Hey everyone listening to our podcast. This is Ari Melbur, and we posted some exclusive content recently, the extended interview that I had with Sy Hirsch, and we read what you guys write in, and especially what you guys comment on iTunes, and you said you wanted more. So we're doing more. What you're about to hear is a longer political discussion that I had with the hot 97 DJs. They were in for Fallback Friday, but we went deeper

on Trump, on NFL protests, on racism. It's DJs Ebro Darden, Peter Rosenberg, and Laura

Stiles. As you may recall, they are really interesting people. They're involved in music, but also

culture. And we really were able to dig in deep. We also talked criminal justice reform and how

they're viewing the Trump era.

Always interesting to get perspectives from people who are not just solely inside the news media

or the political and legal space.

So I hope you'll check this out.

And please do write us a comment letting know what you think of the podcast extras or the podcast

in general.

Give us a star rating.

We prefer five stars to be honest, but obviously you've got to speak your heart when you go on there. But we do want you to rate the show. We do want you to let us know what else you want to hear. And I'll tell you, coming from me, if I read enough comments about something that you want, we will try to get it up, even the extra exclusive stuff on the podcast. As always, thank you for listening and watching MSNBC's The Beat.

I am joined by the radio hosts from Hot 97, number one hip-hop radio in New York.

Yes.

Ebro, Rosenberg, Stiles with a Z.

Thank you.

Yeah, we'll get it right.

And what we want to do is put aside a little extra time, because I get excited when people of your caliber are here so we can talk a little bit more broadly, not just news of day, about what's going on in hip-hop.

I want to start with the picture to end all pictures.

Kim Kardashian, there you see it, with the president, the ultimate hip-hop-adjacent celebrity moment.

You look at this and then the backdrop of Kanye West.

I'd like to, can we not, I love Kanye's wife Kim, right? I think she's a nice person. She's great to look at. And what she's recently done with Alice Johnson, I think is great work.

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