IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
  • UP NEXT

    Trump's coup crisis boils over as GOP's 'no more lies vote' ensnares 'big lie' Trump: Melber report

    12:01
  • Trump's RICO D.A. on offense with 4 convictions, but defense lawyers argue 2024 win would pause case

    07:54
  • 'F*** Yourself': Elon Musk & MAGA's 'X Plan' go up in flames at bizarre, dumpster fire finance talk

    07:33
  • Trump Coup bombshell: Secret texts tie indicted plotter to Congress, as March trial looms

    12:09
  • MAGA 'suicide'? Yuval Noah Harari on conservatives losing, conspiracies, AI, religion & history

    01:07:49
  • Top Democrat warns of rising Anti-Semitism in America in 2023

    04:36
  • Prison fears mount as Jack Smith wins coup subpoena clash

    12:02
  • Indicted Trump spawns copycats: WH vet on fighting 'MAGA playbook' in U.S. & abroad

    08:24
  • Trump’s trial nightmare: Jack Smith on offense with Pence testimony 

    10:04
  • ‘Twisted logic’: Katyal shreds Trump as fraud receipts haunt him in trial

    08:13
  • 'No Guardrails': Experts sound alarm about Trump’s plot for ‘radical’ second term

    07:34
  • Exposed: New audio reveals Speaker Mike Johnson’s controversial views

    07:03
  • Prison fears: See D.A. who could lock up Trump make rare appearance in RICO court

    03:34
  • 'Who Killed JFK?' Rob Reiner says he solved assassination

    03:25
  • Stopping 'dictator' Trump is a choice: Rob Reiner lays it out on MSNBC

    08:54
  • 'The trenches teach survival': Ari Melber and Lil Durk on music & culture (MSNBC Segment)

    07:57
  • Jail for threats? In Trump case, RICO lawyer says real attacks land defendants behind bars, not 'gagged'

    07:41
  • Gagged? Trump on defense as Jack Smith takes tough gag order to powerful court

    12:10
  • Obama warns big tech about lies amid outcry over Musk's 'antisemitism' & racist 'replacement' theory

    08:51
  • ‘Goofy’ Trump doesn’t get Chicago: Lil Durk on 'Trenches,' Drake & Morgan Wallen with Ari Melber

    32:13

Woke is the ‘new Black’: Erykah Badu on music, MAGA, evolving, real hip hop and ‘A.I. ancestors’

49:53

Top Republicans are attacking what they call “woke” politics, and even passing laws designed to “stop” a supposed woke agenda. The singer who first brought that concept to the culture, in “Master Teacher,” Erykah Badu, reflects on social justice, culture and “woke politics” today – one of several topics the four-time Grammy winner tackles in this extended discussion with MSNBC anchor and music obsessive Ari Melber. Badu discusses her singing, deep links to hip hop, personal evolution, spirituality and approach to the music industry and business in general, including her new cannabis line with “Cookies.” She also reacts to earlier moments and videos from her career, and engages with an “assessment” of her work that an artificial intelligence chat bot generated by drawing on public writings about her music and its message. This in-depth discussion is the newest installment of “Mavericks with Ari Melber,” a series of interviews with artists, musicians and cultural icons (msnbc.com/mavericks)