Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari, and we have a podcast exclusive for you. You guys have said you like sometimes when we do the extra interviews. This didn't air on the show, but I think it's actually really interesting. My discussion with an up-and-coming rapper, T. Grizzly, 24 years old, coming out of Detroit. We talk in this discussion you're about to hear about why he thinks fans are better than Grammys. His response to the Drake Grammy Award presentation,

where you may remember he sort of got tuned out.

And we get into MLK and a bunch of other stuff.

T. Grizzly, if you haven't heard of him, is very talented.

He also has a very interesting life story.

His father was tragically murdered.

His mother is doing a 20-year-plus prison sentence. And he talks in this interview, and we talked also on an event this week about how that's affected his inspiration, his approach to music, and how he lives life every day, quite frankly. So I would tell you, I think this is a worthwhile listen, and that's why we're putting it first in the podcast extra. Now, after that, if you want to go back to some more of the news and politics stuff, we had a big week on the beat, including breaking an exclusive story about the House Oversight Committee, now basically asking a Fox News reporter to dish on what she knew about the Stormy Daniels issues during the campaign. That's a big deal, as you may have heard, because she has an NDA, a lot of talk about NDAs lately. She has her own NDA with Fox News and otherwise can't talk about it. Her lawyer told us on the show that if she got this request, then she could talk about it. And that was about Monday. By Thursday, the request came through in response to that reporting, and we reported that out. What you're going to hear here is the history of how that story started how it developed how it led to the committee's

request and what comes next all of that in a series of segments after the discussion with t grizzly

thanks as always for listening to the beat with ari melbourne this is the beat with ari melbourne

and i'm joined now by Detroit rapper and producer

T. Grizzly. How you doing? I'm good. What's going on? What's up, man? You having a nice time in New York? Yeah, so far, so good. You look very bright. Thank you. Before we get into everything else, I got to ask, like, what are these mean? What's the big open mouth one? So the big open mouth one, And this is like me.

That's you.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's the grizzly.

T. Grizzly.

All, they'll push it on this. Open mouth one. So the big open mouth one, this is like me. That's you?

Yeah.

Okay, that's the grizzly. All right, they'll push in on this. Let's, we're going to get in tight. No. Is this bust down or what would we call this? I'm always learning eventually. That's bust down. That's bused down. All the way bust down. 3D. That's big. And the other one?

This is Grizzly Gang.

No, that's my label. This is my label.

That's the label. And what's 44? Grizzly Games, what they stand for. Okay. Well, as you know, we got to hang out a little bit yesterday at this event, and now you're on the beat, which I love. We'll get into a bunch of stuff, but let's start with what's inspiring you as you make your music. You would tell me a little bit about everything you've been through with your family. Yeah, what inspired me is the way I live, stuff I see, stuff I've been through and still go through. You know, if I'm just sitting in the house with nothing going on, I can't make music. I gotta go out there and talk to people. I got to experience stuff. So now when I leave here, I can rap about this experience. You can rap about being on the news? Yeah. Well, when you say that, it's interesting, because sometimes people say, oh, I'm too busy, I'm overloaded, I just want to chill, but you're saying if it's too chill, too chill boring and that doesn't give you any inspiration. Yeah, I have to make time for my craft because that's what got me here in the first place. Yeah. You know, anything that I'm busy doing is because of it all started from the foundation, so I always got to spend time with it. Who do you think is the best in the rap game right now?

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