2020 Dem Andrew Yang Slams The Knicks For Bad Sportsmanship The Beat With Ari Melber MSNBC

Time now for a special edition of Fall Back. I am joined by hip-hop executive producer and songwriter Jermaine Dupri. He's collaborated with all sorts of artists. Usher, Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, Kanye, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Grammy-winning artist. He worked with Mariah Carey on We Belong Together. His new documentary, Power, Influence, and Hip-Hop, The Remarkable Rise of So So Def, covers all of the hits. Most labels were focused on rap or just focused on R&B. He was able to do them both. Through So So Def, Don Chi Chi, Jermaine Dupri, I think that he is a major icon of our time. She's a rapper. He's a diva. He is. Devo. And for his first ever appearance on a Fall Back 2020 presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, tech entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2012, the Obama administration changed, I should say, selected him as a champion of change for his work training people in tech. Thanks to both of you for being here. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here, man. I love seeing the two of you together. Yeah. I love being here with you. The Ying and the Yang. That's right. I'm just trying to think. I guess that makes you the Yang. Yeah, I'm the Yang. I love it. Yeah, we're the Ying Yang twins. Ying Yang twins. And they call his supporters the Yang Gang, which is like gang gang. Yang Yang. Yang Gang. You got to go there. There's a Yang Gang rap. There are Yang Gang videos online. I believe. I want you to produce one. I love it. Andrew, who needs to fall back? Well, I think the New York Knicks need to fall back on so many levels. Oh my gosh. I've been a fan since I was a kid. And so the summer league Knicks skipped shaking hands with their opponents after they'd lost their third straight game. And I said, no way. You guys can't be displaying poor sportsmanship on top of losing the game, on top of the epic mismanagement of the team. I mean, it's like a team now composed of overpaid role players after they missed out on Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving and everyone else. So being a Knicks fan, it's never been harder. It's never been worse. Like, if you're going to be bad, you at least need to be good sports about it. You know what's funny about that is I'm from Atlanta. But I always hear New Yorkers say, I've been a Knicks fan my whole life. And I think that sometimes you've got to pull away in order for people to get their mind right. Yeah, you've got to end an abusive relationship. And that's what being a Knicks fan has been like for a hundred years. Jermaine, who needs to fall back? Arby's. I don't know what y'all are talking about. Y'all need to fall all the way back. What is, what is, what is, what is. A meat-based vegetable. Yeah, what is a meat-based vegetable? Arby's making waves because they're making carrots with meat. Yeah, that, it feels like they're trying to make fun of vegans. For real, it feels like they're just like, all this vegan talk and all these other restaurants, some of these plant-based. Yeah, let's do something that's different. I think it's a way to have meat as your main and then meat as your side. And then meat as your other side. It's just more ways to get meat on a plate. Well, also, if at a certain point, if this is a meat, if this is an Arby's meat carrot at a certain point, just get a burger. But that's what I'm saying. Are they trying to attract me? That's what I'm saying. I think they want me to come in there and say, I want a carrot. They're trying to trick you. Yeah, trick me to eating meat. Or maybe it's for husbands who want to seem like they're eating healthy to their wife. It's like, watch me eat these carrots. But then really, they're eating a steak. I'm not married. I wouldn't know. So my fallback is also a little bit consumption food-related, which is Starbucks has uncorked this tie-dye Frappuccino. Now, I don't actually partake in fraps. I'm more of a black coffee person. But basically, tie-dye is something that is just fun. It may be ugly fashion, but it's fun. And people are now hating on the tie-dye Frappuccino. And I'm telling them to fall back because you can have a tie-dye drink if you want, as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, I'm cool with tie-dye. What's wrong with it? It's like when you're a kid and you get one of them drinks off the little ice cream truck. Yeah, and the color, the rainbow is part of it. When you give my kids a choice of any ice cream, they just want rainbow sprinkles on that. It's just a color thing. People just like colors. Yeah, and how do you feel about tie-dye? I don't know if you have a policy on that. You know, I just couldn't pull it off as a kid. It's like I wore tie-dye, and people were like, why is the Asian guy wearing tie-dye? You know, it's like I'm like the last person who'd be able to pull off the hippie 60s thing. I just wore a tie-dye suit at the Essence Fest. I'm good with tie-dye. You wore tie-dye? Yeah, I had a whole jumper that I had tie-dye. And what does that say? Is that a 70s throwback? Or what does it say? I just like the way that, you know, it was a white jumper when we just tie-dye, so it had a whole bunch of colors all over it. Nice. I like it. What else is on your fallback list, Jermaine? The Patti LaBelle thing, right? They spelled LaBelle wrong when they gave her a shirt. When they were trying to honor her, yeah. And I have a question. Is it normal to capitalize the B in LaBelle? If it wasn't Patti LaBelle, would you capitalize the B? I don't know. Are you good at spelling, Andrew? Yeah, I was a bit of a nerd. I won Spelling Bees and whatnot. So is that a thing, to capitalize the B in LaBelle? That B should be capitalized. That's my expert opinion. Oh, OK. Well, because if you look at the French roots, like LaBelle, it's like the woman or the girl. Boom. So B, like the B. There it is. OK, the French root. All right, I'm glad we got you here. The kind of judgment we need in the White House. 100%. OK. Well, that's what I'm talking about. Jermaine Dupri, thanks for being here. Andrew Yang, thanks for being here.