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Momodu, S. Charlamagne Tha God Next Next post: Amelia Robinson Jones He later joined the program as co-host. Working alongside Williams not only introduced Charlamagne to a new audience, but it also helped strengthen the voice that has defined his career — a voice he now uses to reach audiences in all mediums — from syndicated radio, to television, to print, to digital and new-media. Currently, Brilliant Idiots is streamed and downloaded by hundreds of thousands of listeners and fans per episode.
Charlamagne hosts The Breakfast Club , a. Each morning between the hours of 6 and 10 a. The first is an accusation of sexual assault dating back to , the charges for which were later dismissed. While Charlamagne did plead guilty to the lesser charge of "contributing to the delinquency of a minor," he said he "had no physical contact with the alleged victim whatsoever. In , he was pictured with the conservative pundit, who had just described the Black Panther Party as a terrorist organization in a widely shared video, outside Viacom's offices in Times Square.
Charlamagne told me that their meeting had been orchestrated by Viacom executives who thought the pair could make the basis of an entertaining talk show. The next day, Charlamagne tweeted that it might be beneficial if a left-leaning woman of color created a popular online platform similar to Lahren's. He was quickly denounced by Black women across the internet , including the comedian Franchesca Ramsey and the writer Jamilah Lemieux , who said they saw his comments as an erasure of their efforts and existence.
It was just a dumb-ass tweet," he said. All those sisters were already out there doing the work We weren't doing our part to uplift them. He described the saga as "The Tomi Tsunami" in his second book, "Shook One," and the moment was perhaps the largest strategic shift of his career. While his talent previously took center stage in his burgeoning media empire, he quickly adapted to focus on uplifting the people he was building with.
I'm gonna be even more intentional about empowering Black women and uplifting Black women," he said of the time. This is now explicitly reflected in the makeup of his business activities. He's quick to point out that the head of his podcast network is a Black woman, Dollie S. The first book out of his publishing label is by the activist Tamika Mallory, a cofounder of 's Women's March. And the entirety of his personal executive team is made up of Black women.
At the time, Charlamagne said on "The Breakfast Club" that Cannon's firing showed "what you can do when you have the power. And if there's one thing Jewish people have showed us, it's they have the power. When he made the comments, he said, he had been frustrated that Black people didn't have the collective power to bring criminal charges in three police-involved killings , including that of Breonna Taylor. I don't want people to be able to do things to people in our community like kill us and there not be consequences and repercussions for it.
In between our conversations, Charlamagne announced another new project: the Mental Wealth Alliance, a foundation focused on providing mental-health resources for Black Americans. Since he has so many projects in motion, I asked him whether he was concerned about balancing the raw persona that has shaped his career with the restrictions and responsibilities of mainstream America. Mainstream is hip-hop.
And it's been like that for the longest. If you look at the pop stations, pop stations aren't doing great. And the reason pop stations aren't doing great is because pop radio stations haven't embraced the fact that pop music is Black music Lil Baby sold more records last year than Taylor fucking Swift! While Charlamagne's rise has largely followed Stern's "shock-jock" blueprint, it has also coincided with hip-hop's shift to the mainstream. But now that most of his business endeavors have moved away from music, I asked him whether he still considered himself a hip-hop figure who held influence over the genre.
One thing that people fail to realize when it comes to hip-hop is that hip-hop has always been broad. It's even so weird to me what people even call mainstream. Like, nah, man, I'm happy doing what I do. A few weeks later, a clip from Charlamagne's "Donkey of the Day'' segment from "The Breakfast Club" made the rounds online.
In the video, Charlamagne gave himself the infamous title, which has been handed to everyone from Tyrese Gibson to Nancy Pelosi and is signaled by an animated, braying hee-haw. He issued an apology to the former NBA player Kwame Brown for discussing on the air intimate parts of his family history, including his father's and brother's convictions for murder. This wasn't the first time that Charlamagne had given himself the "Donkey of the Day" title or apologized on the radio, but there was something different about this moment.
In the past, similar concessions had been preceded by backlash: In , it was his association with a Trump-supporting Kanye West that earned him a hee-haw.
But there hadn't been any notable mainstream controversy surrounding his initial comments about Brown.
In fact, during the episode, he attempted to defend Brown against internet trolls before he inadvertently made light of his violent family history.
At the end of his apology, Charlamagne told listeners that he has never claimed to be perfect; that he would make mistakes because "the same things people listen to me for are the same things they hate me for: Because I talk too much. I overshare. I overshare about myself, I overshare about others, and that has historically got me into trouble.
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