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Hear Jay-Z talk to Ari about Beat report on “God Did” and the drug war

The Beat with Ari Melber

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How Many Billionaires Can Come?

Roxanne Jones: Poem by rapper jay is about how he went from poverty to a billion. She says it's also a play on how he makes money off records, which are now clean since he left the street life. Jones: It illustrates how hundreds of thousands of others are locked up for non violent drug offenses. The data shows the drug war is discriminatory, that entire categories of drugs can be arbitrarily banned or allowed, often depending on who is really using them., she writes.

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