Charlamagne Tha God has given DJ Envy “Donkey of the Day” for flubbing his words while discussing Angela Yee’s comments about The Breakfast Club.
Envy was asked about his former co-host’s issues with the allegedly predominantly male show during a recent interview, during which he struggled to say the word “context.”
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His interview came after Yee — who departed The Breakfast Club after more than a decade in December — spoke about the lack of women involved with the popular morning radio show and claimed she often bore the brunt of problematic statements made on air by Charlamagne and Envy.
“I was the only woman who worked there too, when it came to producers, camera people; and it wasn’t an easy room for me to be in,” she said on The Tamron Hall Show last week. “So I feel like I did need more backup.
“Even things that I felt as a woman, somebody can’t understand your point of view because they’re not coming from where you come from. And so that was hard for me too, to be the only woman there with nobody to check somebody, ‘You shouldn’t have said that like that.’”
While Charlamagne has remained tight-lipped about Angela Yee’s comments, he declared Envy “Donkey of the Day” during The Breakfast Club‘s daily broadcast on Tuesday (March 7).
“The reason it’s going to DJ Envy is because I watched my good brother over the weekend get his ass kicked on the internet. Not in the physical sense, but figuratively,” Charlamagne explained. “And it pissed me off so bad. Matter of fact, I texted Envy and all I said to Envy was, ‘Context, n-word. Context!’
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“We don’t have to tell you what happened! Let’s hear what happened. Let’s hear Envy struggle for his life as he was drowning as this word just would not come to him,” he added before cuing up the audio clip in question.
“Her words were taken out of… I guess, technicality,” Envy could be heard saying. “I guess her comments and the things that she said were taken out of character and taken out of…”
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Envy hid his face behind his desktop monitor in embarrassment as the audio played, but that didn’t stop Charlamagne from roasting him even more.
“She got taken out of the car! She got taken out the club! He couldn’t think of the word ‘context’ to save his life! I mean, grasping! Clawing! Reaching! Please somebody throw me a life raft!” he joked.
“Beard melting off his face, black-beige running down his neck ’cause 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 fully sober during the interview, and was caught off guard when the topic of Angela Yee came up.
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“I was DJing my show and they were giving me drinks and alcohol, so I was drinking,” he said. “It was in Detroit. So I finished DJing, I was good, and then they came and said, ‘Hey, I want to talk to you about the show.’
“I’m thinking they talking about the show I just did, and it was like Angela Yee and everything that’s going on … I couldn’t get [the word] out! I don’t know! … We all misspeak sometimes.”
DJ Envy didn’t struggle to find the right words when initially responding to Angela Yee’s gripes about The Breakfast Club on Instagram last week.
“[Cap emoji] That’s just not true,” he wrote in a comment on The Shade Room’s Instagram page. “[Cap emoji] There are plenty of women that work behind the scenes on @breakfastclubam.”
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During the show’s “Rumor Report” segment on Monday (March 6), Envy doubled down on his assertion that The Breakfast Club is a female-friendly workplace while revealing he and Yee have spoken over the phone about her comments.
“Well, I will say this: what she said wasn’t true,” he said. “I can’t tell her how she can feel about being on this show, because on this show, she’s correct — it’s me, Charlamagne and herself. So yeah, she was the only woman in the room.
“But when it came to producers, there are so many different women that worked up here and that continue to work up here. So I didn’t like the way they put that The Breakfast Club doesn’t have women here or doesn’t respect women’s views because that’s not true.”
He added: “Me and Yee got on the phone last night and she understood what I was saying, and she said that she meant in the room, meaning the people that actually worked in the room. But that’s not what that clip said and that’s not what went out, and that’s what I was upset about.”
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For her part, Angela Yee — who currently heads up her own midday radio show called Way Up With Angela Yee — took to Twitter on Monday to clarify her original comments.
“Usually I don’t comment or go back and forth with people but there’s too much spinning. ‘In the room’ referred to the people in the studio: the producer, board op, videographer and hosts,” she wrote. “Yes they are men. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t amazing women who are execs, salespeople, interns, and in other departments.
“I’ve said this on many occasions: that it can be hard when your viewpoint is different based on your experience. I didn’t anticipate that this would cause such a firestorm. Everyone texting me “are you ok” (which I appreciate!) and I know I don’t normally take the time to overexplain because it drags things out even more but that’s all.”
