ten of the finest tracks, you've collaborated with everyone from kendrick lamar.at are you trying to do in the name? >> i wanted to come back into the music scene with a body of work that actually wasn't compromisincompromising the crai could have came and went straight to the penthouse with a big crossover song. i wanted to start back to hi origins of where people know me and that's authentic hip-hop. i didn't want to put no big record that might be top 40 on the record on this particular album, i wanted to give people something that was quality and that the artist delivered at their maximum capacity. the name "poison" became because, in life, we have to face our poisons in order to poise on. >> trevor: that's deep. 33 minutes of the finest music ever. thanks for being on the show. congratulations on everything, man. "poison" is available now. swizz beatz! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ music playing ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪

you've worked with people like kendrick lamar and dr. drey.stice work. why is this important to you? >> it's hugely important to me. it affected my family, affected my mom. my pops did 14 years. there's a lot of people in prison doing years for something they shouldn't be doing, and there's no attention being put on the topic. so anything i can do to help as a musician, even if it's just offering my time, playing a show, i'm down for it. >> and you've got success now. you're working with some of the biggest acts. you were homeless for a time. how did that affect you? >> it just gave me like a story. it's dope that something didn't happen super overnight for me. honestly i feel the mudssic mor people that have more of a story. >> maxine waters has a bill that would give more funding to emergency rental units to homeless families, try to get more kids off the streets. do you think it's important we see people who are homeless as people? >> things that start before you're homeless, what happens before that, there's nobody that puts enough attenti

. >> i thought you were doing kendrick lamar and michael cohen is going you're dead to me. i can go with you, ari. >> we can go kendrick, say he is telling jerome corsi, be humble, sit down. >> yeah. go ahead. we could do this all night. >> yes, we could, but we won't have time. later, christmas party. if we -- i actually agree with donny in the sense that the money is a critical part of the story. i have no question about that. we have already seen that with the news that's broken today. i will say if there's a family and it is a crime family that michael cohen was part of that, and what he has been done is wiser than paul manafort and recognize that he is a lot better off getting a divorce than he is going down. i think he made the right decision certainly, but i think he made it for self and family, personal family instead of the crime family. >> donny, i am over time, and that's partly my fault from the '90s rap references. i bring you the final word. >> can i bring up an abba reference? >> all views. >> out of respect to the reference of hip-hop, i'm not bringing disco

kendrick lamar. shyla buffed. tom hardy prethomas the tank engine.sica: they probably know that oprah is in your basics liberty. >> harris: she's from chicago and that's what people associate with her. >> dagen: it is like "i want her kendall and kylie are voting for!" >> "should i move to californiao vote?" >> melissa: we watched oprah yesterday, and you have your idea for politics. you can decide whether you like it or not. then we need here actually speak i think you have a different reaction. her message, though, was to vot vote. she was not there -- obviously she is advocating for a specific candidate, but when i listen to her, i was inspired to vote. i wasn't inspired to vote for the person necessarily that she was standing next to. my point is, why is may pack a crowd and she may get interest and attention, and you answer the door and you love to see her, i don't know that you have that transferred to voting for the person that she is advocating for. >> harris: she specifically said stacey abrams. she physically said "i've never done this thin

kendrick lamar is the first rapper to win a pulitzer prize ever.that echos your work. take a look. ♪ alls my life i have to fight >> have you heard him quote you before? >> no. >> u never seen that? >> no. >> and he's big. he's not alice walker big but he's big. what do you think of that? >> it's the truth of that, especially for people and people of color in this country. we've had to fight all of our lives. it's a good thing that we can talk to each other across generations. >> prizes are a funny thing. there are people who criticize knnobel and pulitzer for giving them to musicians. what do you think? >> i'm not crazy about prizes. however should have them should have them and those who should do without them should do without them? >> and we talk about oprah and whoopie. we talk about black women who had never been cast in a film before. does that help that? >> it does. the real joy comes from the work, it's not really the prize. >> that's something that comes you from and sitting across the table from you it is obvious to observe but i will ob