Via NYT:
Charlamagne Tha God, the shock-jock host of 105.1’s morning show, “The Breakfast Club,” has a penchant for making his guests squirm.
His interview with Kanye West went viral.
When Justin Bieber arrived to promote his album “Believe” in 2012,
Charlamagne admonished him for the company he was beginning to keep,
telling him that it was fine to do records with black rappers, but to
stop hanging around them because eventually they were going to get him
into trouble.
When Lil’ Kim came on his program,
he told her she was beautiful and that he couldn’t understand why she
had gotten so much plastic surgery. (On his Twitter feed, he compared
her current look to the basketball player Jeremy Lin.)
And when Jay Z appeared earlier this year, Charlamagne wondered whether
the rapper would have become a titan of industry if his close friend
Christopher Wallace (better known as the Notorious B.I.G.) had not been
shot and killed.
“I’m a slightly obnoxious person,” Charlamagne said, when asked why he
always asks questions like this. “I don’t even think about it. You know
what I’m saying? I just like to have conversations with people.”
Still, no interview he’s done in three years of hosting the program has
garnered as much attention as the one he did a few weeks back with Kanye
West.
He stopped by the show the morning after his Barclays Center concert and
sat uncomfortably for 40 minutes as Charlamagne pummeled away at him.
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