that s coming up. also, i have a break you how, with everything we have been through and everything we ve learned should deal with a proven liar and now someone liable for defamation and sexual abuse, donald trump. how do we deal with him? how do we cover interviews and town halls? we re not against interviews. i have a breakdown on that later. what donald trump said on his live and lengthy appearance on cnn last night is our top story. we ll get to that later. the top story tonight is the tapes. george santos back in washington voting on an unemployment fraud bill, which is wild considering that is part of what he s been indicted for. santos arraigned on 13 separate federal charges wire fraud, money laundering, abusing public funds. doj claiming santos spent money he claimed was for his campaign but he basically grifted, pocketing it according to the filing for personal expenses, luxury designer clothing, credit card payments for his own personal use. these charges come
effect my music has had. it was difficult to wrap about mental health, anxiety, anime, video games. it wasn t the cool thing to do, and now it s normal. there was a time i was like, i can t stand this song, because i m doing this song every day about killing yourself. i m like, this is deep. and also i m like, i m the 1-8 hundred guy. i m like, damn it. i just want 24 carat gold. i want to be bruno mars. then i woke up one day and i m like, dude, what honored to be this with amazing people behind the camera, in front of the camera, and i m known as the mental health advocate, like, bro, congress wrote me a letter thanking me, showing that statistically, it s been proven that my song has saved lives. please, if i m only ever remembered for that, then let s do that. i m happy. and being biracial, his joke
later they get that. of course at the time strange fruit and a woman of color, the label wouldn t even put out that billie holiday song. hurricane , dylan had white friends who are mad. they want rock n roll. we don t want to be bogged down by this. when you were doing this for a lot of people it was and certainly not hip-hop, it was not popular, so you were cutting up against it in a way that at the time had all this pushback. i m curious how you you already sound like you stand by it of course, but how it feels over time, because the whole point is it s difficult. if it were embraced and easy it wouldn t have been a breakthrough anthem. it s really cool. like, i m really seeing especially just me stepping out of the bs of the internet and literally being like, this exists. that s fine. i m not going to partake in this it lets me see what an
not fitting in, and that s okay. that is okay. that s some of the new interview. mental health has become a pretty common topic these days especially after covid and lockdowns, but it wasn t cool when logic dropped an entire song about mental health and suicide risk six years ago. the title, you may have heard about it, was the number for the suicide prevention hot line at the time which is now 988. here s a bit of that song. i don t want to be alive i been praying for somebody to save me no one s heroic in my life i know it, i m hurting deep down but can t show it industry insiders didn t view that downer song as any kind of hit. they were wrong. like many anthems about tough topics the, song resonated deeply, especially with young people. we can tell you now it went five times platinum. it surpassed a billion streams on spotify for that one song. that is more than the top single
off taylor swift s new album. you can compare it that way. that song that logic did operated as a viral psa, and that s a factual thing i can tell you on the news. it led more people to use that hot line, a study found the song and listening to it actually correlated with an increase in calls that can save lives. it s an anthem for today s youth, much the way voices have done similar work on big issues for other generations. i brought that up with logic and, this is part of that conversation. there is a hue, a glow, a nostalgia to the really old protest anthems. because they ve aged and been celebrated and to some degree, not always, but somewhat embraced by the establishment. so if you look at strange fruit or bob dylan hurricane. i was going say dylan. were you?