see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
that was a big moment because i don t think the locs ever got to perform their own song on the grammys. they have been onstage with other artists but for them to finally be on stage performing such a classic song that the world knows and hip-hop, we re going to make it was stellar, and to be able to hold up my family flag, which is the rough rider flag, and represent all of the roughriders, my uncle dy, my aunt shivaughn, dmx, drag, eve, and the locs, that was a pivotal moment, although it was so short, it was straight to the point. this project has a lot of legends on it. it has the new school, and doing stuff for hip-hoff 50. we want to show some of the faces. nas, lil wayne, jada kiss, a shout out like we just discussed, but also, underground to some degree or more independent artists like jay electron caw, and the newschool,