Ray Daniels Says Charlamagne Turns Into a Jay-Z Glazer on The Breakfast Club — Even During Nelly’s Interview
Ray Daniels has a problem with Charlamagne Tha God — and it’s not really about an interview. It’s about Jay-Z.
In a clip going around today, the music executive says that when Nelly sat down with The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne wasn’t focused on interviewing Nelly — he was busy bigging up Jay-Z. Ray calls Charlamagne a Jay-Z “glazer,” says he uses The Breakfast Club platform to defend Hov, and says plainly he hates to see it.
Now, this didn’t come out of nowhere. Back in August, Charlamagne gave Ray “Donkey of the Day” on The Breakfast Club after Ray claimed on his own podcast that Jay-Z’s next album was completely finished — just waiting on the right business partner to drop. Roc Nation shut it down publicly with two words: “Fake news.” Charlamagne went further on air, saying Ray had admitted to him in the past that he sometimes says things for attention and opportunity. So there’s real history here: an executive who feels he got clowned on the biggest morning show in hip-hop, by a host he believes plays defense for the very artist at the center of it.
Ray has been telling his side since — he took it to Drink Champs with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN to break down what really happened with the album claim and the Donkey piece has its own backstory: Nelly and Charlamagne’s interviews have been tense for over a decade — Charlamagne once called their 2012 sit-down the most intense interview of his career, saying he genuinely didn’t want problems with Nelly. So if Ray’s right that even a Nelly visit turned into a Jay-Z appreciation session, that’s a pattern worth arguing about.
Here’s the real debate, though: is Ray Daniels exposing something true about how the biggest platform in the culture moves around its most powerful artist — or is this a man still hot about getting Donkey of the Day’d on national radio? Both things can be true at the same time.
Story: Ray Daniels’ comments, via the @IPOPmediaDOTcom clip. Background: The Breakfast Club’s Donkey of the Day segment (iHeart) and Urban Magazine’s coverage; Drink Champs appearance per episode coverage.
So what is it — does Charlamagne protect Jay-Z on The Breakfast Club, or is Ray just still in his feelings?
