Ayman called Ari out!! Epic, "six minutes until the first rap reference." Give it a rest Ari.

[Comfortably_Numb]

[maptap22]

1. Where has Nicole Wallace been?

I don’t like the show without her.

[whathehell]

3. She's probably on vacation..

There are a number of regular MSNBC hosts who are "off" this week..Katy Tur is another one. and Chris Hayes seems to have been gone for at least two, possibly three weeks..He seems to take a lot of time off.

[Doc Sportello]

4. Paternity leave n/t

[barbaraann]

2. I do not like rap but I respect Ari's love of it.

If I remember correctly, he said that rap woke him up to social injustice.

[Talitha]

5. I turned it off as soon as Ari made the reference.

And missed what Ayman said - hopefully he told Ari to knock it off.

TBH, I was absolutely thrilled when Ari got his own show but was quickly turned off because of that nonsense. I do not care for rap in the least, so Ari lost me as a daily viewer very quickly.

As far as I'm concerned, he can do what he wants on his own show. But please Ari, don't do it when you're a guest panelist. If you think it makes you look cool, you're wrong.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Same here

Rap is ok even though I'm not much of a fan but it confused me when Ari would have all these rappers on his show.

[Celerity]

7. I like Ari's hip hop references.

[stuck in the middle]

8. Uh-oh!

ChocQuibTown - De Donde Vengo Yo (Official Music Video)

[Celerity]

9. Verraco - Boiler Room Medellin: TraTraTrax

[stuck in the middle]

10. Ha!

We passed thru Medellin on our way to Cartagena just last week. (It was a two day drive.)

LA TIERRA PROMETIDA, CARLOS VIVES, CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA, TURISMO

The last 3 minutes of this is a Bambuco Patiano / Hip-Hop fusion that a university student made with Las Cantaoras del Patia.

BAMBUCO PATIANO 2010

[Maru Kitteh]

11. I get tired of him straining to work lyrics into the show. It's juvenile.

I've never been able to take him seriously about anything so I don't watch or listen to him.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

12. I don't know much about rap music as a genre

Which is why I don't get the rap references he makes.

But I don't have a problem that he's into it, and I don't really have a problem with the genre itself. I've liked my share of rap songs, after all. One of my favorites:

People still trashing rap/hip hop after it's been around more than 40 years is like the people who still talk trash about rock music. Hatred of it doesn't change that it's here to stay, because it's an art form that speaks certain truths, like all real art.