Lenard Larry McKelvey is better known professionally as Charlamagne tha God. He is an American radio presenter, television personality, and best selling author. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
He is perhaps best known as a co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy and Angela Yee, as the founder of the Black Effect Podcast Network, and was featured on Guy Code, Guy Court and Girl Code. He was also a VJ for The Week in Jams with DJ Envy and Sofi Green. In 2015, Charlamagne began hosting the short-lived MTV2 show Uncommon Sense. He was previously on The Wendy Williams Experience with Wendy Williams on VH1. In the Shock jock tradition, one of Charlamagne’s personal mantras is “bite my tongue for no one.”