Radio personality, comedian and Birmingham native Rickey Smiley visited “The Breakfast Club” morning show to promote his new book “Sideshow” where he ended a longstanding beef with host Charlamagne tha God.
The almost hour-long interview opened with an apology to Smiley from Charlamagne tha God.
“I saw Rickey a couple of weeks ago in New Orleans at the Inspire NOLA event, and told him something that I want to publicly say now, I want to publicly apologize to Rickey Smiley because several years ago, I gave Rickey Smiley, ‘Donkey of the Day,’ because a radio executive asked me to,” Charlamagne said. “And you didn’t deserve that, brother.”
“I appreciate that man. The first time, when you walked up on me, your energy, the love, and respect, it takes a big person. I knew it was all a part of the game,” said Smiley.
In 2017, Charlamagne gave Smiley “Donkey of the Day” for his son’s comments about Black women on the reality show “Rickey Smiley For Real.”
Rickey’s son Malik Smiley said, “Black females are not attractive to me. I look at them as my sisters, dap ‘em up, give ‘em a hug. But if it’s a different race, it’s like I’m attracted to you in that type of way.”
Rickey defended his son at the time and said the producers had written it in the script for the show.
In the “Donkey of the Day” segment, Charlamagne gave Malik Smiley a pass, but he blamed Rickey Smiley instead, saying, “He’s 15, he’s young, he really don’t know any better. But when you hear Rickey’s explanation, you get where the son gets the foolishness from. Rickey, you been in the business for a long time. You are the executive producer of your reality show show…I would hope. You have the power, you have final say so over your show. You can’t blame any producers or writers for your son’s feelings.”
The beef between Charlamagne and Smiley was fueled by competing for urban contemporary radio stations in the various markets as their respective shows grew in syndication.
However, in 2019, “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” moved to the urban adult contemporary category when radio legend Tom Joyner retired.
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