Charlamagne Tha God debuted his new weekly late-night talk show “Tha God’s Honest Truth” on Sept. 17 which airs Fridays on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. He also revealed in the interview that he created his alias to protect Lenard Larry McKelvey, which is his real name.
“I created the character Charlamagne when I was around 17 or 18 in high school in South Carolina. I was studying the five-percent teachings of Islam, so that’s where Tha God came from – the Black man of God. But just reading the history book about Charlemagne, who was an emperor that led the Carolingian dynasty – he went about spreading religion and education. His name was French for Charles the Great. I used to call myself Charlie Chronic. That was my alias. That character was created to protect Lenard,” he concluded.
