Hey everyone listen to the podcast this is Aurem Elber and this is one of our

podcast extras you guys have told us in the comments and elsewhere that you kind

of like it sometimes when we share stuff beyond the nightly show and as you can

tell because I'm addressing you directly that's what this is looking at

music justice and a whole lot more including change of foot at the iconic

Grammys just like the Oscars it's a award show that people sometimes say they

don't care about or artists say they don't need but it carries a lot of weight and

prestige and has been under pressure for having an academy at times and voters

at times that are completely out of sync with America and the music industry

well Harvey Mason Jr says he's changing that he is the newer leader of the

Grammys and he has a big background in music that you're gonna hear and we

have this extended discussion coming up so this is a whole longer conversation

we had that goes in-depth for our pod goes well beyond sometimes the time constraints

of TV and I want to share that with you after that you're gonna hear a breakdown

I did of a song that's up for Grammy at the new Grammys this weekend and that

is a God did that sort of posse cut track with DJ college Jay Z and more and a

lot of you reached out who listened to the pod about the breakdown I did so you're

gonna hear that it explores what Jay Z was saying in that song about his

trajectory the arbitrariness of the American drug war racism and a whole lot more

so that's coming up and then after that we have something really special which

I hope you check out if you keep listening and that's a conversation I got to

have you know one of the cool and interesting parts of this job sometimes I

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