Hey, everyone who listens to the podcast. This is Ari, and I want to let you know about an exclusive

digital extra. This is a new interview that hasn't aired on the beat yet, so it is new and

exclusive to you, our podcast listeners. I talk to Roysta 5'9 about his childhood and growing up

with a parent who battled addiction, how he teamed up with Eminem and a lot of famous music

that even if you're not a rap fan, you might be familiar with.

And also broadly hip hop culture.

You can listen to this or you can skip ahead if you want to go past it because we have a whole other thing on this extra for you.

After I talk to Royce, stay tuned for a segment we did that looks at something that I don't think it's enough attention.

It's a job crisis

in the federal government, partly caused by the Trump administration. Donald Trump's struggling

to fill many key posts or keep people on the job. In fact, whether it surprises you or not,

it turns out he has a harder time keeping people working for him than past presidents in both

parties. So forget the best people. Sometimes in these key posts, there's no people. So both of these things we thought were important enough that we wanted to share it with you in our weekend podcast extra. Hope you enjoy it. And as always, give us a rating. If you think we deserve it, we'll take five stars or whatever you think is fair. And as always, thanks for supporting the beat with Ari Melbert.

I'm very excited to tell you I'm here right now with the famous rapper, Royce to 5-9. You probably

know his collaborations with Grammy-winning rapper Eminem. He's been working with for over a decade,

and his latest music video comes out for the song, Cocaine. How you doing? Nice to see you.

Appreciate you coming on the beat. Yeah, for sure. Thank you for having me. Let's start with Cocaine. How you doing? Nice to see you. Good, how you doing, sir? Appreciate you coming on the beat.

Yeah, for sure.

Thank you for having me.

Let's start with cocaine, popular song. Now the video comes out. For those of us who don't know how it works, how does it work? How do you decide which ones get a video? What are you saying with this song? Well, this song means everything to me. This is the most important song on the album.

It's actually a song about addiction.

It's about my addiction as well as my father's addiction.

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