LisaRaye McCoy made headlines several weeks ago when she spoke about Nicki Minaj, saying that she should “bow down” to the people that came before her — specifically Lil’ Kim. For years, Nicki has been fighting to stop the Lil’ Kim comparisons and, once she heard them again last month, she decided to devote part of her verse to LisaRaye.

“Dollar, dollar bill, come get her/Even your man know Nickis do it better,” rapped Minaj about LisaRaye. Her lyrics reference the actress’ claims that Nicole Murphy (another Nicki!) wrecked her marriage.

Well, LisaRaye stepped into The Breakfast Club to officially respond to the drama, getting above it and brushing it to the side.

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“Let me tell you, I didn’t know what the hell they were, first of all,” she tells DJ Envy and Angela Yee about the Barbz, Nicki Minaj’s fans. “And I didn’t know they were coming after me. Vivica Fox is the one that called and she asked me, she says, ‘Are you okay?’”

Fox explained to her who the Barbz were before giving her the rundown on why they were pissed. Once she understood, she looked into it and decided that she did not care one bit.

“Maybe about 25 comments in, I was like, ‘I don’t give a damn about this.’ ‘Cause I don’t,” she said. “I’m way above anybody that wanna come after somebody that they don’t know, want to misappropriate what I said and take it out of context. I don’t have time to be fighting that kinda fight ’cause we are fighting a real fight right now.”

LisaRaye goes on to say that music should not be about beef.

“Music shouldn’t be about a beef. It’s not mafia, it’s not gangster, it’s entertainment,” said LisaRaye. “It’s music, so let’s keep it light while we’re not tearing each other down.”

Watch below at the 4-minute point.

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When DJ Envy of The Breakfast Club shared yesterday that Russell Simmons would be joining the show on Wednesday (June 10), there was a little pushback from the public. Not everyone was happy to hear about the interview, especially Sil Lai Abrams, a woman who accused Russell Simmons of raping her back in 1994. She took to her Twitter account to call out The Breakfast Club and its hosts, calling them "rape apologists" in her tweet.

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During Simmons's video conference appearance, the Def Jam icon refuted claims that he behaved inappropriately. "I could never say that someone doesn't feel victimized," Russell Simmons said. "Thirty years ago... These stories are twenty-five to forty-years-old. I can't say someone doesn't feel victimized. I can tell you that I don't feel that I victimized them. And how can I say that? I took nine separate three-hour lie detector tests by two separate teachers. Polygraph. So I just want to share that. They're available to you. I just wanted to say that, and I don't know what else to say other than I feel terrible."

Then, Simmons said that during Oprah Winfrey's investigation, he read a report by one woman and said he "believed her." He stated, "She said she got in the car and the car door locked. My first instinct was sh*t, the car doors lock in 1990. Cadillacs. So, it was a misunderstanding as far as I can tell. But I believe her. But I also passed nine tests because I believe me." Russell Simmons added that while he does feel terrible for the women who were "victimized." he isn't the "monster" that people are painting him out to be. Check out Simmons's explanation below and let us know if you watched the controversial On the Record documentary.

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Kanye West finally broke his silence, donating $2 million to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. He also put aside money in a college fund for Floyd's daughter Gianna and donated to local businesses in his home state. In addition to that, West was spotted on the frontlines, protesting with Tony Williams and others in the South Side of Chicago. So why are people still mad at him?

That's the question that DJ Envy is asking himself this morning. 

It may have made sense for there to be Kanye slander as he was remaining silent but, now that he has shown that he supports the movement, you would expect people to stop dragging his name through the mud. 

He’s an animated character in hip hop that defines the word entertaining. Love him or hate him, Boosie Badazz commands attention. The Lousiana rapper not only continues to bring the heat to streaming services, but he’s the talk of social media. He’s back in Instagram’s good graces after receiving a warning about his content, and in a recent chat with The Breakfast Club, the rapper shared that he’s taken the twerking offline and brought it home.

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“We threw a party last night in my club,” he revealed. “We gotta club in my house. Ass everywhere. Beautiful women. F*ck quarantine. We threw a party. Ass everywhere.” DJ Envy interrupted and told the rapper not to say that because authorities will come knocking at his door. Charlamagne Tha God asked Boosie if he believed in coronavirus, and the rapper shared that he believed he had it previously.

“I was sick before the sh*t hit. I had an asthma pump for the first time and everything,” he said. “But I don’t give a f*ck about no coronavirus. I kinda basically live on faith. I don’t live on sight, what people say. I just feel like, God know when your ass gon’ die. So if you gon’ die from the coronavirus, get yo ass ready. That’s just how I feel.”

Boosie Badazz added that he’s not allowing the COVID-19 pandemic to “stress [him] out like its doing everybody else.” Watch his interview with The Breakfast Club in full below.

The relationship between Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God continues to be strained. The Breakfast Club co-hosts seemed to be as thick as thieves to listeners, especially as the two have worked together for years. However, Angela told Variety in January that they’re just co-workers at this point in time. 

“We’ve always been the same. We work together, it is what it is,” Angela said of Charlamagne Tha God. “Like he said, we’re co-workers. A lot of people have jobs where they don’t necessarily love the people they work with, it’s just a part of life. That’s not the person you’d hang out with in real life.”

Angela popped up once again in an Instagram Live interview with Fox Soul‘s Out Loud with Claudia Jordan where she was asked about her co-host. Donny Bell wanted to know how Angela felt when Gucci Mane disrespected her during his interview with Charlamagne. Bell said had the rapper pulled a move like that and said something negative about Claudia, he would have stuck up for his friend.

“I think, you know, that’s just not… I don’t expect that from Charlamagne,” Angela Yee said. “But, I think [DJ] Envy, Gucci went at me and he went at Envy. He did those things and I think for some people, it’s more important to get—that was like a big moment for him. So, I think, some people I think, and this is just how it is, are interested in views and getting that up and not necessarily like… For me, there’s a lot of things in my life I’ve never done just because I’ve never been like, ‘Oh my God, I gotta date a celebrity, I gotta do this.’ That’s just not me.”

Elsewhere, Angela addresses rumors that The Breakfast Club is coming to an end. She said she doesn’t know anything about the validity of the rumors but she did confirm that all of the hosts’ contracts aren’t the same and end at different times. Check out clips of Angela Yee speaking on her relationship with Charlamagne Tha God below.

Earlier today (March 13), Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club interviewed the legendary and non-aging, actress Angela Bassett and she revealed some chilling details as her role as Tina Turner in the iconic biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993). While she was robbed for the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the superstar singer/songwriter, Bassett has accumulated one of the most decorated film careers in history. The 61-year-old thespian has become a household name for her performances in films like Malcom X (1992), Waiting to Exhale (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and more. In more recent years, Ms. Bassett has found a resurgence becoming a member of the Marvel Universe starring movies like Black Panther (2018) and becoming a mainstay on the highly-popularized thriller television series, American Horror Story. 

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While Angela Bassett continues to have one of the most historic runs in film and entertainment history, it was her story and the disturbing experience of filming some of the most gut-wrenching scenes ever revealed in a music-based biopic as she portrayed Tina Turner. Around the 14:00 minute mark of her latest interview with The Breakfast Club, Angela Yee reveals that Bassett has landed another role as Anna Mae in an upcoming film. The same name of Bassett’s character in What’s Love Got to Do With It.

When asked if she was bothered by the name selection, Vampire in Brooklyn actress stated that she wasn’t offended by it. Charlamagne Tha God then went on to ask Ms. Bassett about the cerebral process of playing Tina Turner who was a victim of physical, verbal, and sexual assault throughout the notorious film and how she was forced to embody that trauma in order to deliver a convincing product. Bassett responded in the most eloquently way she knew how, stating:

“It was… you know the scenes. The rape scene by the aquarium. Or him, fighting (me) and getting dragged down the hall. But, it was good to have a colleague (Laurence Fishbourne) to have that in someone you trust and I’m speaking on Laurence, to go through that (with). Because he’s got you. You know? He’s got you emotionally and just actor to actor.” 

Bassett continued:

“The hours were long. It was extremely physical. You actually hurt for thirty straight days. If you’re not dancing, you’re lifting weights so, the lactic acid build-up for thirty days something, everything hurt, but you had to go on. Some of it was understood, the dynamics within a relationship, between a man and a woman, you know? Black love. Violence. Or whatever. And like you said it inhabits your spirit and yet ‘we’re making a movie.'”

As a victim of sexual assault as a child, Angela Bassett remained extremely candid and transparent about a filming process that could have mental consequences on even the greatest of actors/actresses. 

Angela Bassett also spoke on the coronavirus, accolades, Broadway, and more. Check out her interview with The Breakfast Club in the video provided below and skip to the 14:00-minute mark to hear the living icon discuss her portrayal of Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It. 

After slightly confirming the news on Instagram last month, dynamic father/son duo Master P and Romeo stopped by Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club with Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy to officially break it to fans of the WE tv reality series Growing Up Hip-Hop that they won’t be returning to the show.

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While it was initially reported that Romeo’s exit was influenced by a fake love triangle storyline, the Miller men decided to clear up the air a bit so people know the real reason for their departure. “I feel like the show is not going where it used to be at,” P said in response to the question of whether or not it was true they were leaving, also citing integrity as a huge factor as well. Romeo chimed in for a clearer answer by saying inner peace, mental health and growth are his main priorities after being in the game for 19 years, also adding “It’s not about the money; I’m the highest paid on the network. I had to walk away because I can’t sell my soul for money — I can’t sell my soul for a storyline. It’s never worth it for me at the end of the day.” 

Watch Master P and Romeo further explain their exit from Growing Up Hip-Hop on The Breakfast Club below, in addition to talking about generational wealth, their many entrepreneurial endeavors and Biggie-branded Rap Snacks:

News broke yesterday morning about Pop Smoke, one of the pioneers of the modern wave of Brooklyn drill rap, who was shot and killed in the Hollywood Hills. The exact circumstances of his death remain unclear but, in recent updates, it’s been suggested that this could have been a gang-related incident. It is also being treated more as a targeted hit than as a random home invasion. After mourning the losses of Nipsey Hussle, Juice WRLD, and more in the last year, the hip-hop community is having a tough time accepting the fact that Pop Smoke is gone, and the city of New York is understandably taking it the hardest. The Breakfast Club radio show, which is based in the Big Apple, was live on-air when reports started coming in about the tragic passing of the rising rapper and they have now shared the isolated moment when they found out what happened.

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The tone of DJ Envy’s voice was sombre when he did his usual introduction to the show, swinging things right to Angela Yee who had some truly unfortunate news to report. “This is breaking news. According to TMZ, Pop Smoke was just shot and killed,” said Yee, carefully reading through the documents before sending her condolences to the family of the late star. 

Just a week before his murder, Pop Smoke had debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with his new album Meet The Woo 2. The Brooklynite was on pace to become one of the breakout stars of the year and it’s honestly heartbreaking to consider how short his life ended up being.

Rest in peace, Pop.

After spending two decades in the rap game, Yo Gotti is experiencing another career surge after the release of Untrapped. The veteran Memphis rapper started off the year by celebrating a few major accomplishments, including the end of his deal with Epic Records and the acquisition of all his master recordings. As a recording artist, purchasing your master catalogue is one of the greatest investments you can make but, unfortunately, it never becomes a feasible option for most rappers. Running press for the album, Yo Gotti stopped by The Breakfast Club to chat with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy, and Angela Yee about how he’s freed himself mentally in the last year, flaunting his freshly-inspired untrapped mindset and speaking on the central themes to the album.

We all know that, when he wants to, Yo Gotti can make a banger. If he goes into the studio with the intention of creating a strip club anthem, a radio hit, or a cut that’ll shoot up the charts, he can do it. With Untrapped, Big Gotti employed a different approach to music creation. He tells the hosts of The Breakfast Club that his intention was to focus on telling stories. Commencing the album with “Trapped” and ending it with “Untrapped” wasn’t just a conscious decision; it detailed his mental activity while putting together the body of work. It also symbolically spells out the end of his deal with Epic.

Speaking about the final record on the project with Estelle, the Memphis spitter says that “Untrapped” was inspired heavily by the attitude Nipsey Hussle kept. “That’s one of my favorite records,” said Gotti, referring to his Estelle collab. “I recorded that the day after the thing happened with Nipsey [Hussle] too. I think a lot of the Nipsey energy was what inspired me to write that record from a more mature level.”

Many are hailing this version of Yo Gotti as a return to the “old Gotti.” For the Nipsey Hussle comments, watch below at the 18-minute mark.

Fabolous has been a mainstay in the game for two decades, having transitioned from punchline aficionado to mixtape diety to a well-rounded artist. A few months removed from the release of his Summertime Shootout 3, Fab has kept the press tour alive with another stop on The Breakfast Club. Seeing as the album has already been given breathing room, the conversation is a little more free-flowing, even jol. 

Around the thirty-seven minute mark, Fab opens up about some of the inherent dangers of being a punchline rapper. “Sometimes you say punchlines, and you may not even know the seriousness behind it,” he explains. When Envy asks whether anyone ever pressed him about a punchline, Fab shares an interesting story. “You know who actually stopped me? Solange. It was some mixtape freestyle, and I said ‘if you could have Beyonce would you take Solange? Luckily she didn’t run down on me in an elevator.”

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“The first person I saw was B,” he continues. “She was like ‘let me holla at you.’ I went over there and she was telling me they rock with me — I didn’t think when I was saying it, I didn’t connect like that. With Beyonce, I ain’t gonna share the exact conversation but she told me, these are people. Saying something like that could personally hurt her. I said ‘I did it, and when I see Solange that I’ll apologize to her. I ended up seeing her, years ago. I beelined to Solange to apologize. She was stiff. I was like ‘ey what’s up.'” He proceeds to mirror her cold response. “I was like, I didn’t mean any malice but I apologize for it,” he continues. “She was like, cool.” 

Ever the optimist, Charlamagne points out that he got lucky and everyone has a laugh. “It really woke me up,” he confesses. “Up until that point, I would say anything in a rap if it was catchy.” Check it out for yourself below, and be sure to check out our own conversation with Fab right here.