on the spotlight dogs of joy the m s n b c host joy reid speaks out and apologizes after she's accused hackers of inserting homophobic posts into her blog how much support will she get from the viewers and from her network itself music artists by sure a team is here on the spotlight and talks about life growing up as a muslim and how she got to be an aspiring model and artist and she's here performing one of her hits on the show now let's get it on and get this spotlight party started yeah oh yeah it feels good to be back home now we're back out of it again this is our this is our you know we've had two shows that air after the fourth of july but we're like what i did this morning i didn't come out till today all right i stayed home slept like a baby didn't even get out to go to the fireworks which was up my original plan i feel guilty already from by not doing that by doing that oh then so so that's that's one thing i didn't enjoy about fourth of july because  have you have america somebody and it's two hundred forty second birthday and you also have like you have a ton of stuff going on in our world here that goes on and on and  yeah like for example me that this is like the third or fourth time and i didn't even go out to see their i didn't get a chance to see the fireworks in person and i  used to play in a band and realized he was young once too and we found others just like us and just like that for a little less a while but then something happened we had to deal with spam click big fake news and data misuse that's going to change now on facebook will do more to keep you safe and protect your privacy so we can all get back to what made facebook good first place friends is when this place does what it was built for and we all get a little closer there's a place where the power of video takes on new meaning a place where your voice matters and your ideas count a place where you call the shots and it's right here in vibrant east harlem manhattan neighborhood 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are quite different coffee by itself has no sugar that's right i decide how much sugar goes into my cup of joe what happens when i do combine sugar and caffeine combining a lot of caffeine with a lot of sugar is not such a great idea the surge of energy can have some negative effects such as a sugar crash now i get it like almost everything caffeine is great in moderation i just shouldn't have too much or combine it with a lot of sugar well that's it for this week's wifey we sort of like our social media pages and subscribe to our channel and we'll see you next time despicable and truly offensive post being attributed to me when a friend found them in december and sent them to me i was stunned frankly i couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice that was in the months since i spent a lot of time trying to make sense of these posts i hired cyber security experts to see if somebody had manipulated my words for my for my blog and the reality is they have not been able to prove it but here's what i know i genuinely do not believe i wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me but i can definitely understand based on things i have tweeted and have written in the past why some people don't believe me i've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people i want to advocate for i own that i get it and for that i am truly truly sorry those tweets were wrong and horrible i look back today at some of the ways i've talked casually about people in gender identity and sense of sexual orientation and i wonder who that even was but the reality is that like a lot of people in this country that person was me i can only say that the person i am now is not the person i was then i like to think i've gotten better as a person over time but i'm still growing that i'm not the same person i was ten or five or even one year ago and i know that my goal is to try to be a better person and a better ally and the reality is i have to own the things that i've written and tweeted and said so what do you feel do you feel like she made a comment i feel like it's like if she made that comment if there was evidence to say that it was written by joy yeah but where is the evidence you see that i think that's the issue in cities generationally you know how people are in the media they will always say that you said something that is not true they love to twist your words in to things that is not true no i just said we don't have any evidence to prove that she said it or not but is this lady known for doing things like this to me i know i don't think she's known to do these things like that because in my opinion i did see joy really as a veteran journalist even though it has been in this industry for a long run it's so it's like i don't believe she did this at all because you know it's like if she did it then it's damned if she did and then i just hope he will continue to support her support her career in the in the long run because i don't believe she did either right or no because as a professional and as a journalist who's been in the industry for a couple years you know you would you know where you stand so you know by you saying or criticizing certain things that could really mess up your reputation and mess up business opportunities in the near future so i don't believe she will ever do something like that right you know because you also got to think about ok well if i say this i mean i'd be seen it  who had her own show on the weekends before joy re came on and enjoy it i don't know if it could relate to something like this we're going to look into investigate on this but i feel like it's something that we opinion all right because you if i don't believe you did this if this was done by someone else then that person should be found guilty ok so what do we have time for that other segment you don't need all the time in the world for all the answers to be the mentor someone needs and you don't need to be an n b a star toward the president of the united states to be someone's he support my brothers keep the events or make the time g listen you're my friend i noticed you haven't really been yourself recently i feel like something's up how are you are you ok is there anything you want to talk about i just want to know how you're feeling and listen even if you don't want to say i'm here to talk the matter what you're going through i just want you know i'm here i've got your back when you want to talk i'm here she gave them some  event that brings ties in all the different themes that are part of fact it by the sheridan campaign including culture how calm are all these things how they affect young people so that young people can be entire biography and slate you had like had like an amazing story to tell here and it's because you grew up as like a muslim from back as a child and then started doing your own music like well let's have you tell your story here ok so actually we reverted to islam in two thousand and fifteen so twenty fifteen ok so like i basically wasn't born muslim but i was around it a lot and when i was growing up i really was interested in music and just learning about you know just how to express myself through music so my mom got me involved in dance when i was very young and then when i was growing up i realized i wanted to do more and so my mom put me into my instrument lessons so i started to play the clarinet  sing different songs in key just really getting into my voice and i would say within you know from two thousand and seven in two thousand and eight to now i've been like writing my own material and recording my own material so it's been a really interesting like you know a long process but when i wasn't when i first started i didn't know like what i wanted to say and i was a muslim at the time you know like now being muslim it's so crazy because i'm now ready to drop my album and i know what i ts place in the world so being young i'm like just growing and learning what i mean to do when where i need to be with making money is that i'm learning how to incorporate that within music in being in the industry because people have such a perspective of a song like it's like the strict thing and like it's like how are you doing hip hop music so right now i think it's so important like super important that i showcased who i am as a person because i'm a human first that she doesn't overstep that she doesn't try to be somebody she's not that's what i really love about when it's because she has the energy you know what i mean and that's somebody willing inspire me my mom used to play her like so know and and i was like i want to rap i want to my mom just like eleventh twenty eight he played in sydney australia so what says michael is in life here being on the twenty eighteen must fall list and being married to getting on this amazing collab together which i so enjoyed because i was doing it when i was in sydney i was like actually answering the questions i had to get up at like six thirty in the morning city on the time here to actually answer the question and then like you know beyon that new york time and so that was interesting and the article came out i was like wow like i didn't know what it was for but i knew that it was something that would be revolutionary and so what they featured me in for is teaching women how to be modest in their own way so like constricting them and making them feel like it's not beautiful to be modest but showing them that modesty is beautiful even just by your presence and how you carry yourself you know what i mean so that was something that i was able to be influ i didn't really plan he planned the wedding and i came there and it was all ready to go i just had to ok some things which was the main thing in that i mean if those great great to be like in the space where i'm completely you know i feel like i'm coming together as a woman and i'm aware of what i need to do and the purpose that i have within myself and with the the world good guy six am i know how you managed to do that i know it was a lot for my me this is sick i just got off a flight and it was like maybe a twenty three hour flight so i was just like you know we kept going but i just made it work like i just really wanted to appreciate that like space that they had me and because they really wanted to acknowledge me and i was like wow like that's huge you know i would love to be a part of it and there is a song there that you're performing on there is a call out right yes would you like to perform there for us  d so you know what i'll tell you what i don't know what is going on back there but when we come back you're going to hear you're go i said and done things before that i'm not proud of just as i've been hurt by others the thing is this this is not who i am and it's definitely not who i want to me i want to crawl i don't want to spread gossip i don't want to be a body i don't want to exclude anyone i don't want to make anyone feel lonely left out my landlord he decided that he wanted me to move based on the fact that i was strange it takes me to a place of no hole it takes me to a place of loneliness let's just respect people in everyday life but just  this is a warning and it might be the only one that you get for those who don't mind leaving the world unchanged this is not for you but for those who want something more for those who wonder what it feels like to make a difference this warning is for you there is a profession where you work with the most vile with tile explosive medium known to m and you'll be known for ever by those whose lives are changed so consider yourself warned should you take this on you will leave a legacy you will change the future and you will feel what it's like to make more weight that came out wrong but it's really around how badly you want to take a risk yeah are you going to take a chance to either be embarrassed or get excited you know a lot of people think that when you watch t v it takes thousands of dollars in order to produce it so what eminem has proved to me that with a small team you can make big things happen i am taking every workshop editing labs were amazing they will help you win those first few shows to get you up and city it's time for another important legacy and i'm only military terrible terrible we all got some candy with us today that's a strong card game where you know people are not able to be fit are all all meet like minded people like mine you can say that again that because that is the facts right there are special thanks to basha regime for her performance thank you guys for a comment thank you guys for watching and have a great we