As bipartisan calls to reform the US “war on drugs” mount, rapper and business mogul Jay-Z hits back at “draconian” drug laws in a hit new song. In this excerpted MSNBC special report, Ari Melber delves into the data showing how drug enforcement is applied unfairly, shifting opinions on legalization, plus Jay-Z’s upscale marijuana company and new music addressing the drug crisis in America.
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The poem/verse here is a deep history lesson, and prohibition policy analysis, told through real lives and factual achievements across several fields…. How many will understand the poetry is as mind-blowing as the accomplishments, against the odds?
Update: After we aired this report, Jay-Z and Lebron posted about it … Jay sharing the segment and writing:
“My only goal is to make the real ‘ones’ feel seen , forgive me that’s my passion talking ….. haa”
(8/31/2022)
Can we trade Ari for Jason Whitlock? Racial Draft
Has to be one of the best segments Ive seen in a while , what a break-down.
Wow! Thank you for always speaking truth to the America who don’t understand the art of hip hop ! Your truly our voice to whites who don’t understand and excluded to black America
Drugs are here to stay as long as there is a demand. It's sad but the truth.
I didn’t need him to break down this verse. But I get why some casuals needed this.
BEAUTIFUL.
Mann are they really acknowledging that draconians are running the government 😳😳
I hope they keep him around….The people upstairs are like WTF
🤔🔥🔥🔥
Omg yessssss the break down 2 white people from a guy who happens 2 be white. Love it!!!
We are 62 years old now Louis Farrakhan, the corruption situations is worst.
Tired of the glorification of drug dealers turned businessmen, who built their wealth by poisening their own communities.
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anyone else tempted to subscribe to MSNBC after this ? 🥵🫀🔥
no one like Hov…man’s got msnbc breaking down his bars 😂
Thank you 🙋🏿♂️✊🏿🤴🏿♿️
Had no choice than to subscribe after watching this awesome breakdown. Weldon, history is watching..
Louis Farrakhan went in
He was correct about what he spoke about nothing else matters so-called JEW!
They linked Farrakhan and Jay-Z together. That's laughable let's talk about Joe Biden and his son Hunter biting addicted to crack cocaine the very drug that Joe Biden in the early 90s gave away life sentences for one crack rock to minority people black and brown Latino and brown with family so that's why he did it…
WOW!
This was one of the best commentaries I’ve ever heard