Charlamagne Tha God has given DJ Envy “Donkey of the Day” for flubbing his phrases whereas discussing Angela Yee’s feedback about The Breakfast Membership.
Envy was requested about his former co-host’s points with the allegedly predominantly male present throughout a current interview, throughout which he struggled to say the phrase “context.”
His interview got here after Yee — who departed The Breakfast Membership after greater than a decade in December — spoke in regards to the lack of girls concerned with the favored morning radio present and claimed she usually bore the brunt of problematic statements made on air by Charlamagne and Envy.
“I used to be the one lady who labored there too, when it got here to producers, digicam individuals; and it wasn’t a straightforward room for me to be in,” she mentioned on The Tamron Corridor Present final week. “So I really feel like I did want extra backup.
“Even issues that I felt as a girl, someone can’t perceive your standpoint as a result of they’re not coming from the place you come from. And in order that was arduous for me too, to be the one lady there with no person to test someone, ‘You shouldn’t have mentioned that like that.’”
Whereas Charlamagne has remained tight-lipped about Angela Yee’s feedback, he declared Envy “Donkey of the Day” throughout The Breakfast Membership‘s every day broadcast on Tuesday (March 7).
“The rationale it’s going to DJ Envy is as a result of I watched my good brother over the weekend get his ass kicked on the web. Not within the bodily sense, however figuratively,” Charlamagne defined. “And it pissed me off so dangerous. Matter of reality, I texted Envy and all I mentioned to Envy was, ‘Context, n-word. Context!’
“We don’t should let you know what occurred! Let’s hear what occurred. Let’s hear Envy wrestle for his life as he was drowning as this phrase simply wouldn’t come to him,” he added earlier than cuing up the audio clip in query.
“Her phrases had been taken out of… I suppose, technicality,” Envy may very well be heard saying. “I suppose her feedback and the issues that she mentioned had been taken out of character and brought out of…”
Envy hid his face behind his desktop monitor in embarrassment because the audio performed, however that didn’t cease Charlamagne from roasting him much more.
“She obtained taken out of the automotive! She obtained taken out the membership! He couldn’t consider the phrase ‘context’ to avoid wasting his life! I imply, greedy! Clawing! Reaching! Please someone throw me a life raft!” he joked.
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“Beard melting off his face, black-beige operating down his neck ’trigger he can’t get out that water. It’s ‘context,’ Envy! You went to Hampton, bruh!”
DJ Envy defended himself by saying he wasn’t absolutely sober in the course of the interview, and was caught off guard when the subject of Angela Yee got here up.
“I used to be DJing my present they usually had been giving me drinks and alcohol, so I used to be consuming,” he mentioned. “It was in Detroit. So I completed DJing, I used to be good, after which they got here and mentioned, ‘Hey, I wish to discuss to you in regards to the present.’
“I’m considering they speaking in regards to the present I simply did, and it was like Angela Yee and every part that’s occurring … I couldn’t get [the word] out! I don’t know! … All of us misspeak typically.”
DJ Envy didn’t wrestle to seek out the correct phrases when initially responding to Angela Yee’s gripes about The Breakfast Membership on Instagram final week.
“[Cap emoji] That’s simply not true,” he wrote in a touch upon The Shade Room’s Instagram web page. “[Cap emoji] There are many ladies that work behind the scenes on @breakfastclubam.”
Throughout the present’s “Rumor Report” section on Monday (March 6), Envy doubled down on his assertion that The Breakfast Membership is a female-friendly office whereas revealing he and Yee have spoken over the telephone about her feedback.
“Nicely, I’ll say this: what she mentioned wasn’t true,” he mentioned. “I can’t inform her how she will really feel about being on this present, as a result of on this present, she’s right — it’s me, Charlamagne and herself. So yeah, she was the one lady within the room.
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“However when it got here to producers, there are such a lot of totally different ladies that labored up right here and that proceed to work up right here. So I didn’t like the best way they put that The Breakfast Membership doesn’t have ladies right here or doesn’t respect ladies’s views as a result of that’s not true.”
He added: “Me and Yee obtained on the telephone final night time and she or he understood what I used to be saying, and she or he mentioned that she meant within the room, which means the individuals that really labored within the room. However that’s not what that clip mentioned and that’s not what went out, and that’s what I used to be upset about.”
For her half, Angela Yee — who at the moment heads up her personal noon radio present known as Approach Up With Angela Yee — took to Twitter on Monday to make clear her unique feedback.
“Often I don’t remark or travel with individuals however there’s an excessive amount of spinning. ‘Within the room’ referred to the individuals within the studio: the producer, board op, videographer and hosts,” she wrote. “Sure they’re males. That doesn’t imply that there aren’t superb ladies who’re execs, salespeople, interns, and in different departments.
“I’ve mentioned this on many events: that it may be arduous when your viewpoint is totally different primarily based in your expertise. I didn’t anticipate that this could trigger such a firestorm. Everybody texting me “are you okay” (which I respect!) and I do know I don’t usually take the time to overexplain as a result of it drags issues out much more however that’s all.”
Often I don’t remark or travel with individuals however there’s an excessive amount of spinning. “Within the room” referred to the individuals within the studio: the producer, board op, videographer and hosts. Sure they’re males. That doesn’t imply that there aren’t superb ladies who’re execs,
— Angela Yee (@angelayee) March 5, 2023
salespeople, interns, and in different departments. I’ve mentioned this on many events: that it may be arduous when your viewpoint is totally different primarily based in your expertise. I didn’t anticipate that this could trigger such a firestorm. Everybody texting me “are you okay” (which I respect!) and
— Angela Yee (@angelayee) March 5, 2023
I do know I don’t usually take the time to overexplain as a result of it drags issues out much more however that’s all 🤷🏽♀️
— Angela Yee (@angelayee) March 5, 2023
