Charlamagne tha God
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811 appearances
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7 series
first heard Jan 2024
last heard 21 Jun
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Ooh, maybe that's what it is. I want people to hear this conversation today and immediately walk away and say, you know what? I need to go be of service. I need to answer that call. that's going on in my spirit right now that's telling me to go out there and just go do something. Do something for myself, but more importantly, go do something for somebody else. Go be of service.
That's what I want people to learn from this conversation. How to be of service.
You know, right now I'm a multimedia personality from, you know, radio to television, the books, the podcast, like you said, but I come from extreme humble beginnings. I was born in South Carolina, raised on a dirt road, grew up in a single wide trailer. You know, mom was a school teacher, an English teacher who kept the book in my face.
My dad, you know, did construction, but, you know, he had his own background. issues with mental health and, you know, run-ins with the law and, you know, drug addiction and substance abuse. But, you know, the one thing that we always had was love. And they always, especially my dad, I always say my dad raised me out of fear. And not love. What does that mean?
He didn't want me to end up making the same mistakes that he made. And he would always tell me that if I didn't change my lifestyle, especially when I started really getting in trouble in the street, that I was going to end up in jail, dead, or broke sitting under a tree. So that was literally his mentality. He didn't want his oldest son to end up in jail, dead, or broke sitting under a tree.
So he really used to be on me, but he would discipline me for things he didn't necessarily teach me.
I remember being in therapy. The first real breakthrough I had in therapy is realizing that. Like, I'll give you an example, right? Like, I remember one time I had just got my license. And so I'm following him. He was like, yo, follow me as I'm driving in the car. Just follow me, all right? So I'm following him. Mind you, I'm a 16-year-old kid. I'm following him. He's driving.
So he's driving down Gilead Road in North Carolina. I'm following him. When you're driving down Gilead Road, you veer off into a highway called Highway 52. So there's a stop sign. He doesn't stop at the stop sign. He just goes through on the highway. So what do you think I do? I just go through on the highway. So then he pulls over. So I pull over behind him. He gets out the car, road winds down.
He smacks the shit out of me. tells me to pay attention. I didn't see that stop sign. And I'm like, you didn't see the stop sign? I didn't say that to him. I'm like, you didn't see the stop sign? But that's my point. He would discipline me for things that he never taught me. So yeah, he raised me very hard. I always said it was out of fear and not love. Just it was the fear that I would end up
you know, making a lot of the same mistakes that he made. But we'll say one thing you do got to learn about your kids is that your kids are going to live their life regardless. No matter how much you try to hold on to them, no matter how, you know, much you try to discipline them, they're going to still live their life regardless. And guess what? You got to let them. You got to let them.
When I was in night school, because I got kicked out of two high schools, so I was in night school.
probably the same age, like 17, maybe 18. I'm not sure. So I graduated from night school in 1998. I'm sitting in night school. And at the time I used to call myself Charlie Chronic because, and you know, it sounds so stupid now when I'm old, but it's like, you know, but we used to have a crew called the Infamous Buddha Head. So all of us took names of marijuana.
So you had like Mikey Marijuana, Ichabodism, and I was Charlie Chronic, right? Bobby Buddha, like that was our names. And I used to always say my name was Charles because when I used to sell crack, I would wear a hoodie, give this alias because I didn't want the guys and women who were buying crack for me to go back and tell my parents. I'm from a small town.
So, you know, everybody's judgmental. Even though you're buying it from me, you still go tell my parents. And so I'm reading in a history book about Charlemagne. And Charlemagne, it says Charlemagne is French for Charles the Great. And he was a Roman emperor who went around spreading religion and education. And I literally was like, that's a cool name.
I'm going to start calling myself Charlemagne. And, you know, the God comes from the 5% teachings. And the 5% teachings, they say God is a Greek word derived from the Aramaic words, which means wisdom, strength, and beauty. So I'm like, I'm going to start calling myself Charlemagne the God. Which really didn't make no sense because Charlemagne is French for Charles the Great.
So it's like Charles the Great the God. But guess what? I was 19 years old smoking a lot of weed. So it didn't really have to make sense. It just looked cool. And I always said that's going to look really good on a marquee one day.
I said that's going to look really good on the cover of a book one day.
Absolutely.
You can either submit your will to the God in you or you can submit your will to the devil in you. And, you know, God is in each and every one of us. It says in Genesis chapter one, verse 26, says God created man in his image according to his likeness. And I feel like, you know, if you keep that mindset, it'll at least give you something to constantly strive to.
It'll give you something to constantly look towards and know that you have that, you know, that inner being within you, like knowing that you're really a spiritual being living a human existence. And I mean, I've always literally tried to move like that.
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