believe in all kinds of positive ways, but i do think that when you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses that people have been going through, it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear. some of it justified, just misdirected. i think somebody like mr. trump is taking advantage of that. there are some people that are just stone cold racist, we know that. but there are a lot of people also who feel, and are to some degree or another, feel like they are on the losing end of the stick. there are a lot of people who rose to the bait, i would say, the encouragement of the kind of pr mastery of trump. trump made it into an us and them in black and white. there was no question that he had a self-consciousness of a past to whipping up resentment. and, on was a black president. toward the end of obama s presidency, i received an invitation to what was billed as a celebration of black music at the white house. there was bel biv
starts today. we love getting nightly news with lester holt backs appeared we love your work, and the diplomacy. indeed. have a good weekend, you, too. welcome to the beat. let me start with something serious. law enforcement sources still us that alvin bragg has received a formal death threat, through a letter that was a littled to him that set, quote, alvin, i m going to kill you, end quote. it contained a white powder. it s been deemed by authorities as nonhazardous. this is what s happening. we talked about last night why it s not a drill, why these threats don t work historically, but why donald trump, who is under investigation for abusing power, for inciting an insurrection, is now back at the same playbook. he is out online, using his plate form. talking about depth and destruction and posts violent imagery. the probe is part of a much larter legal storm. and we re going to report on these always. we have to understand he s moving from a position of extrem
technology. since mary had a little lamb you had to get it out, and now the streaming has been in some ways a real boon for getting more music out to more people at a lower cost. on the culture side that could be great. nobody has to buy it. new york times put it like this. de la soul s music is finally back. a bittersweet victory. they have the copyright owners which involved, quote, hundreds of contracts. um-hmm. how would you put it now we re at the end of all this? what happened and where are we now? i feel it s been an amazing victory. you know, we lp victory. one thing that i love about us and i feel has always been a personable people, whether it s a fan or a person who is a fan who happens to be a publisher.
is when they tried to say you re hippies. and yet it s also interesting because we re in this time now where people are saying, what m what does ite1 mean to be more fluid on those concepts, right? wejf always felt that in ter of when we were in the label, look, this music you re creating, how it s coming xd together, it really feels like this movement. and we were like,n■cool. áu$at s great. but that in turn with the press when it really picked up on it and became a marketing thing, that s how it really came toçó kill it off in the second album, which was de la soul is dead. we didn t want people to focus on the image. we wanted everyone to focus on the soul, the music and the ingredients of the music and not the imagery. and i mean, we took it to for u■ toó[■ be like being dead, it s e transitioning to another plain.
beschloff, historian. by the end of the hour, a very special interview, the first-time debut of the legendary surviving members of de la sol. de la sol. although have to believe it.s. as for the history, living history, when we return in just 60 seconds. ecwith an advisor o create your personalized plan. let s find the right investments for your goals. okay, great. j.p. morgan wealth management. the seats, gotta go!