My, how times have changed. I see hustling, i see killing. Thats what i rap about. Its a tough time to grow up in, and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people relate to it. That is a platinum record. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. The honeymoon is over. Now were getting down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china , occasionally her teeth, and hypnotizes your children. But what you may want to note is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the Music Business in this country. Mtv makes the hits. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, youre getting a lot of hairbands. Youve got poison, rat, warrants. A lot of hairspray going on. There was a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. Its not really deep music
what is your view? is it the end of humanity or a bit more of a benign force? well, it could be somewhere in between, i would say. i mean, ithink, like a lot of people, so i ve toyed around with like the chat bots and things, and things like that, chatgpt. we d actually, we d wrapped on this latest series of black mirror and then, and then the next month chatg pt came out. one of our episodes is quite timely. there s a sort of ai generated imagery thing going on in one of our episodes. but i toyed around with chatgpt and you sort of type in like, come up with a black mirror storyline, or something like that or, say something in the style of philomena cunk, or something like that, and it will do, it will spit out something that at first glance you get a kind of sudden spike of dread and think, that s it, i m out of a job, this thing has replaced me, because it looks convincing. but that s really. where we re at at the moment, that s really what it s doing, it s just sort
what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more j
But when you think of d. C. , you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right . Like washington, jefferson, lincoln. Well, guess what. Latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latintinged music] in fact, Latinx Heroes Have fought in every war for the United States for centuries. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. American forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by A Young Venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. And then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of them were mexicanamerican, and that was only 13 years after the mexicanamerican war. Now wheres the monument for that . Huh . Huh . Huh . Now, today, nearly 20 of the u. S. Population is latin, and our numbers are growing. Our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2 of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do
well you can tell by the way i use my walk you may look the other way ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive how did you people get back here. come on, come on. get him out of here. thank you very much. good evening to all of you. living for my life everything a man could want to do i could never see tomorrow no one said a word about the sorrow how can you stop the rain from falling down how can you stop the sun from shining what makes the world go around mend my broken heart and let me [ cheers and applause ] i am beginning to recognize the fact that nothing is true. nothing. it s all down to perception. my immediate family is gone. but that s life. it s the same thing with every family, that someone will end up in the end. and this time in life, i have fantastic memories. but everybody s memory is different. so, they re just my memories, you know? i know that maw rhymaurice and robin would have had a different kind of memory