Episode 517: "Stand For Life with Elizabeth Graham and Benjamin Watson"
Southside Rabbi
KB and Ameen Hudson
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | what's going on family here we are yet again for another episode of southside |
| 0:19.5 | rabbi and boy do we have one for you today okay I have to start by saying in 2014 |
| 0:29.2 | there was uh the annual Grammy Awards where we watched Maclamore yeah take album of the year |
| 0:39.7 | it was an injustice from Kendrick Lamar and the entire music industry was up in a fit they were |
| 0:50.8 | totally devastated by the injustice that what was called perhaps one of the greatest albums |
| 0:57.7 | of all time lost to Maclamore's project about thrift stores Maclamore was so moved by the |
| 1:09.3 | injustice that he shot Kendrick Lamar text message that night posted on Instagram saying you were |
| 1:16.6 | robbed I'm giving you this Grammy to what Kendrick said I don't want it which is in the same |
| 1:22.5 | spirit of of Eminem who said back in 20 uh the top of the 2000s uh that he felt is though the |
| 1:30.6 | Grammys was losing credibility because there were moments where albums should have been given to |
| 1:37.4 | hip-hop legends like Jay Zee or Kanye West but it would go to folks who were |
| 1:43.1 | tantamount to nilly vanilla nilly vanilla what all of that says to us is that every year a |
| 1:51.8 | Grammy goes out to someone who really shouldn't have it or is overlooking who should have it right it |
| 1:58.6 | brings question uh it brings challenge to the organization itself brothers and sisters I am in a |
| 2:05.8 | similar dilemma today because every year that goes by that our next two guests do not receive Nobel |
| 2:14.2 | peace prizes MacArthur genius awards MacArthur genius awards every year that goes by that they don't |
| 2:24.2 | they don't even act or sing or rap or perform but they don't have Emmys and I'm bothered by it |
| 2:30.6 | it brings into question the entire organization how can you have a world where a man and a woman |
| 2:38.1 | like this just walk around freely with no accolades with people giving them the places where |
| 2:44.7 | accolades are distributed at the highest level not honoring them it makes me question the entire institution |
| 2:51.8 | I mean the dream mean machine Hudson who are these people first of all please talk to them |
| 2:56.9 | talk to the people in these people I have to talk to the people first of all I don't know what to |
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