{"id":370224,"date":"2026-10-11T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:38:59","slug":"charlamagne-tells-ej-johnson-to-leave-rihanna-alone-theres-levels-to-this-queen-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370224\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlamagne Tells EJ Johnson to Leave Rihanna Alone: ‘There’s Levels to This Queen Stuff’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlamagne tha God<\/a> has some advice for EJ Johnson<\/a> following his recent back-and-forth with Rihanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the latest episode of The Brilliant Idiots podcast with Andrew Schulz, Charlamagne weighed in on the tension between the fashion personality and the nine-time Grammy winner following their appearances at Paris Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

While Charlamagne made it clear he has love for Johnson, he suggested that taking shots at Rihanna might not be the smartest move.<\/p>\n

“EJ, now EJ, you know I love you, but you got to know your limitations,” Charlamagne said. “There’s certain thrones you can’t throw rocks at, EJ, and Rihanna’s one of them.”<\/p>\n

The radio personality continued by explaining why he believes Rihanna occupies a different level of celebrity status, especially when it comes to fashion and pop culture.<\/p>\n

“There’s levels to this queen stuff,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Now listen, there’s a lot of queens EJ stepping on. Like I like 99% of queens EJ stepping on. But it’s that 1% that EJ just not going to ever be able to touch. Rihanna’s one of them. Beyonce’s one of them.”<\/p>\n

Charlamagne added, “The party don’t start till Rihanna walks in.”<\/p>\n

The comments come after Johnson, the son of NBA legend Magic Johnson, appeared to criticize Rihanna during his Paris Fashion Week coverage.<\/p>\n

In a vlog about the Dior show, Johnson praised the presentation but complained that the event was reportedly delayed because of Rihanna’s arrival.<\/p>\n

“It did start an hour late because Rihanna was late, and you know, like, we didn’t care to wait for her,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Rihanna seemingly responded on Oct. 2 after The Hollywood Fix shared footage of Johnson waiting outside a Paris hotel while photographers called for staff to let him inside. The singer dropped a one-word comment beneath the video: “damn.”<\/p>\n

Johnson has developed a reputation for giving unfiltered opinions on celebrity fashion. Earlier this year, he criticized several looks from the Met Gala, calling the event a “graveyard” and describing some outfits as “awful on awful and awful.”<\/p>\n

Among the celebrities he previously criticized were Rihanna, Beyonc\u00e9 and Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlamagne tha God has some advice for EJ Johnson following his recent back-and-forth with Rihanna. During the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-370224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}