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Charlamagne Tha God Defends Rihanna’s ‘Queendom’ After Paris Fashion Week Shade

Rihanna’s alleged Paris Fashion Week lateness caught some shade from EJ Johnson, and now Charlamagne is coming to her defense.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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You gotta be careful shading someone like Rihanna. This is the message Charlamagne Tha God is sending TV personality EJ Johnson after they criticized the music diva for being late to a Dior show during Paris Fashion Week.

During an October 2026 episode of The Brilliant Idiots, Charlamagne dropped some advice for EJ. Essentially, he wanted to make it clear that certain people are untouchable, and most of them are high-profile Black women in music.

“Now listen, there’s a lot of queens EJ stepping on. Like 99 percent of queens EJ stepping on,” the radio host........

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