Why is Ari Melber doing all these music interviews?

[Trueblue Texan]

I guess I'm just an old political junkie...but MSNBC in the late afternoon/evening is where political junkies go for their daily fix. If we want to be entertained with musicians we'll turn on YouTube or MTV. I've gotten to be pretty annoyed with his political coverage as well.

[JohnSJ]

1. Because he thinks it makes him look hip.

[jimfields33]

6. I found today's rather interesting. I normally don't.

But it’s his show. Nobody has the right to tell him what to do with his own show. (Not saying you did. Just general statement).

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. He loves the rappers. Today he subjected

Andrew Weisman to this nonsense! It was a WTF moment for me

[Trueblue Texan]

12. And Andrew's comment...

"I don't do music after the 18th century." Andrew is a CLASSIC!

[bullimiami]

3. The "Beat". It's his thing.

Yeah it’s silly sometimes.

[YorkRd]

4. He also had an interview with Phoebe Bridgers

[Ocelot II]

5. He wants to be the Cool Dad.

He's like the suburban dad who tries to hang out out with his teenaged son's garage band and uses their slang when he talks to anybody under 40.

[doc03]

7. He can be very good but when he starts the Hip Hop stuff I

change channels. No matter what the subject he has some rap lyrics to quote. It embarrasses his guests too.

[ms liberty]

8. Because it's who he is - he grew up with the culture

I get it because mr liberty is a bit younger than I and he gets all Ari's references, so he explains them to me, lol. It's just a hair before my time, and I'm a true prog rocker anyway so it's kinda opposite most of my tastes to begin with. I'm cool with it, because the best of rap, hip-hop, etc. approaches a true art form, but it's just not my jams.
With that said, there are some works that I just LOVE, here are 2, because I'm always open to music:

Gil Scott Heron (technically considered to be jazz) with "The Revolution Wil Not Be Televised"

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And

Disposable Heroes of Hipophrisy with "Television - The Drug of the Nation"

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[Trueblue Texan]

13. oh, I love music too!

But MSNBC is not where I go for my music. It ain't MTV.

[Eko]

9. As a musician I think it awesome.

I dont want to live in a world where music and musicians arent news.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. I stopped watching Ari except when Neal Katyal is on

I used to DVR the show and watch it when the Chris Hayes show was on. Ari’s show does not really deal with legal issues now on the same level Ari used to.

[Earth-shine]

11. Yesterday, in the middle of an interview, he stopped the discussion just to make some hip hop reference.

He does this a lot. The conversation just came to a hard, cold stop. He makes his reference. It seems really cringy and awkward. The guest pretended to laugh. Slowly, the conversation picks up again.

And then I changed the channel to CNN. I can't stand Ari sometimes.

[Paladin]

14. He's a rotten interviewer.

Ari's the only MSNBC personality who continuously interrupts his guests to blurt out "I've only got___seconds left, but..." or "We're about out of time, but..."

And don't even get me started with his unending attempts at being a hip-hop poseur. MSNBC could do so much better.

[Earth-shine]

15. It does result in lost ratings. I am less likely to tune into his show because of these examples.

There's so much competition for my viewing time.

There are many liberal podcasters just waiting for me any time MSNBC disappoints.