let's look at what jayzee has done?lly quick, i'm not going to preach to you, but we need something really special this year, just show that our generation changed the world. never happened before, we absolutely changed the world. we changed the world so it just goes to show fight for what you believe in, and stay forever young. >> is it too late in the election psych emfor jayzee to start to drum up excitement? >> hey, lawrence, i don't know about you, but every time i see jayzee i get excited. you know, jayzee, lady gaga, we were at the vma's, interviewed her on the vma stage and she brought out four officers who were released out of the military, she wants to get rid of don't ask don't tell. efforts like that is bringing attention to young americans about what's going on in politics. jayzee surely speaking out is going to have a lot of young americans paying attention. i think the best thing for the president to do is what he's doing tomorrow at our forum, a conversation with president obama, where he's going to take

watching, before he even signed i wasdoing.involved in the work he was involved with alicia keys, jayzee, all these tracks. he would bring me in to sing and play piano. he helped put me out there, so a lot more people in the music community knew who i was, and so through getting out our dreams, his label, i signed to columbia in may of 2004. and that came after, you know, years of knocking on doors, years of performing live showsl down the eastern seaboard, and trying to build a buzz and some energy. meeting some great people along the way, collaborating with people along the way and getting told no. and, you know, we just had to keep persisting and believing in the artistic vision and eventually we found a home at columbia and my first album came out in december of '04. >> talk do me a little bit about this new album. it's a very soulful album, but it's an album that makes you dig into the crates. i hear something that could be from your grandma's basement. what's the process? >> my most soulful, my most organic, and most dirty raw and gritty. ♪ >> when i originally came to quest love,

he plays songs by celine dion and later he plays tracks to perk them up with tunes like jayzee and tupac. any music for fine dining ? >> they seem to be quite hungry. y think we missed the mark on that one. >> 56 degrees on tv hill. we'll take a look at the headlines. >> again, how do i follow that? as far as traffic goes, not looking too bad. we have a few more incidents to talk about. we'll have the latest on those coming up. >> and a cool start to things this morning. it will be a nice day today and tomorrow. we'll talk about it coming up. there is our almost sunrise this morning at b.w.i. marshall. inner harbor, 5 when i melt to sleep with unisom sleep melts i get to sleep faster, stay asleep and wake refreshed. melt to sleep fast. unisom sleep melts. >> an annapolis high school student faces charges of rape. the juvenile victim was walking outside campus grounds when 17-year-old troy reid grabbed her and forced her into a wooded area across the street. >> baltimore city police are investigating an unusual death downtown. a woman's body was discovered at the bottom of an elevator sha

a founder of jayzee's rockefeller records label is under arrest in a huge marijuana zing. busted a multimillion dollar pot smuggling ring. >>> which side will blink first? rupert murdoch's corporation is blocking out fox's channels for millions of new yorkers due to a financial dispute. fox unfairly raised its programming fees. fox says the higher fees are needed for quality programming. >>> devoted fans of liberace may want to be in las vegas this weekend. a museum dedicated to the entertainer closes its doors tomorrow. liberace himself opened the museum in 1979. at one point it attracted a half million visitors a year. since then attendance has plummeted. the museum's president blames the competition from glitzy casino as long the vegas strip. look at all those beautiful cars and rings liberace used to wear as well. >>> let's talk about viral videos. lots of action, lots of suspension. we want to know about that hoop shot. joshua's here. >> we have fun stuff. we were both away last weekend. we have viral videos to make up for now. >> good, i can't wait. >> an explosion o

. >> is it too late in the election cycle for jayzee to start to drum up excitement?y, lawrence, i don't know about you, but every time i see jay-z, i get excited. you know, jay-z, lady gaga, we had the vmas, we interviewed her on the vma stage and she brought out four military officers released out of the military. you know, she wants to get rid of don't ask, don't tell. efforts like that is bringing attention to young americans about what's going on in politics. jay-z, surely speaking out is going to have a lot of young americans paying attention. i think the best thing for the president to do is what he's doing tomorrow at our forum, a conversation with president obama, where he's going to take on a lot of questions from a diverse group of young americans who come from different political viewpoints, races, religions, different backgrounds and different political parties. and i think the best thing he can do is answer those questions, let people know what his plans are in the immediate future and how he's going to change these conditions that concern young american