Hey everyone, this is Ari Melbaugh with a very special podcast extra.

Call it the JZ edition or Hov did or Prohibition Policies.

And I hope the audio sounds okay to you guys.

I'm personally recording this for you in basically a voice note from the mountains

where I took a couple days off before going back to work on Labor Day.

And if you're hearing this before Labor Day, we're going to do a very special two hours

of the beat.

And if you're hearing this later, I hope you still listen because this is one of the most

exciting podcast extras I've ever recorded for you.

I know that you guys like sometimes when we do the audio and I do extra stuff.

So what you're about to hear is something that is unlike anything we've ever done on the beat or anything that's ever happened in my life.

And it was really personally meaningful to me and you're going to hear some of my personal remarks exactly like top of the head when it first happened.

But to catch everyone up from this jump in case you're busy and you don't know anything that I'm referring to,

it is going to begin with this. What you're about to hear don't know anything that I'm referring to. It is going to begin with

this, what you're about to hear begins with a piece we did on the show. And that is my new breakdown

of a very deep, trenchant, interesting verse from Jay-Z that just dropped over the last week

on DJ Khalid's new album, and it's the title

track God did, and Jay-Z goes off way more than 16 bars with a full, philosophical, deep

rendering of his life in the context of the prohibition policies and the often racist war on drugs in America. So you're going to hear that as we did it on air. That runs about 15 minutes. It has Jay-Z. It has Barack Obama. It has Eric Holder. I hope you give it a listen. If you've already heard it or you want to skip ahead for any reason, after that is the podcast Extra extra what we're releasing after that in this episode

is unlike anything we've ever done and it's not anywhere else it wasn't it didn't air on tv but you're

going to hear j z talk about this piece we did on the beat so that's j z talking directly to me and

others dj calid and others who were in the room it was originally recorded recorded online on a Twitter spaces thing, but it was live, it was unexpected.

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