From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Dream Hampton has been kind of bored with hip hop for years.

It resonated with her when she was in her 20s, but her love faded with the passage of time.

Still, Hampton felt compelled to executive produce the Netflix documentary series, Ladies First.

I didn't want to have this kind of sanitized version of a music and a genre that had never

been clean. I didn't want it to all of a sudden get shiny in its museum phase.

Dreamhampton talks to Eric Degans about giving the ladies the spotlight they deserve

and why she didn't hesitate to call out misogynists by name in the documentary series.

But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my companion in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So we're going to just

touch on the strike. And we're in one of those moments where we are speaking as things are happening.

Literally, as we speak, the heads of the studios, or at least most of them, Bob Iger, Donna Langley,

David Zasloff, Ted Sarandos, are meeting with Writers Guild

negotiators. And the fact that it didn't blow up right away, like they met before we are now

speaking, we will take as a somewhat encouraging sign. I'm told a CNBC report that this thing

is going to be wrapped up end of day as we are speaking again is a little premature,

but everybody, of course, hopes that we will get to a fair resolution for all parties

and that everyone in the industry can flourish. Let me pivot to another news item. Rupert Murdoch

has announced that he is stepping down. He's 92 years old. This guy had a long

and storied career. A lot of the story is not very positive from union busting in London when he

was running the newspapers there to the more recent problems that they've had. I'm going to reference,

of course, the Dominion lawsuit,

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