i think kendrick lamar's album is amazing. has the power to transcend cull turs and i believe he's teaching us with this project. i'm reminded of black face jim crow things like that and there are different things of white supremacy that's hinted in his project. i think it's an amazing piece of work. >> it's -- you know i'm old and so i think it is amazing relative to the current landscape of hip-hop, but i'm going to just retain some of those critiques for a moment. i want you to talk to me for a second about what it is -- you've said it before. i heard you say it just now which is this idea that hip-hop can make a difference in this. what is it that hip-hop particularly as a cultural form can do that can shove this race conversation into a different place? >> absolutely. i think with kendrick's album to pimp a butterfly, i believe he's telling his story and battling his complexities of being a successful black man in america despite white supremacy and the conditions that hip-hop has been exploited as we discussed before. i

thank you quincy. >> you know that song by kendrick lamar marry jay now or never ever hear that one?ly? >> i know, please. hey, this makes me sick. >> new miss japan facing criticism, get this, for not be japanese you have no. >> for the love. >> the first by racial miss japan to compete in the miss japan concert. her mother japanese, her father african-american. she is japanese citizen, and grew up in japan. those two fact they allow her to compete according to pageant standards. >> of course, she said while she doesn't look japanese on the outside, inside, there are many japanese things about her. that's all she snows. she grew up in japan. >> leave her alone let her be miss japan. i hope she wins miss universe now, too. >> take that. >> let's talk about the first lady. known for he can trend set when he it comes to fashion and her hair, but her appearance on popular game show, a lot of people are like what? really? >> she is on jeopardy what we are trying to tell you frenzy was crazier than when she she first debuted her banks. >> a lot of people talking about those. >> i really l

kendrick lamar, sam smith, angelo, billy idol and that's just the beginning. so far there are more than 70 bands and performers booked to play the three-band musical in golden gate park this august. >>> it already feels like summer later this week. elton john. >> elton john. >>> it feels like mild. we have a good breeze going partly to mostly cloudy skies. the system to the north has produced rain up to the north coast. not too much down here. still trying to drive but is running into a lot of resistance. cloudy to the north. very light rains made it to the kills of calistoga. arcata, humboldt county. >> ukiah, willits. .50, .75. fort bragg has had rain. after that it just kind of fizzles out and looks like not much is going to happen. maybe northern sonoma county. really it's more show than go. 60s on the temps. some areas are pretty close here it includes the coast and bay. there's not a huge spread on these temps. you can feel muggy there. water temps, where are you? there were there when i looked earlier. they are about 55. 56, 5, 57. that's very warm for

sam smith and kendrick lamar are some of the other big names. festival goers can buy tickets. it is the first weekend in august. and like every year 10s of thousands of people are expected. >> elton john? >> big lineup. i have never gone. >> she's connected. backstage passes? >> i didn't know i was connected. i've never gone. >>> we usually have great weather for that. the weather not going to feel quite like august but it's going to feel like june throughout this week. we'll talk about the return of 80-degree heat in just a few minutes. >>> we're following some breaking news in the south bay. crews are battling a house fire in san jose near the 101/280 interchange. when firefighters arrived at this home, two people ran out. there's a fear that one other man is accounted for and might be inside of the home. the other person was still inside fighting the flames. it's unknown if that person made it out alive. crews have searched the house. no one was found inside. firefighters will now search the garage to see if anyone is there as well. we have a crew arriving at the scene. we'

he's doing that divert attention from kendrick lamar's album, but celebrities use it too to get attention speaking of attention, starbucks got a lot of attention for what it's trying to do. i admire what they were trying to do, the chairman of starbucks, who was coming at this from a really pure place, but the reaction to what he wants to do in the stores, was just, it's incredible. you think they were wrong, naive to try to go down this route? >> keep in mind, starbucks did this with "usa today," so as a member of that family, i have to applaud this project. race is a part of every conversation in america whether you know it or not. that's how we define ourselves, to some degree, it's in every conversation anyway. it's very hard to start that conversation in the middle of a sidewalk, and say, hey, you're the black guy, you're the white guy, what do you think of that? not sure what they're trying to get out of that. >> i think they should be commended for trying. they're trying to prompt a conversation. i think it's a good thing. it's a hard conversation to have, they're about to learn th

not only will justin timberlake be on it but pharrell kendrick lamar, jamie foxx will be hosting so youw there's a ton of surprises. we're really excited to see because this is done by the fans, who's going to win best fan army. so it's 8:00 to 11:00 this sunday night right here on nbc. >> we can't wait. rihanna and blake next to eesm other. >> i heard some of those meetings about how they sit people next to each other. there are reasons why they do and reasons why they don't. >> i'll bet. strategy behind that. you have big hot tickets to give away tomorrow morning. >> i don't have tickets. i got money, thousands of dollars. $2,000. 7:25 and 8:25 tomorrow on hot 99.5. know the phrase that pays and you could win. >> too bad we can't play. >> pay for the babysitters. >> thanks, company. >> great to see you. >>> stirring the conversation. what one of tv's biggest stars is saying about a local college that has people talking about race relations. >>> and also coming up today, we are staying on top of our big breaking story of the day. it's the disaster in the skies after a plane filled with

you go to a show and you're performing your songs, and you're sold out, shouts out to big sean kendrick lamars great. the first opening line on his album is every niggar's a star. that's the first thing. some of the biggest songs use it. so when you go to your show and you're performing, me personally i've never seen an artist stop the show and go you guys can't use this word. so it's just in general to get to the nitty gritty of the bottom of this if we have a problem with the word and it's going to continue to cause things, we should eliminate the word, period. because if we're going to use the word then people are going to use the word. >> i want to play your song and let's listen to that and then we'll talk about, i think the genie is out of the bottle. but we'll talk about it. here's your song. ♪ going on my watch ♪ ♪ don't believe me just watch ♪ ♪ niggar niggar niggar ♪ ♪ don't believe me just watch ♪ >> how does that make you feel? >> when i did that song two years ago, i wasn't trying to be the person to use it for racist acts to use this song. i wasn't. not at all. i love everyone.

festival will be have lighted headlined by big music acts such as mumford and sons, the black keys, kendrick lamarludes more than 70 extremely diverse music and entertainment acts. the three day concert takes place august 7th at 2 tonight in golden gate park and most of the tickets have already been sold. >> pam: and next of insider two-story followed by entertainment tonight at 730. >> reporter: we're gonna be hot in friday. in the '90s possibly. in the early part of next week will be down again with seasonable local we're looking at a dry and warm wet a weather into the unscom upcoming weekend. >> pam: until then stay in touch with our kron4.com. will see you in an hour. >>> angelina undergoes another preventive cancer treatment. plus, the clooneys take over new york. and our "f around here, we're all about fast. that's why xfinity is perfect for me. with millions of wifi hotspots all over the place including one right here at the shop now we can stream all things fast and furious. you've done it again, carlos! with the fastest in-home wifi and millions of hotspots xfinity is perfect for people

kendrick lamar and even sam smith. outside lands's festival is august 7th through the 9th. tickets sold out pretty quick. but general yal mission as well as vip tickets -- admission as well as vip tickets go on sale tomorrow. >>> a 9-year-old boy remains in the hospital after collapsing on the school playground and two teachers are being called heroes for the action they took to help save his life. he's a 4th grader in rohnert park. he passed out monday and was face down on the playground. two teachers rushed over to help putting their cpr training to work. >> they are seriously heros in our eyes. he was face down, very limp. the -- the first thing i did was to see if he had a pulse, there was nothing there. he wasn't responding. i saw his eyes rolling back in the head. we knew it was life or death at that time. >> vinny as airlifted to you will sill packard's -- lucile packard. his family says he's awake and alert thanks to the two teachers certified to use cpr. they also say vinny has a heart condition and it may have something to do with his collapse on the playground. w

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