Charlamagne Tha God Responds To Mo'Nique's "Breakfast Club" Bashing

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The actress wasn't happy at all about being "Donkey of the Day" back in 2018, and the radio host said he learned a lesson from that.

Mo'Nique's recent appearance on Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay, as is seemingly becoming typical for the podcast, was quite wild and elicited a lot of reactions. She spoke on many industry topics, interpersonal drama, past criticism, and previous ruffles with the likes of Netflix in 2018 over racial and gender bias. Moreover, this call to boycott the streaming service resulted in the actress getting a "Donkey of the Day" title from Charlamagne Tha God on The Breakfast Club. A tense interview followed that, and in 2022, she and Netflix "amicably resolved" a discrimination lawsuit and she got a comedy special shortly after.

Now, the Maryland native looked back on this exchange with Charlamagne and the radio show with Sharpe, and had some choice words. "People were having call-ins when I said, ‘This is not right,’" Mo'Nique shared with Shannon Sharpe. "I was ‘Donkey of the Day.’ Remember that? The Breakfast Nubs called me the ‘Donkey of the Day.’ That’s what they said. And they had a whole call-in about how I was the ‘Donkey of the Day.’ But you didn’t do the same thing when you found out we settled."

The Breakfast Club Discusses Mo'Nique's Club Shay Shay Comments: Watch

Furthermore, it seems like this whole exchange taught The Breakfast Club, and Charlamagne Tha God in particular, a valuable lesson. He gave some thoughts on Mo'Nique's comments during the show's latest episode, taking the moment to fix some previous wrongs in her eyes. "We gave Mo’Nique big love when the Netflix special happened," the media personality expressed on air. "And I said, ‘You know what? That’s why I need to mind my damn business when it comes to other people’s business.'"

Meanwhile, another notable claim that the 56-year-old shared on Club Shay Shay was about a previously viral episode on that show with Katt Williams. "Everything Katt Williams sat here and said, we all know it to be the truth," she stated. "However, we get so caught up in, 'Well, I ain't gonna say nothing. Can you believe he said it?' [...] It's the messenger, baby. We get so caught up in the messenger that we'll overlook the message." For more news and the latest updates on Mo'Nique and Charlamagne Tha God, log back into HNHH.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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