She's been on SNL. She's done a female when they relaunched the female Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters Part 2 SNL. She's done a female when they relaunched the female Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters Part 2?

Yes. You said she's been a female when they relaunched the female Ghostbusters. No, I said when they relaunched. They relaunched Ghostbusters. It's going to bob beyond your ass. You don't know what be coming out your mouth. Oh. Why you flirting with me this morning, brother?

Melissa McCarthy will be here. And we'll talk to her when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast

Club. We have a special guest in the building. You might know her from Bridesmaids or Ghostbusters or even on SNL, Melissa McCarthy. Hey, hello. Melissa, get to the money, McCarthy. There you go. She's worth $60 million. You are such a bird.

Why are you all in her money? And one of the top paid women in Hollywood, okay? If you can locate where that money is, that would be awesome. You can just let me know with like a code or something. Doesn't Celebrity Network confuse you online? You go look and you be like, where's that money they say I got? I know. Or I just get a call from my mom. She's like, oh my God.

How is this possible? I'm like, it's not possible. That's a thing. You are one of the top paid women in Hollywood, though. It's kind of weird. I mean, I don't know who gets what, but I'm just shocked every time I actually get paid and someone lets me go to work.

I was like, okay. I figure at the end of the day, they're going to be like, we figured it out. Get out of here. I'm always slightly waiting for somebody to be like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. We're on to you. Take a hike. I always do wonder about the business, though, because in this world where the gender wage gap is so real, how you've been

able to get your bread? I don't know. I mean, it's a weird, I mean, I think I just always fight for what the project is and I've got, you know, I've got good people fighting with me. And I think it was finally when I was like, I will say no. I think that was the project is. And I've got, you know, I've got good people fighting with me. And I think it was finally when I was like, I will say no.

I think that was the biggie, which is always terrifying, especially for somebody who couldn't get work for 20 years. It's like when you're finally like, I'm going to say no and walk away unless it seems right and fair, which is, you know, then you go cry in your car.

When did you get to that point? When the 60 million hit the bank account? Yes. Which still, seriously, let me know where that is. No, I mean, I think pretty early on I was like, you know, it's a funny thing. It's like you can't make a jump from like almost nothing. And I was always like, oh, wait, when do you finally make the jump that everybody you always hear about? And I finally was like, I'm just going to wait it out.

It wasn't crazy, but I just wanted it to be fair. Like, well, what's everybody else on it making? Got you. Kind of even it out, so. It worked. It paid off. It worked. It paid off.

So what made you come to this show, this rinky-dink show? You know, we were talking about. Yes, this rinky-dink show. What made you come to the ghetto? Yeah, what made you come to the ghetto? Yeah, because nobody's listening. You guys, keep it up. Someday someone might tune in. Maybe over. Yeah, because nobody's listening. You guys, keep it up. Someday someone might tune in. Maybe now.

Yeah, right, right. Do you listen to the show? Yes, I listen to the show, but so does everybody else in the world. Come on. You doing okay? We're doing okay. We're not 60 million yet, but we get there. But you know where it is, so we'll split it.

You're my only link to it. You didn't start in the world of stand-up, right? I did, actually. Really? Yeah, I started doing stand-up when I came to New York. And, well, like, clueless, dumb, which is probably good because it's the only reason I got up on stage. Somebody's like, oh, do stand-up tomorrow night. I'm like, all right, that's it.

Like, no prep, no common sense about it, but I was 20 and I was like, I didn't think about like, oh, what are you going to write? What are you going to say? I just kind of jumped up on stage. Which now I'd be like, there's no way. I'd be too chicken, but... What was your worst show doing stand-up since you didn't write anything?

So many. It's also like when there's a heckler, I didn't want to do like a mean show. It just was not because that can't be funny, but just because it wasn't my thing. I was telling like long, weird stories. And, you know, especially when you're starting out, you only have like four minutes.

Somebody that's like, take your top off. Jesus Christ. Always. That's way before the Me Too movement. That was, but that guy in a different, Jesus Christ. Incredible. Yeah. But there is always, like in every comedy, which is why I stopped doing stand-up, like every comedy club always had somebody that was like just yelling crazy stuff. I'm like, let me take a guess. It's the guy in the corner alone on his like eighth drink. And then you have to, but you take two minutes of your four-minute time to like,

and he really was usually never going to shut up until you kind of eviscerated him. And then once you get that mean with somebody, which I didn't want to do in the first place, then to switch back into like, hey, so anyway, I'm walking down. I just said awful things about like his family, why he's alone. You're never going to find happiness. Hey, the craziest thing happened walking down. Like to make that switch back, people were like, she's got a mean streak.

Like then you've, I'm like, I didn't want to do that, so. That's weird for a guy to do, because there's other clubs for that. There's plenty of clubs you can go to see women taking their cops off. It's called strip club, you know. Yeah, yeah. It's interesting. I have, like, a wig on and, like, weird, like, I looked kind of club kid-ish, so it wasn't, like, I think it was just anybody who walked up there that they probably didn't think was

going to punch them, that they would probably yell that at. But it was like absolute consistent, which I just was always like, come on. Melissa McCarthy's here. You might know her from Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters, or SNL. Now, how did you lose so much weight? You lost, what, 75, 80 pounds? I lost a lot. Well, it's also like over five years.

It's not like three weeks ago. Why did you work at it? Why not just get surgery? Because, well... Why did you say it like that? Five years is a long time to work at it. Well, because I figured it would stay because it's like, I don't know, because I just

wanted to change it without like, you know, I don't know. I think everybody's always kind of working on something. And I was like, if I can de-stress and just do it slower and stop constantly trying to be on something. And then it actually worked better. Like instead of being like, I'm going to not do this and do this and only drink this and do it. Like instead of the crazy plan, because I started to think about it like that's like controlling your breathing all day. Like 14 hours in, you go that crazy. Right. So I was like, I'm just going to like mellow out,

give myself a break. And after I had kids, I was just like, I have to be realistic. Like it's not going to it's not going to go fast. But I feel I mean, I feel great. So that's very rare in Hollywood to lose the weight naturally. Well, I just didn't want to, I don't know. I'm too chicken. Maybe being chicken is the best thing. I'm a very, no, I'm not a frightened woman, but I just thought, I thought there's got to be a way. And if I wasn't rushing it, I said, you know, I was kind of like, what's the hurry?

And it was all diet and working out. Thank you. What's that? All diet and working out. Yeah. And like, stop, stop freaking out about stuff. Stop looking at the crazy things. I'm like, who are it better? Where it's like two amazing looking people. It's like all that stuff where we're supposed to be fighting each other and women are supposed to be being compared and stuff. I finally

was just like, I'm done with it. I'm done with it. Like, I think when you freak your, freak your mind out and worry about stuff, that're not going to ever get healthier that way. Word. You said you met your husband. His name's Ben Falcone? Falcone, yeah. He's a director and writer. Y'all have done like three films together,

The Difficult Balancing, The Personal and Professional. How was that working with Hubby? It's great. Really? Oh, my God. That's how we met. We met at the Groundlings. So he was my favorite person to write with.

He's super funny. Oh, so y'all have been together for like 20-something years? Yeah. Oh, so he's not in it for the money. That's a good guy. He's not in it for the money. He's a great guy. No, he's like super funny, super smart, and just like weird and makes me laugh.

And we immediately, like we became really good friends right away at Groundlings. And we were always the ones, like, let's just write together because it was easy and fun. And then I was pretty sweet on him early. And then that all worked out. And it's easy with him. It's like we get to go to work together. It's like we're stupid all day. He's, like, even Steven.

And so he's, like, a super mellow guy. So to have that as a director and you know they're really funny and watching out for you it's like the dream. It's never too far it's never babe do this or never it's always fun no problems no because it's like oh what about this

and then he'll say what about that it's like oh what about green what about yellow and then we're both like ah purple it's a super fun collaborative. There's no ego. I think if you get into ego stuff, you're never going to make anything funny anyway. Have you ever held up a scene

because you don't want to hook up in the trailer? No, is that sad? Listen, it's not too late. It's not too late. I'll be right back. All right, we have more with Melissa McCarthy When we come back Don't move

She has a new flick in theaters this weekend Life of the Party It's The Breakfast Club Good morning The Breakfast Club Hey everybody it's DJ Envy Angela Yee Charlamagne Tha God We are The Breakfast Club

We have Melissa McCarthy in the building You might know her from Bridesmaids SNL Ghostbusters. And now she has a new flick out this week, and it's called Life of the Party. Melissa McCarthy's here. Charlamagne?

Maya Rudolph is one of your close friends, too. You met her at the Groundlings, too, back in the day? Yeah. Wow. We started at the Groundlings together, Kristen Wiig. It was just kind of a crazy, it was a crazy group when we were in that, you know, just doing shows together.

It's like you don't get paid there so you're there and you're working so hard so it's like you've got to love it you're gonna love it or you you wouldn't put up with it but yeah it was pretty it was a pretty crazy group and she is Maya to me is like I would say one of the top five human creatures that are that funny I've ever met in my life. And like sweet, like all that goodness, all that sweetness on top of that kind of funny is like mind blowing. Oh, I got to put, I got to ask you who the other four are before we move on. More Maya talk. I say Kristen Wiig too. Not just because they're friends, but like truly like they're nuts.

I think Bill Hader. I don't know. Jamie Foxx really gets me. Oh, I don't know. Jamie Foxx really gets me. Oh, I don't know. I hate to end the list. That's cool. You'll have people calling your phone later like, oh, you don't think I'm top.

That's what I used to think about. I was like, you know what? I'm going to get in trouble for this list. Am I in your new movie? So that got to be fun to have your friends. Crazy. And your husband. Yeah.

And hubby. It's really like it was such a good, it's such a good group. Like, set was just pretty stupid. Like, which is a pretty good way to go to work when you're just like, if we can stop laughing long enough to, like, shoot it. Like, that's a pretty good, that's a pretty good way to spend the day. And she is, she plays my best friend in it, Maya. And it was great because we're like, you know, anytime we can get to work together, like, we're both busy

and she's, you know, we both have kids, so it's like you don't always see each other, so to be able to be at work and just hang out and kind of do the, like, make each other laugh like we did when we met was, it's kind of amazing. Yeah, we're talking to Melissa McCarthy, of course, she has a new flick, Life of the Party, out

this weekend. She's from Bridesmaids, SNL, Ghostbusters. Now, you just talked about how you used to do stand-up. Do you think that some of those jokes that you did before, you know, comedians can do now? I think it's definitely different. I think it's different. I think it's definitely good that we're becoming more aware. I mean, it's kind of like about time. On a lot of fronts. I think it's how you do it.

I think you still have to poke the bear. I think you still have to shine the light and hold the mirror up and I think that's one of the great things that comedy and stand-up can do. It's like, it can poke at you. If you don't do it with venom, I think you can actually

make fun of a situation and what's going on and do it in a way that might actually make someone realize something. If you just come at someone hard and make them feel stupid, then I think people are going to... You're not going to change anyone's mind. No one's going to be like, huh.

Maybe this is dumb. They're just going to get mad at you. You always feel like intention matters because even when you watch old comedy shows back in the day, and they might have been talking about like, you know, like edgy topics. It was funny. It was funny.

Yeah, it was fun. And also they were the joke. Like they were somehow, even though they were talking about, if they wanted to like talk about something, they put themselves in as the butt of the joke which immediately makes you more able to kind of like take it in and like laugh at it and realize maybe this is stupid it's intention for sure i think but when somebody really is like if you're trying

to make a point like i don't think anybody really wants to be preached to when they have a good time and then you go on social media people are just trying to get attention. So everybody's looking for that viral moment even when they're on stage at a show or something. They just want to say something that they'll know go viral. And why it's to whoever can be the nastiest and the meanest, that's what...

My brain just doesn't work that way. I'm always like, if you put a quarter of that energy and if you want to be noticed, then figure it out, figure out how. But just saying really incredibly mean, hateful things. And I always just think, what does that person walk around with all day? They just like. They're miserable.

It's just like toxic. Yeah, they're miserable. And it's always like, you know, 332 in the morning and like Scranton, Pennsylvania. And you're like, someone's in like their parents. You know that's not someone who's like, I just had the most amazing day. I'm so happy. Let me just write this quick hate mail. Like no one's doing that. We call that thumb thugging.

That's what we call that. And Misery Loves Company and social media provides you company 24-7 365. I saw you tell people that you like you ignore your online trolls. I just don't read any of it. Like I've never tried to get better at figuring out

like some social stuff because I'm just like I don't want to. It's not going to improve me. I'm not going to like oh so and so in you know Indiana hopes I die tonight. I'm like you know what? That's I'm going to take that note and try to apply it's like when it's so awful I'm like

if I'm right with my kids and my family and then I'm okay like I'll take any creative note or like positive not positive it can't doesn't have to be positive but like when it's just crazy like oh you and your family die in your sleep it's like okay that did not that did not help my situation well after this interview you're gonna have a bunch of people tweeting you saying take your top off i hope somebody yells me yells that at me today i'll be like thank you thank you so much i'll consider it now i did a reboot of a ghostbusters yeah and it was an all-male franchise before that clearly was all female when y'all did it did you learn anything new about uh sexism in hollywood when y'all did that well just that people need hobbies people need to fill their time

with other stuff because literally saying like you ruined my life oh my god like so many this was before we started filming just the concept of women doing that thing. There were so many things online that was like, you're ruining my life. You're ruining my childhood. I was like, if that's going to ruin your childhood, I'm going to guess it was pretty bad to start with. I don't think we did it.

How sexist and misogynistic do you have to be to think women can't kill ghosts? Something that we're not even sure exists. Oh my God. I never really just thought about it. It's all fake. Yeah. Well, I can't say that people saying

that are people that I'm like, they seem to be really smart. I bet they really thought this through. Melissa McCarthy's still in the building. You know her from Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters, just to name a few. Continue, Charlamagne. Do you believe in ghosts? Yeah, I do. Yeah, because you're from a small farm town. I'm from still in the building. You know her from Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters, just to name a few. Continue, Charlamagne. Do you believe in ghosts? Yeah, I do. Yeah, because you're from a small farm town. I'm from the country, too.

I'm from South Carolina, so. You ever saw one growing up? I think I saw, my great-grandmother lived with us, and when she passed away, like, I know that I saw her. And my mom came upstairs, and I was like, Grandma was, and she's like, what? I was like, Grandma

was in my room. And she's like, you were in there talking to somebody, so... How old were you? Like seven. Really? Yeah. But it didn't scare me or anything. It wasn't... Yeah, and I just think, who knows where we go? I believe in all that kind of stuff. What did she tell you? You're going to be worth

$60 million one day? What did she say? She said, you... You are going to be worth... No. Do day? What did she say? She said, you are going to be worth... No. Do you remember? I don't remember any talking. I just know that she was in my room and that's all.

And I just remember it didn't feel scary. It didn't... And then my other grandmother passed away and I was driving and I was upset because I was living out here at the time and just found out she's just passed away. And I was trying to literally drive somewhere where I could pull over because I was crying in the car. And I reached over and you should really reach to get to your glove compartment. And I opened it and out flipped a picture of my grandma. Wow. That I guess had been in there. I drove it out from Illinois, this car.

I had not opened my glove compartment, nor I have no idea why I had a picture of my grandma in it. Literally flipped up and ended up on the passenger seat face up. Wow. And I had not opened it. I'd had the car for like three years. So it wasn't like, oh, I just put it in there because I was thinking like it came out of nowhere. And I just, then when I finally pulled over, I was like, oh, everything's fine.

All right. We have more with Melissa McCarthy. When we come back, you know her from Bridesmaids, SNL. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now from Life of the Party, which is in theaters this weekend. Melissa McCarthy's in the building. Charlamagne Tha God, We Are The Breakfast Club. Now from Life of the Party, which is in theaters this weekend, Melissa

McCarthy's in the building. Charlamagne? You and Tiffany Haddish will be starring in a movie together. I just met her. I just met her. Yeah, it's she's a force of nature. Like she's a force of good. Like she's sweet and

fun, like crazy funny. Addictive energy? Yeah, you just kind of like I was sweet and fun like crazy funny addictive energy yeah you just kind of like I was just in from like the second I met her I'm like yep this seems like I'm just going to be like keep going she's great we start tomorrow

really? why are you not somewhere sleeping? what's wrong with you? because you have a movie to promote I'll just take that opportunity You guys don't mind if I just nod off for a minute And it's not a comedy y'all doing right? No not at all It's a drama

It's Hell's Kitchen 1970s And we kind of take over the Irish mob You know nobody's going to be expecting that You and Tiffany Haddish in a movie They're expecting it to be comedy, and y'all doing a drama. I know, which I kind of love. Yeah.

I think it's like a great, it's such a good script, and Elizabeth Moss is doing it too. It's a really cool story. But, yeah, it's not funny. What advice would you give, Tiffany? Because y'all kind of blew up in a similar way. You with Bridesmaid, her with Girls Trippin'. Now you're worth $60 million.

What advice would you give her? We call him a bird because all he talks about is your money. You're a good bird. Go ahead. Advice would I give her? Yeah. Not a word. Really?

She doesn't need, she does not need, she is clear and on her path. She knows, like, you just feel it in her. And when she talks about stuff, we had, we went out to dinner and she just had, you just know she, she sees what she wants, how to get it. And I mean that in a really like good way of like,

I'll work this way. And she's also like right in her element. Right. I always think it's really exciting when you find, when you meet somebody who's doing something that you're like, this is like, what if you weren't doing this? You're so built to do it, and you found it,

and you figured out how to do it better than almost everybody else. I get goosebumps where I'm like, you found it and hit it hard. I always think that's really, it doesn't matter what it is. It could be cooking, it be painting, could be music. But when you see someone drop into that, you're just like, I don't know. It's, it's,

it's pretty exciting. You feel like, who paid for dinner? Y'all both went out for dinner. Oh, listen. We let the director play. We just both walked out.

There you go. Hey. We just dropped, we dropped our forks and just walked out. Now Tiffany ran a Groupon on you. I got a rule that I don't pay for dinner if I'm with somebody that got more money than me. I think that's insulting to them.

Do you say like... No, I fake. I'm fake. I'll be like, oh, I got it. You go alligator arm? Yeah, I fake. You get to the wallet? Yeah, I fake.

I got it. And they'll be like, no, no, it's on me. Then they pull out the black card and be like... If we ever go to dinner, I'm just going to wait it out and be like, no, wait. You can get in their back pocket. I know you can. Do you feel like

women of color, or women in general and women, but specifically women of color, get overlooked in comedy? For sure. I think for so long women in general were always kind of like the parts and the actual characters were given to men. And then the woman was just kind of there to be like, oh, Jack.

And like, that's it? Oh, Jack. Oh, Tom. Oh, Phil. I mean, it's like I always want to put together a montage of how many actresses had to just stand there and go. And always kind of a bummer. So they have like a fun husband. The wife's always like. I was like like why is every woman a bummer and then certainly like women of color like there's there's such a a void again it goes back to that like i want i want to

see the real world it's like it's funnier it's certainly more interesting it's like when you clean it all up and you know it's like every woman's like done interesting. It's like when you clean it all up and it's like every woman's done perfectly and it's like I like a hot mess. It's better to see a story about somebody real where you can kind of relate to them. Either you're glad you're not them or you know somebody like them

as opposed to when it's always like the perfect woman in the perfect outfit. I'm like I don't really know any of those women. I'm sure they're out outfit. I'm like, I don't really know any of those women. I'm sure they're out there. I'm like, they're not my, like, I don't relate to that. But that's probably why you feel successful, because people can relate. It's been tricky, because sometimes it's, when we did Tammy, I was like, this is a woman who's like, it was our first movie together with Ben. And, you know, she was a mess.

But I was like, well, the characters, the whole she was she was a mess but I was like well the characters the whole point is she's a mess and she doesn't have a lot of like she doesn't think she's kind of worth a lot of stuff but people it was so interesting there were so many reviewers that were like so crude or grotesque like one guy kept saying like you're grotesque characters and I was like grotesque it's like what what's grotesque and he's was like grotesque like what's grotesque and he's like so crude he kept talking about crude crude crude and I was like can I just ask what

you're saying it as if I'm agreeing with you and I keep saying I'm not agreeing with it where's the crudeness come in he goes well just you know in general and I was like no you've got to tell me what do you mean by crude and grotesque well how you looked and I was like would you, you've got to tell me what do you mean by crude and grotesque. He goes, well, how you looked.

Yikes. And I was like, would you say that to a guy playing a character from somebody who's like a total mess? If he had like, you know, if he just looked kind of terrible because his life was falling apart. I'm like, would you ever ask a guy that? He goes, no, it's just that, you know, you didn't even have makeup on. And I was like, there we go. Wow. But I was like, but you use a crude and grotesque about that.

So I just, but that kind of like fueled me to be like, I can't listen to any of that stuff. Like you may hate the story or like the story. I love my characters because they're, they are flawed and I never want to, I never want to stop doing it because I think those are real women. What about that critic? Did you write his name down and slip it to the Time's Up people? No, but I do.

I'm like, what was his name? No, but I did call him out on it. This was in front of like 40 people. He kept saying that, and I finally was like, you need to explain yourself. If you're going to rip me apart, explain what you mean. And then by the time he said, well, you weren't even wearing makeup, I was like, and I'm done with you.

Tell us about Life of the Party. It comes out May 11th. May 11th. Tell us about this movie. Bring your moms. Bring your kids. Oh, it is Mother's Day. Yeah.

Damn, I should have remembered that, right? I do have a mom and a wife. I was like, you may want to make some calls to a flower shop today. No, I love this movie. It was, I was surrounded. It's about, I play Deanna Miles, who's dropping her daughter off at college, kind of empty nest. They're going to go on second honeymoon.

It's like mom, wife, like really happy life. And I was not supposed to rhyme. And then literally the second my daughter's out of the car, my husband says, like, I don't love you. I want a divorce. Wow. And just kind of rattles everything that I know. Like, we had our retirement set, like, all this stuff we were supposed to do,

and it's just like, nope, it's all the rugs pulled out. So after kind of a mild, pretty good freak out, I kind of realized, like, well, I was a mom, I was a wife, but, like, where did I go? Like, what was left for me? And one of the things she really regretted was never finishing school. She's a little like me. And it's kind of based on my mom, just in terms of she's really positive and decides to go back to school. But she goes back to college where her daughter's attending.

So her daughter's a little, like, glad you're getting it together, but maybe not here. I know you got to go, but why do you feel like you want to go back to college? What do you feel like you missed? Now I would just love to take like random classes. I wouldn't go back. But the thought of like, which I couldn't appreciate at 18, like sitting through like a history class or sitting through anything like an art, whatever the class is, I'd be like, this is great.

Like I would love to do like random classes now. At 18, I was just like. I was trying to get out. I was trying to get out. Yeah. I feel like everybody in life should go through that whole phase. And most of the time, college is like that whole phase. Yeah.

You just do whatever you want to do sexually. I think I did. Oh, there's that. I think I was doing that. I just wasn't. I just. I did that part of it. Are you saying you went

to your whole phase, Ms. McConaughey? I just wasn't attending classes. We got you. I was. I had a great. Don't get me wrong. I had a lot of fun at college.

I just. I didn't learn anything. Got you. But there you go. Oh, now we know why. Later. Later I learned. I feel like Groundlings

was my college, so. But thank you. Thank you for giving me the name. My whole phase. Yeah. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Later. Later I learned. I feel like Growlings was my college. But thank you. Thank you for giving me the name. My whole face. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you for coming by. Thank you so much.

Yes, life at a party and theater this weekend. That's right. Melissa McCarthy. Is your mom and wife present? Will you give me a loan? You're worth $60 million. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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So, people, of course, do not want R. Kelly to perform in venues right now. And in North Carolina, where he's supposed to be performing today, in Greensboro, People, of course, do not want R. Kelly to perform in venues right now. And in North Carolina, where he's supposed to be performing today in Greensboro, they're saying that if the show isn't canceled, then they are going to be protesting, standing outside of the arena in protest. So no reason, no word on whether or not they are going to cancel that show. But they said that they're going to keep it going. So we'll see what happens.

But in the meantime, Spotify has removed R. Kelly music from their playlist. All of it? No, so you can still find his music on Spotify, but he's not on any of the curated playlists that they have. What do you think? That's kind of hypocritical of Spotify, though. Well, we're going to talk about that in a second. We'll tell both sides of the story. Now, they have a new public hate content and hateful conduct policy. Y'all about to take down a lot of music. That they're putting into effect.

So there's flagship playlists like Rap Caviar, Discovery Weekly, or New Music Friday. So there's all these different genres or mood-based playlists, so they're just not actively promoting him, but his music is still on Spotify. They're doing the same thing with XXXTentacion as well. I don't like selective

morality, though. If you want to express moral outrage, you got to have it all across the board because there's plenty of people who have charges against women. And what about the music that actually degrades women? You going to take that down, too? Now, R. Kelly, his management team responded, We appreciate Spotify for continuing to make R. Kelly's songs accessible to millions of people, although it will stop listing his songs on its official playlist. They said Mr. Kelly for 30 years has sung songs about love and passion for women. He's innocent of the false and hurtful accusations.

And the ongoing smear campaign against him waged by enemies seeking a payoff. He never has been convicted of a crime, nor does he have any pending criminal charges against him. Bro, we saw the tape. But you know what, though? And I think R. Kelly's a piece of feces for all the things that he's doing, but is that right? Because he was found innocent.

Spotify just does that, you know what I mean? They said, meanwhile, though, Spotify promotes numerous other artists who are convicted felons, others who have been arrested on charges of domestic violence, and artists who sing lyrics that are violent and anti-women in nature.

That's why I say selective morality is a slippery, slippery slope. It is. Like, you can't, you know, point the blame at two people when it's other people that got music that got worse charges. Right. You know what I mean? That have been actually found guilty of things.

Right. Now, 50 Cent posted, Spotify is wrong for what they're doing to artists like R. Kelly and XXXTentacion. They're not even convicted of anything. And once again, what about the music that degrades women? What about that? Right. You're not going to take that down?

That's pretty hypocritical if you ask me. In the meantime, though, some people still love R. Kelly. This woman wanted to announce to her husband that she is pregnant, and here's how she did it. Guys, I've been waiting to sing this song to you for so long. We're having a baby. A little boy, a little girl, a little you, little me. Girl, it doesn't matter. As long as it's healthy. You know he's off key a little bit, but it's all good. Thank you. Congratulations, y'all. That white woman has no idea what R. Kelly

has done to little black girls. I know. She has no clue whatsoever. She's like, why did this go so viral? She has no clue what R. Kelly has done to little black girls. Zero. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee.

Charlemagne. Yes. Who you giving that donkey to? Four after the hour. Let's talk about it. Just be here four after the hour. Have a conversation. Yeah, let's just have a conversation. Four after the hour, we's talk about it. Just be here four after the hour. Have a conversation. Yeah, let's just have a conversation.

Four after the hour. We'll be here. All right. And Isaiah Banks will be joining us next hour. All right. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

You get donkey of the day. Yeah, you some ass. You get donkey of the day. Yeah, you some ass. You are a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm going to fatten all that shit around your eyes. They want this man to throw them blows, man.

They wait for Charlamagne to tap these gloves. Let's go. You have to make a judgment of who was going to be on the Donkey of the Day. They chose you. This is a breakfast club, bitchy. Who's Donkey of the Day today? Donkey of the Day for Friday, May 11th is nobody. But we have a young woman in here who has received donkey of the day a couple of times.

And she would like to talk about it a little bit amongst other things. Okay. Mrs. Azealia Banks. Azealia Banks. Hello. What's up, AB? Nothing much. Now, it must be a special occasion if you've come out of hiding to show your face and talk.

I'm never hiding. I'm never hiding. I'm never hiding. I guess I just wanted to wait until I had some new music. Got you. You've never been here before, actually. No. Never. Never.

Charlamagne and I have actually known each other via text for three years. Yes. Actually. We've never met each other. You know, is this the first time you guys have actually met face to face? Oh, wow. Yeah, because, you know, I've had my opinion about Azealia Banks over the years, and she's had an opinion about me.

What's your opinion? Charlamagne loves Azealia Banks. I actually do. I dig Azealia a lot. I think Azealia is a very misunderstood individual. And I realized that when I started actually having conversations with her. And I said, you know what? I apologize for giving you donkey of the day.

Because she told me about a lot of the things that... Why did you give a donkey of the day? I don't remember. He gave me donkey of the day. Because she told me about a lot of the things that... Why did you give a donkey of the day? I don't remember. He gave me donkey of the day, if I remember correctly, for defending myself to T.I. I remember during that whole Iggy Azalea

debacle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And T.I. said something about me and then I said something back and then you called me donkey of the day. Yeah, you said something about his wife, I think it was. No, that was way after. Oh. I don't remember. But whatever it was, I apologize for it. And I apologize again, Miss Banks. She only gave you a donkey once? Oh, thank you, Charlemagne.

Or did he give you a donkey twice? Was it once or twice? Charlemagne's always giving me donkeys. Always a donkey. With the movie thing, remember? No, it wasn't the movie thing. Did he give a donkey that time? No, no, no. She was definitely not the donkey in that situation. Okay. Yeah, and she called me a jiggaboo and a coon. Aw, I apologize for calling you a jiggaboo.

It's all good, AB. So you're from Harlem. Yes. But I don't think a lot of people, I don't want to say respect, but they don't support you like an artist from Harlem. Why do you think that is? Who's a lot of people? A lot of New Yorkers, I would say.

I would say that. They don't support you like I think that they should. Do you agree or no? I don't agree that they should support me just because I would say that. They don't support you like I think that they should. Do you agree or no? I don't agree that they should support me just because I'm from Harlem. And, you know, I wouldn't say that people don't respect me. I think that... Respect's a bad word. I think it's support, I would say.

It's better. The perception is bad. Even still, I still think that there are a lot of people who actually do support Azealia Banks. For a very long time, we've been really focused on this, you know, narrative of Azealia Banks, this like music industry villain type of thing. But aside from that, I actually do live a normal life. I have friends and pets and fans and streams on Spotify and plays on YouTube, you know. You think some of the narrative,

of course you know some of the narrative you created yourself. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you feel like the music industry bad girl? Or hip hop industry bad girl? No. I feel like, I don't know. I don't know how to say it

without sounding really ignorant, but. Just say it, speak freely. I just feel like that dorky black girl who everyone thinks is kind of weird. Do you think you feed into the negativity instead of focusing on your craft more? Sure. Don't we all? This is what gets me about Azalea.

She knows what she's doing, but she won't stop doing it. I think she's... What is there to stop doing? What have I really done? What have I actually really done? You would make a great, and I've told you this before, you'd make a great, like, personality. You're not afraid to express your opinion.

How about I'm a great musician? You definitely are. But being a musician in the music industry and then critiquing other people the way that you do makes other people not want to deal with you. Well, whose problem is that? I think that when I offer my opinion or offer my critique or anything like that,

it's always in a way for me to digest what I'm seeing. You get what I mean? Do you like Nicki Minaj and her music? Yeah. Y'all in a good space now. Yeah. Y'all remind me of each other. We went to LaGuardia.

We went to LaGuardia each other, which is not just the way that you speak and the way that you talk. It's everything about y'all. The aura. It's that whole aura. LaGuardia, actress, drama. That's what you do. Y'all remind me of each other.

Nice. Thank you. A lot. Have y'all spoke outside of social media? No. I saw she mentioned you in the interview. I know. That was really good.

Thank you, Nikki. You feel like that put you in a good place? Finally, you got a... Somebody wasn't afraid to say Azalea Banks is dope. Are you kidding? People say I'm dope all the time. This is what I'm talking about.

No, no, no, I'm talking about music industry people. Music industry people say I'm dope all the time. It seems like you're always getting. Kanye West called me the future of music. Nas is like,

what did Nas say? He was like, oh yeah, she's got the full package. Solange bigs me up all the time. People like and love and respect Azealia Banks. I don't know why you keep trying to tell people that they don't.

So you think it's just that like when you... It's you, Charlamagne, god damn it. But you know, they pay more attention to things that you say on social media than your music. No, they pay more attention to the things you say. You get what I mean? Yeah. Okay, so you've got say you've got

a million listeners every morning, right? And say I've got 10,000 followers on Twitter. If I say something to those 10,000 people, it kind of goes away. But when you guys

latch onto it, the media latch onto it and you guys blow it up, then it becomes a thing. Yeah, that's when Shade, Roomba, all of the post-it stuff. But is that my fault?

Yes. No, absolutely not. We've had these Tuff stuff. But is that my fault? Yes. No, absolutely not. We've had these combos, AB. It's not my fault. Because I'll hit you and be like, no, you didn't have to say that. So what? I said it.

So what? I said it. Who cares? That's my point. Why do people care? But it's the gift and the curse, right? Like you can't pick and choose what people gravitate towards.

You put out a song, you want something like that. People can choose, you know. A lot of people, I see people really stress themselves out in the comment sections over things that I say. And it's just like,

damn, I don't think I could ever imagine being that, you know. Pressed? Well, not pressed, because pressure, I don't know, I'm a very anxious girl. So I'm always in some state of

pressedness. You have anxiety? Of course. Yeah, me too. I think because of that, and you're not going to like this, but I think because of that people don't get actually a chance to meet and understand Azealia. How many times have I been telling you that? How many times have I told you that? Exactly. Well, how many times

have you been telling me you're going to set up my podcast and you'll never do it? Oh, stop it. C's full of shit. That's not true. Full of shit. I'll be like, Amy, let's do it. And I'll be like, hello, hello, hello. I really feel like people misunderstand you, but they'll never understand you because they

look at the negative things or whatever you say. They're so attached to what you say and not necessarily the things that you do, whether it's the music, whether it's the acting, the fashion. I don't know why. A lot of my opinions are terrible. You know, like you really should not subscribe to this. I'm saying what people do. You know why they're so attached to some of the people that you talk about that you leave comments about.

But that's why it's even more ill because you are an artist. So when I know people, no, no, no. Don that's why it's even more iller because you are an artist. So when an artist speaks out about other artists. No, no, no. Don't subscribe to Azealia Banks' opinions, okay? That's it. But they do. You know, when you talk about some of their favorite artists, that's what they see.

They don't hear the music. They don't see the fashion. They don't see the acting. They see Azealia Banks just said this, and that's what they're attached to. And then all of a sudden, you know, people don't understand that you can have an opinion, so they pick sides.

And all of a sudden, your side is... Everything you're explaining to me is like people's problems and not Azalea Banks' problem. I can control what people do. You're right. I can only be myself. How did you like your shout-out on Atlanta? Oh, I liked it. It was like, look how Azalea Banks been in here.

I like it. That was nice. Thanks, Donald. Do you still do that with the chickens? I don't know if you put something on me just now. What was that look you gave me just now? You're not allowed to talk about that? Oh, sure I can talk about it.

So do you still do it? Jesus Christ, don't look at me like that. I don't know if you're putting something on me. All right, you got skincare products too, right? Yes, I do. What is the skincare product? Jesus Christ Don't look at me like that I don't know if you're Putting something on me Now can we Alright You got skin care products too right Yes I do What is the skin care products

You know she'll hit me And be like I can tell you bleaching Oh I'm not bleaching girl If you're rubbing out of cream You think he's bleaching Charlamagne's bleaching I've never bleached

Both of us have been Accused of skin bleaching though We're bleaching siblings. Yes, we are. No, we're not. That's how Charlamagne and I bonded. We were sharing skin bleach recipes. She was hitting me with all kinds of stuff, telling me all kinds of chemicals.

I'm like, I don't know what this is. Oh, shut the fuck up. Come on. Charlamagne's got Nadi Nola, immediate Claire, volume party. Charlamagne's mixing. Charlamagne got a tub under the bed. All right, we got more with Azalea Banks when we come back.

Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

We have Azalea Banks in the building. Now, did you really call Cardi B Everybody, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We have Azealia Banks in the building. Now, did you really call Cardi B an illiterate, untalented rat? I did. Why? I just think that, you know, and this is going to sound really deep. When I look at black women's culture as like a whole thing, right? And then you think about the media and the power that the media has, like how the media had the power to get rid of me. The media has the

power to make anyone like the forefront, you know, that this is what we're trying to like grab black women's consciousness with right now. You know, I think that it's very concerning to me that this this conversation surrounding black women's culture like changes from I don't know, because I feel like maybe two years ago, the conversation surrounding black women's culture was really reaching an all time high. And we were really like discussing, you know, our power amongst ourselves. And, you know, Beyonce came out with Lemonade. And, like, there was just this really, really, really intelligent conversation going on nationally.

And then everything just kind of changed. And then it was like Cardi B. You know what I mean? You don't think it grew, though? What do you mean grew? Like it grew. I think people took what Beyonce was doing and it grew, like, in all aspects. Because, I mean, for every Cardi B,

you got a SZA, and you got Issa Rae, and you got Ava DuVernay, and you got Tiffany Haddish. Right, right, right. Are you talking about her music and what she raps about? No, no, no, no. Are you talking about her struggle or what she did? No, not at all.

I'm just talking about, like, this caricature. You get what I mean? This caricature of a black woman that black women themselves would never be able to get away with, you get what I mean? This caricature of a black woman that black women themselves would never be able to get away with, you know? Like if my spelling and grammar was that bad,

I'd be canceled. If Nicki Minaj spelled like that, I'd just be ragging on her all day. You know what I mean? I mean, Fab has been spelling wrong his whole career and we like Fab. Right, but we're talking about women.

Gotcha. You know, so we've already established that there's a double standard there. I think that when it comes to this black women's culture thing, I just don't understand how we go from

Beyonce and Lemonade and Solange and all of these like great conversations, Black Lives Matter, all these conversations to like this. Well, black women

aren't monolithic though, either, right? I know we're not monolithic, but come on. And you used to like Cardi B. I used to. They had a video of you in the club going crazy to vote. Yeah, I was really drunk that night.

What made you not like her? You know, because I have three daughters. Of course I don't want my daughter to be a stripper. She's a businesswoman now that's employing people. Why is she looking like that when she's a businesswoman? Because it's just like, I don't know. I feel like you guys just use everything to, like, make this, like, bigger than what it is. Mm-mm. Yeah. I feel like it's, like, I don't know. I feel like you guys just use everything to make this bigger than what it is. Mm-mm.

Yeah. I feel like it's a little like- You call somebody an illiterate, untalented rat. That's crazy. I'd let the record show. I wasn't even going to bring it up, by the way. No, I'm just asking. I know you weren't going to bring it up.

No, I'm asking because I don't know. I really want to know because I'm trying to learn more about you because I've never spoke to you. This is the first time I met you. Yeah. So when you say things, I want to get to the deeper side of what makes you think I just I just don't understand the like extreme lack of coups you know I've never seen that at the forefront of female rap I let I didn't know that the standards that the bar would be lowered so much. It was kind of like a culture shock.

The bar went from Beyonce Lemonade, this very, very extremely intelligent conversation to But we see that in all genres of music. We see that in rap. Just a young lady from the hood. That's great. But when you're talking about

this female rap thing like bitches that really push their pen, I just feel like it's unfair to the real institution of female rap. We're talking about this for way too long. Honestly, I think you give Cardi B enough free promotion. Let's talk about Anna Wintour. But I love Rhapsody. And I love Azealia Banks.

And I love Tink. I think Cardi B would love Anna Wintour. I think it would make her feel really good if she listened to Anna Wintour. Maybe she should put the headphones on her belly and let the baby hear Anna Wintour. All right, well, let's take it out of Cardi B. Do you feel that way for male music as well? I don't care. I really don't care about male music.

Didn't you used to be in the studio with Kanye back in the day? Back in the day, yeah. Yeah, you used to write? Did you help him write? I didn't say all that. Oh, so y'all just used to work together, studio with Kanye back in the day? Back in the day, yeah. Yeah, you used to write? Did you help him write? I didn't say all that. Oh, so y'all just used to work together, collab? No, we were just talking. Got you.

How was those conversations? Very scattered. Do you understand what he's going through now? Because you had your love for Trump moment. Listen, I wanted a tax break, okay? Everybody keeps trying to pin this love for Trump on me. That wasn't the point. I feel like, you know.

This was before he was president, by the way. Yeah. I feel like the system's the same on both sides, you know. No matter who you're voting for, the American dream is, it rests on a systematically oppressed underclass. Be it black people, Latino people, people in jail, people in China building for us for cheap, you know, like that's just the name of the game. So either way you go, somebody's getting, you know, wouldn't you want to get a couple extra like $30,000 back on your tax return?

Like you're going to die the way. Now, let's put this in context. She was saying this before he was president. When he became president, she changed her tune. Yeah, because it's like, all right, Trump, you're just cheapening the presidency now. You just, you know what I mean? Like, now you're just being sloppy. Okay, because I'm also an American.

Like, I grew up watching South Park. I love the bullshit. Like, calling Kim Jong-un fat and short. I think he's, like, the adult human, like Eric Cartman. Like, he reminds me so much of Eric Cartman. A big part of the reason why I didn't want to vote for Hillary Clinton is because I felt like her movement was just shrouded in so much like white feminism. It just seems like we're just going to get this woman to the presidency

and like completely ignore the fact that her and her husband are the reason that so many black families are divided now. Like the 1994 crime bill. You get what I mean? That's why, you know, people going to jail for like a bag of weed and dumb like that. We're like we're forgetting that this woman called us super predators. You know, she's blatantly like trying to peddle to us and talk about she's got hot sauce in her bag and all type of like that she's like literally talking to us like we're idiots you know i always say that i like my racist racist you know me too i don't like any of that covert like um and yeah i i felt i i just i and i i feel this way about feminism

too i feel like the conversation or the feminist conversation is always very white female centric. And I just felt like if Hillary Clinton won, that was just going to be like a win for white women and just like more losses for black women, because that was just going to give them even more of an excuse not to deal with like the intersectionality and all of the different all of the other women that fall under that feminist banner or like you know should be included in there so how do women of color become i guess all inclusive in that movement or do they ever want to do we want to be you know i mean like we've seen it with the suffrage, suffrage movement. Black women helped white women get the right to vote. And then they just kind of left us, you know, left us to fend for ourselves. We were the last American citizens to get the right to vote.

So, yeah, I guess I guess it's a bit about, you know, realizing that history can and will repeat itself. And the fact that Donald Trump was seemingly a political outsider, I was willing to take the chance, you know? A lot of people were. But you're one of the people that can say, I made a mistake voting. Well, she didn't vote. No, you didn't vote for him, did you?

Did you vote for him? Don't look at me like that. Now, you also said you like your racist races, right? Yeah, I like my racist races. What happened in Tel Aviv? Because you said that you'll never go back because they're racist. I can't go back to Tel Aviv? Because you said that you'll never go back because they're racist. I can't go back to Tel Aviv.

Are you banned from the country? No. Oh. No, I'm not banned from the country. Just everywhere I went, there was just looks, looks, looks, looks, looks. Went into a restaurant. People would be like, like, I'd come in and they'd be like, hold on a second. Showing on their face that they needed to go, like, get their mind together before they served black people.

There was only, like, we only ate in one restaurant. Every other restaurant we went to, the people were just kind of like, oh, then in the airport, it was just like, you know, the people are like working for the airline. We're just clearly giving me and my security guard a hard time. I was seeing a lot of people with UK passport, white people with UK passport, just passing through, passing through, passing through. And just the vibe I got was very, like, unwelcoming. It kind of just gets to

a point where you're just like, damn, I'm a n***er here too? I'd rather just go home and be a n***er at home. Alright, we got more with Azealia Banks when we come back. Alright, let's get on her joint right now. It's called Anna Winter and then let us know what you think about it.

It's the Breakfast Club. Matter of fact, tweet her if you like it, tweet her. If you don't like it, tweet her that too, all right? All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Everybody, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Azealia Banks is in the building. Charlamagne? Let me ask you about RZA. He was here and he admitted that Russell Crowe did

spit in your direction. You said he spit on Let me ask you about RZA. He was here, and he admitted that Russell Crowe did spit in your direction. You said he spit on you. Do you forgive RZA now, or are you still... I don't give a f*** about RZA. RZA can call me when he's got some money for me. Y'all did a movie together. It came out early this year. Love Beats Rhymes.

And you didn't even want to promote it. I mean, because it was embarrassing, you know? All of the things that happened around the movie was really humiliating. What director is going to throw the star of his movie under the bus? Like, you f***ing idiot. Like, RZA and I were the only ones who suffered.

You get what I mean? Russell Crowe was the one who choked me, spat me, a little bit lands on me. Like, you choke me off, throw me outside the room and he gets to walk off scot-free. And here's me and RZA arguing out loud, you know, f***ing up both of our reputations

for this s*** that he did. If RZA was smart, he should have just shut the f*** up. Who's gonna want to see a movie in which the director has slandered the lead actress? Like Russell Crowe's already established. You and I are trying to make our play. Why are you defending him?

Why did you press charges against Russell Crowe? Because they bought the tapes. And to be honest, I didn't have the money at the time. Everybody that was there that night, if you watch the TMZ testimonies, they're all conflicting stories. Everybody was down to lie on Russell's behalf. I was just about to start recording the soundtrack

for the movie, you know, and then think about that, you know, like, goddammit RZA, you are like directing a film with Jill Scott, Common, Azealia Banks, and RZA, and you can't manage to forge a f***ing soundtrack. Jesus. Do you think that if that would have happened maybe a year later during the whole

Time's Up Me Too movement, people would have heard your voice a little louder? Who gives a fuck? I'm not like trying to, like seriously, like I really don't give a fuck about these two clowns. My biggest thing is like you guys fucked my moment up. That was my movie and you fucked it up, Rizzo. Have you reached out to you at all? No, and he better not. As Russell Crowe?

I mean, you never know. No. How does that affect any other movies that you try to do? Does that reputation, alleged reputation of what happened? Of course it will. Yeah, that was really stupid. Like, you f***ed the both of us out of a lot of f***ing money. Technically, it was Russell Crowe's fault, though.

Yes, and now RZA and I... She said it was his fault for going to bat for him that was wrong. That's what she said. And now you and I, RZA, are out of a lot of f***ing money because nobody went to see the movie. The movie flopped. We didn't have a soundtrack. All of the things that we were supposed to get done, we didn't get done.

But every time, you know, every time you're like calling me to go to the studio, I show up to the studio and you're coked out. Who, RZA or Russell? RZA! Like, he's really a dummy. Don't believe any of that f***ing gong-banging f***ing nunchuck-throwing shit he be talking about. That nigga's a fucking clown.

Shut up, man. Seriously, the nigga read one self-help book and, like, goes like this. You know what it is, Zay. Zay, you know what? And he thinks he's some fucking sensei. Say alleged cocaine. Alleged. Yes. Alleged. But, Kim, so after the thing happened, And he thinks he's some f***ing sensei. Say alleged cocaine.

Alleged. Yes. Alleged. But, Kim, so after the thing happened, he put that whole letter on Facebook, and then he was just like, oh, yeah, Azealia Banks and her psychiatric health. Like, RZA was giving me money to go to, like, the psychiatrist. You know what I mean? And he, like, put that out there as if that was something he was against me.

There's nothing wrong with therapy. Therapy's great. But why? Like, why would you, like, say that? Because he was trying to. There's nothing wrong with therapy. Therapy's great. But why would you say that? Because he was trying to paint you as crazy. But why? Why? When we have a movie to sell. What are you doing? He's making sure his friendship with Russell Crowe was better. Listen, let me tell you

something, you dumbass. Russell Crowe is never going to do another movie with you, okay? Everyone saw The Man with an Iron Fist. That was trash. You're not a talented director, you know? You should probably stop wasting people's time and money. I don't know why people don't like you, Isaiah. I don't know either.

I like Isaiah. In April, he posted a message on IZ saying that you was drugged and raped, which was concerning. Yes. I got GHB'd. What is that? Some white boy. I got GHB'd at a bar.

You were by yourself? Mm-hmm. I was staying at a hotel because I was doing some press, and I was just drinking, and some guy came over and just started buying me drinks. White guy? Of course. And he's just buying me drinks,

and I guess in between then and there, he, like, dropped something into my drink. We get upstairs to the room, and drinking some more. We're drinking some more, and okay, this is really graphic. I'm just going to say it. So I keep trying to kick this guy out of my room, but he keeps sticking his tongue in my ass.

Your pants were down. I was like dancing around my room naked, but I was like planning to kick him out. And every time I tried to kick him out, he just went and started eating my ass. And one thing led to another, and then I just started getting heavy. Like my body just led to another, and then I just started getting heavy. Like, my body just started getting heavy, and then I realized something was wrong.

And I just started screaming, and I kind of, like, stumbled and kicked him out. And then I fucking collapsed on the bed and cried. Like, once I realized that I was, like, on drugs that I didn't know I was on, the next day, like, my whole throat was, like, burning. I had pins and needles I could barely swallow. So you got him out. He didn't penetrate. It was.

So this is, this is the thing. Like whatever, whatever drugs he put in my drink made my so dry. Like my was just dry. So it was just like a sloppy dry hump. And you probably would have got with him if he hadn't drugged you anyway. I don't know. I really don't know. He was eating my ass.

That's weird. I know. Who drugs you and eats your ass? Right. It's like, you're going to just say you anyway. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really don't know. He was eating my ass? That's weird. I know. Who drugs you and eats your ass? Right. It's like, you could have just saved your drugs. You could have just ate my ass. I might have just. I ain't supposed to laugh at that.

What's wrong with you, yo? What's up, man? Why you got to say things like that? Listen. Now, you talk about how Kanye, not Kanye, RZA was paying for your psychiatric therapy. I go to therapy every week.

Yeah. Do you enjoy therapy? I love it. All right. Azalea is one of the people who I talked about therapy with early on. This is therapeutic for her right now. It's therapeutic for me. This is great. You told me that I probably needed CBT, cognitive behavior therapy, and you was right.

Yeah, but you've changed a lot. I'm really proud of you, Charlamagne. Really? You used to be really f***ing rude. And if I'm going to be honest with you, the reason I started a problem with you is because of when you made little mama cry. I didn't make her cry, though. I feel like every black girl in the world hated you in that f***ing moment.

You just kept going in on her. She was telling you that her mom had just passed. You kept going in. No, I stopped after that. And then you were calling her ugly. Like, little mama's gorgeous. I never called her ugly. You were like, you look like a 40-year-old man.

You did say that. You did. You piece of shit. That was eight years ago. But it was horrible. It was. It was. You're right.

It was. And as, like, a young girl who listened to Little Mama, I was really against you. And you know what I told Isaiah when she tried to check me on that? I said, I know you ain't fucking talking about getting at people. I think y'all see yourselves in each other. Like, I really do. Like, y'all are almost like the same person. We're from the same tribe.

We might be. But you know, me and Little Mama was actually supposed to crack jokes on each other. That was the thing. Yeah, but you made her cry, so you lost. No, I didn't make her cry. No, you lost. You did make her cry. It was disgusting, though.

It was an ugly moment. I hate that. Anyway, Anna Wintour. Oh. Oh, now he wants to listen to the music. Oh, now he wants to listen to the music. Okay. Anna Wintour, are you going to drop an EP or album?

I'm dropping an album in July. It is the second installment of the first Fantasy Project. And it's called Fantasy II, the second wave. So I'm going back in my like whole mermaid vibes and doing the sea punk thing. I was going to ask that. So for somebody who hasn't heard your music, knows your name, but hasn't heard your music, how would you describe your music? I got something for everybody.

I have straight, like, you know, pure R&B tracks. I have pure hip-hop tracks. I have some tracks that are a bit more tropical. Then I have, like, you know, the house-y stuff. Then I have trans music. What's trans music? Trans music is kind of like a... It's like techno, electro, kind of.

Like, I should be high when I listen to that, like, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. See, he goes to Trans Cloud. I don't. Didn't you get taken advantage of, too, by, like, an early manager? Yeah, but. Like your boyfriend or something? Yeah, I was a crazy little girl. I was a crazy little girl.

But he was even worse, because he was a grown-ass man. I know. I was like 17 dating some 50-year-old white guy. Wasn't he like the manager of One Direction or something? No, Coldplay. Coldplay. Now that I look back on it, I'm just like, ugh. It's disgusting. I can taste his

old wrinkly neck. Yeah, but that don't got nothing to do with him putting his hands on you and stuff. Yeah. Forget all that. Like, he wasn't doing you good. Once I started blowing up, he started getting, like, a little, like, you know, because things changed.

I wasn't, like, his little plaything anymore. I was Azealia Banks the star. And I started demanding more things and wanting more things. And one day, because he was, he was going through this divorce the whole time we were together, so she finally hits the fan. You knew he was married? Yeah. But you was young. How old were you at the time?

I was 17, 18. But he told me that he was separated. He was lying. Then eventually I found out that he's still married. By that time, I'm still already in love with him. What's his name? Why protect somebody like that? Because I just don't care. You know, I'm up now.

But stuff like that would make you hate the industry though. Yes. Tell them where to follow you on Instagram and all that good stuff. At Azealia Banks. A-Z-E-A-L-I-A B-A-N-K-S. And I think Azealia Banks is extremely talented. As you can tell, she's extremely

talented. And Charlamagne's extremely light-skinned. Stop it! I'm so proud of my light-skinned brethren. Would you stop already? Azalea Banks, ladies and gentlemen. My goodness. Yes. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's time!

Time! She's spilling the tea. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Missy Elliott looked incredible. And how did she do it? She posted a picture of herself and she said, Proudly to say, it's been four months I have only drank water, no other juices or soda. And I cut out bread. And Lord knows that's been the hardest for me.

See, I've never been a water drinker, but this has helped my skin. It really restored the glow back, and I don't feel sluggish. She said, next up, if she could only cut out junk food, she said, ish, that's my weakness. But if I can give up those other things, I'll fight that too. Maybe only two cupcakes a month. I love Missy Elliott. She looks great. But I will say this.

I hate when people talk about water as if it's something new. Like, I just started drinking water. Our body is made of three-fourths of water. Like, what were y'all drinking when y'all was kids? Soda. I was drinking water. No, when I was a kid, I really didn't drink water. I used to play outside a lot. So we used to play a lot of basketball and run around in football.

We used to drink out the holes all the time. Water holds water. That's all we used to drink. I never drank water holds water, but I definitely did not drink water ever growing up. We did when we played basketball and when we played outside, but then when we went inside, there was no water inside. You know what I drank? A lot of fruity juices.

We had lemonade. My mom used to make iced tea. Lemonade. A lot of soda. We had red Kool-Aid, but that was a treat at dinner. Any other time, it was water. Yeah, but you know what? When people do, and they've done they, actually I was just reading a whole study where somebody, all they did was drink water just like Missy Elliott said she did. And it really makes such a huge difference when it comes to your skin, your weight.

Yes, because your body is made of three-fourths of water. So it's easy to say that, but not everybody clearly does that, as Missy Elliott just did it now, and she's 46 years old. And that's ridiculous. So I love the fact that she posted that picture and said all of that. Hey, guess what else I just started doing? What's that? Breathing, taking in this oxygen. It's really good for you. I mean, it's easy to

say that, but for some people it's not so easy. So, you know. Nothing's easy in this world. She said that she hadn't done it before and now she is and she feels great. And there's a lot of people, trust and believe, everybody doesn't just drink water all the time. Absolutely. Alright, Tiara Marie. Now we all saw that leaked sex clip

that was put out. I'm not sure who put it out. Some people were saying she did it herself. She denies that. But here is what she had to say on TMZ. So, yes, I record videos. I did everything. But I don't understand. He threw me under the bus. I don't understand what's

going on myself. He keeps telling me that he didn't do it. Was it a bad breakup? It hasn't even been a whole breakup. So wait, you were still together with this person? Oh yeah, you're still together now. Yeah, we are. Well, after the whole sex tape, of course I'm pissed and of course I still feel a way, but we talk

every day and we're still like in communication with each other. Now he says that his phone got hacked and she doesn't believe him at all. Well, when she was actually with her boyfriend, right, because she's still talking to him. It's not like they ever stopped talking. There's actually pictures, I guess, they're trying to say that

she smashed his car windows and all of that because of this whole porn situation. Well, here they are together where she, he's saying that it's her ex-boyfriend that actually posted these videos and pictures. Tell the truth. Tell about your ex. Not me. Her ex had everything.

But you still was the one. Her ex had access to everything. Not me. Pierre, if you and your dude would stop talking about it, we'd have forgot already. I promise you. I don't know. It was pretty a big story yesterday. Yeah, it was. Everybody, people was hitting me about it. Like, do you have the picture? Do you have the video? Where can I find it? Alright, now T.I. and Tiny, it's. Everybody, people was hitting me about it. Like, do you have the picture? Do you have the video? Where can I find it?

All right. Now, T.I. and Tiny, it's been a year since their show ended, and rumor is that they could be coming back to television. It seems like, according to the Jasmine brand, VH1 is interested in reviving their show, and BET is interested in bringing back Tiny and Toya as well. I wouldn't be mad at that. Both Tiny and Toya have done a lot.

They have a lot going on right now. I'm not mad at Tiny and Toya. And what about T.I. and Tiny coming back? I always love to see black families on TV. If they want to. It's been on for a long time though. How long? It's been on for a year. It's been on. I'm talking about the T.I. and Tiny show. It's right before he got locked up. At least 8-9

seasons. That long? Yeah. Yeah, baby. I'm not mad at that, though. They still got a lot going on, and their kids are still young. Yeah, if they want to do it, I think that'd be great, because I actually used to really watch that show. Me too.

And the kids, some of them are so grown now, so it'd be interesting to see how that is. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Report. All right, thank you, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back, shout to all the moms out there. I'm doing a Mother's Day mix,

and I'm going to start it off with, first, Plies. The remix to his rock song. So shout to all the moms. That's the rock and all that. Plies did a remix to rock for mamas? Yes. Well, not for mamas. He just did a remix for rock.

Oh, so it's like your mom is the rock of the family. Exactly. Or your girl or your wife, who's your baby moms and all that. What? The remix is about your mom being the rock? I didn't say that. I just said I'm just dedicating it to the moms because sometimes the rock of the family

is the moms. You said you're dedicating that song and flyers being there talking about getting s*** and all kinds of other stuff and you're dedicating it to moms out there.

This goes out to my mom. Shout out to you, mom. It has nothing to do with She's talking about sweet s***. Shout out to you. There's nothing to do with that. What's good about this song

is that this song, the remix actually represents for the ladies as well now. Yeah, Remy Martin's on the remix. Remy Ma. Don't dedicate it to the moms. Just say you're playing the remix.

I don't know, but your mom could be your rock. You don't know what the content of this record is. I heard the record. I played it. Okay, well. Okay, well,

here's an exclusive for you guys. Not only that. But the truth to the matter is your mom do got good poom-poom to somebody. So if Fly does say Sweet P***y Saturday, that's for the daddy.

That's for the dad. There you go. There you go. And also, we're going to premiere Fat Joe's new record. This one is actually called Mama, and it's featuring Big Sean and his

dedication to all the moms out there. So we're going to start the mix off with those two records. Let us know how you feel about that. Revolt, we'll see you on Monday, and happy Mother's Day planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete.

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