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Vice President Kamala Harris Neatly Packed Up Charlamagne tha God, Twitter Reacts
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is currently doing its best to advance promised policies even as tensions grow between their side and members of their own party. Charlamagne tha God pushed Vice President Harris on a question of who is actually running the country, which sparked a moment that has Twitter talking. During an airing of Tha God’s Honest Truth, Charlamagne asked Harris a rather pointed question. “Who’s the real president of this country?” Charlamagne said. “Is it Joe Manchin or Joe Biden?” The question made Harris sit straight up and look directly to the camera to give Charlamagne a read that he probably wasn’t expecting on national television. Come on, Charlamagne, it’s ...
Travis Scott’s Lawyer Defends Charlamagne Tha God Interview
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rick Kern / Getty Travis Scott’s recent interview with Charlamagne Tha God attracted a fair share of critics wondering why he did the sit-down – it turns out the rapper pushed for it to happen. In an interview with TMZ on Thursday (December 9th), the “Sicko Mode” rapper’s attorney, Ed McPherson, addressed those people who got wind of the interview with The Breakfast Club host and stated it was his idea to speak out publicly that way. Related Stories “This was all Travis. Travis insisted on it, he’s been wanting to speak out to the public, to the fans. He’s been reaching out to the families affected,” McPherson said. The nearly hour-long interview was Scott’s first since the tragic events at the Astroworld Festival last month, where a crowd surge took the ...
Travis Scott Gives First Interview Since Astroworld Tragedy
After weeks of silence in the aftermath of the Astroworld tragedy, Travis Scott has given his first interview regarding the events that transpired. Scott sat down for a conversation with Charlemagne Tha God on his YouTube channel. [embedded content][embedded content] “I’ve been on different types of emotions, an emotional rollercoaster,” Scott told Charlemagne at the beginning of the interview. “It gets so hard because I always feel connected to my fans, and I went through something and my fans went through something and people’s parents went through something and it really hurts. It really hurts the community, it hurts the city. It’s just been a lot of thoughts, a lot of feelings, a lot of grieving, and just trying to wrap my head around it.” Scott said that he “didn’t know” that Astrowor...
Soulja Boy Addresses Drake, Ye FKA Kanye West On ‘Tha God’s Honest Truth’ With Charlamagne Tha God
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Soulja Boy has laid claim to be the inventor of a number of viable Hip-Hop trends, and he may well be the first rapper to go viral. The Atlanta rapper and entrepreneur sat down with Charlamagne Tha God to break down a handful of times he broke the Internet by way of his outsized personality. Big Draco, 31, was a guest on Charlamagne’s Tha God’s Honest Truth talk show for the “Inside The Rapper’s Studio” segment. Soulja, this time more subdued and laid back than he normally is, watched Charlamagne air videos of his most viral moments and asked for a breakdown for each instance. Related Stories As for the infamous “Draaaake” moment, Big Soulja said, “It was all about Drizzy. They caught me off guard with that question,” prompting Charla...
Charlamagne Tha God To Host Late Night Talk Show On Comedy Central
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nick Fancher / Comedy Central Charlamagne Tha God is returning to your late-night television screen. The media personality and host of The Breakfast Club is getting late night talk show on Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey is set to premiere on September 17 at 10PM ET on Comedy Central. The series is being executive produced by Stephen Colbert, who besides hosting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, happens to share South Carolina roots with Charlamagne. Colbert also came to fame on Comedy Central hosting The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014. Source: Scott Kowalchyk for CBS / Comedy Central The weekly late-night series is being billed as a “culturally fluent take on social issues” as Charlamagne offer his tak...
Charlamagne Gives Himself “Donkey of the Day” Over Insensitive Kwame Brown Comments
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tom Williams / Getty Charlamagne Tha God decided to give his infamous “Donkey of the Day” award to himself. On Monday (Mar 24), Charlamagne revealed his decision after explaining to listeners that the reason was due to him “going too far” when touching on the fellow South Carolina native, Kwame Brown’s, personal life; before adding that he was urged by mutual associates to publicly apologize to Brown. “I’m sure I caused pain for not only Kwame Brown but for his family—‘specially, his family in my hometown of Moncks Corner, South Carolina. You know how I know? Because I spoke to a few of them,” he said around the clip’s 1:30 minute mark. “I was apologizing for triggering them.” Charlemagne’s apology comes a few days after the former shock-jock turned menta...
Diddy Warns If Trump Gets Reelected “There Will Be a Race War”
Diddy has launched a new political action committee, the Our Black Party, with the goal to “center the needs of Black people and Black communities in the political process.” In a fiery interview with Revolt TV, the mogul repeatedly made the point that politicians have neglected the needs of Black Americans, and warned that “If Trump gets elected, I really do believe in my heart there will be a race war” (via Yahoo! Entertainment). In conversation with Charlamagne the God, Diddy suggested that Trump further exacerbated racial tensions with his recent remarks about white nationalist militias in which he said they should, “stand back and stand by.” “White men like Trump need to be banished,” Diddy said. He explained, “That way of thinking is real dangerous. This man literally t...
Charlamagne Tha God Launches Black Effect Podcast Network With iHeartMedia
Source: Tom Williams / Getty Charlamagne Tha God is making a huge leap for Black culture. On Wednesday (Sept 9), The Breakfast Club host announced a partnership with iHeartRadio to launch The Black Effect Podcast Network, a passion project with an aim to encourage discourse on important topics within the Black community. Spearheaded by Charlamagne, the Black Effect Podcast Network is scheduled to premiere this fall with 18 podcasts on iHeartRadio and is projected to become the largest podcast publisher committed to Black audiences and voices in Black culture. The mission is clear: “to amplify, elevate, and empower emerging and established talent.” “Our goal is to shift the narrative from Black creators signing transactional deals, to instead forming legacy partnerships that build generatio...
Charlamagne Tha God Blames Joe Budden’s Poor Negotiation Skills For “Trash-Ass Deals”
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Now that Joe Budden announced his show’s departure from Spotify, Charlamagne Tha God couldn’t help but offer his professional, but possibly blind assessment of what went wrong behind the scenes during the former rapper’s contract renewal with the streaming service. According to his calculations, Budden more than likely has trash negotiation skills. “It sounds to me like Joe Budden is a person who knows his worth but doesn’t know how to properly negotiate it,” Charlamagne said on The Breakfast Club. “‘Cause if you keep doing deals with various corporations and you keep getting trash-ass deals, that’s on you. Things like vacation days, bonuses, all of that has to be negotiated in your contract from the beginning.” [embedded content] On the topic of leverage, Char...
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