Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club blends radio reporting with a style of humor and honesty. As an American syndicated radio show since 2010, The Breakfast Club provides New York and 20 other markets with their fix of Hip-Hop and R&B and pop culture news. The personalities of The Breakfast Club include DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God.
The Breakfast Club personalities: Angela Yee, DJ Envy, and Charlamagne Tha God. Credit: https://www.facebook.com/breakfastclubam/timeline
DJ Envy, a native of Queens, New York, got his rise as a DJ during the early 1990s under legendary DJ Clue? and Hot 97 with legendary radio personality Angie Martinez. Angela Yee, a native of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, got her start with Shade 45, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. Charlamagne Tha God, a native of Moncks, South Carolina, got his rise in the radio business working along side with radio and television personality Wendy Williams.
The Breakfast Club is also known as “The World’s Most Dangerous Morning Show” due to their infamous interview segment. They interview many of today’s biggest Hip-Hop and R&B celebrities as well as celebrities throughout pop culture including Kevin Hart, Russell Simmons, and Arnold Swcharzenegger. During their interviews, DJ Envy handles asking the celebrity questions pertaining to their industry, Angela Yee ask the questions pertaining to the celebrity’s love life and rumors surrounding their love lives, and Charlamagne Tha God is known for his unorthodox and sometimes inappropriate line of questioning.
Along with their infamous interviews, The Breakfast Club has some other popular segments such as “Donkey of the Day,” “Tell em why you’re mad,” “DJ Envy’s People’s Choice Mix,” and “Ask Yee.” “Ask Yee” provides audience members to call in and ask Angela questions usually pertaining around their personal relationships. “Tell em why you’re mad” allows the audience to call in and vent about something that in their life that has them mad. “DJ Envy’s People’s Choice Mix” allows the audience to pick songs that they want to hear in a mix that will play during the four and half hour show. “Donkey of the Day” allows Charlamagne to poke fun at a celebrity or public figure that has made a misstep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTW9P-SNRQ
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