Charlamagne Tha God
Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!Collection: Morning
We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we all think he needs. That's what keeps these stigmas about mental health and everything going - we act like it's a joke.Collection: Health
I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.Collection: Forgiveness
If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.
Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
I bet you my body is three-quarters Red Bull.
Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed - that love has to be reciprocated.
My thoughts on Eminem have always been that he is one of the greatest lyricists ever. I've never been a fan because I can't relate to a lot of his world views and experiences, but I acknowledge that he's one of the greatest MCs.
If I was a white rapper, the bar for me would be Eminem. Of course his white skin helped him excel to heights that a lot of other rappers couldn't, but he still was talented. People gravitated towards him because of his skills. He stood the test of time.
I felt like people who had a lost mindset or who occasionally did stupid things were having a 'donkey' moment, or some of them are permanent donkeys, so I just started calling them donkeys. So when I went to Philly to do my own morning show, that's when I first started doing 'Donkey of the Day.'
My father, Larry McKelvey, he was the man in Moncks Corner. He ran illegal nightclubs where everyone went, ran around in red leather pants, claimed he partied with Rick James. If you needed anything in Moncks Corner, you saw Larry McKelvey.
One day, I got beat up, and my glasses, which were crooked already, got shattered on the ground. That's when I said, 'Okay, enough.' I became like Batman. I decided to thug myself out, all the way.
You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.
I'm a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.
I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.
I feel and take in people's energy. Sometimes, I feel the pain of other people.
If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.
When I'm sitting around, I'm thinking about how I can make my next professional career move, but more than anything, I'm thinking about the meaning of life and how fleeting it is.
The majority of my problems stem from other people's issues, but when you're a leader or somebody that people look to for guidance or to be a shoulder to lean on, you got to be strong enough to hold all that weight.
Me and Kanye have a relationship - not as close as him and Trump, but we have a relationship.
Kanye West does not represent all black people.
I'm black, and I don't support Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form.
I just remember saying to myself, 'I want to be a super jock.' I don't want to be just some radio personality in some town somewhere doing the time and temperature and the latest song.
I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.
I feel like we're in the era now where politics is pop culture. Everybody has an opinion that's politically based. We see what the Trump administration has done, and I've never seen my culture this engaged in the political process.
The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.
America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'
People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.
I'm just a brother trying to figure it all out.
It's always cool when you get immortalized on records. I am just happy that I have gotten to the level where rappers who can actually rap say my name in records, regardless if it's a diss or not.
Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.
I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.
With the success of 'Black Privilege,' of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with the check, but I don't do things for money.
All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.
Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.
I'm a slightly obnoxious person.
I don't want to be the guy who's 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.
You have to grow and evolve and look towards the future.
Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.
I grew up in a rural area. Books are what helped me transcend my circumstances.
Contrary to popular belief, all I want to do is empower people.
Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.
Kanye is always going to be Kanye. He is always going to be outspoken. He's always going to say exactly how he feels.
I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.
I go to a therapist every week.
When I have anxiety attacks, I always think I'm having a heart attack.
I have had anxiety literally my whole life.
There's nothing like seeing your floor clear because you organized and cleared the space of all that clutter. That's how I feel when I go to my therapist.
I think black men especially should go to therapy and seek out mental help, because we need it. Even if you don't think you need it, we need it.