Lupe Fiasco’s song “Word’s I Never Said” spoke critically on school funding cuts, the War on Terror, Israel, Muslims that commit violence, and rappers that solely looking to Tupac for rebellion.

Bill O’reilly didn’t like Lupe’s statements about the War on Terror. So Bill brought in Fiasco on his program for a debate.

So there has been two discussions going:
1.How did Lupe do?

2.Did he do better than Cam’ron and Dame Dash’s infamous “U-MAD” segment vs. O’Reilly?
Obviously, Lupe was speaking more seriously.
But did he own O’Reilly like Cam did?
Cam’ron’s U-mad segment after the jump

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Don’t ask me why. But every now and again, I look around the internet to see what Anticon is up to. Well, Sole from Anticon has recorded perhaps the worst rap song in history, or the ballsiest song since ahem, “Makeshift Patriot” by Sage Francis.

“My President is Black, and that don’t mean jack” . Sole says on the hook of the first anti-Obama Hip Hop song, that sends up Young Jeezy’s Black Nationalist anthem. He makes a good point every now and again. Then fucks it up by either making fun of how black people talk or saying some shit about how spicy the food he found in the trash prolly is.

MP3:Sole (feat Jared Paul)-My President Is Black

For those not familar, Anticon was a bunch of people that would’ve never been allowed to rap in public, but due to technology, they were able to start a movement that dominated cyberspace because Gucci Mane didn”t have a twitter yet.

Sole was the guy who owned Anticon. He basically alienated everyone by calling EL-P a wigger who then called him and recorded Sole being scurred on the telephone.

They were exiled for for being nerds. Which in retrospect, the rest of underground Hip Hop like Def Jux and Eastern Conferance shoulda let Anticon stick around because as soon as Sole’s label was blackballed, all the rest of underground rap became the nerds.

Some Anticon guys did ok. Buck 65 made out with Tom Waits and got a gig dejaying Tim Hortons private parties. Why? stopped rapping, picked up a ukelelee and became a hearthrob for Jewish Art School girls. Dose One joined TV on the Radio or something like that.

Jeezy’s “My President” was one of my favorite songs last year because I thought it really captured the magnitude of the moment.

What do you think of Sole’s version?

for more info on Sole,… hit up his website, www.soleone.org

via Strummy

Last week I was contacted by MoveOn.org to put something together for an email blast they are doing for the lead up to the inauguration. This one is called “Victory Lap: The Obama Mix Pt. 2”. It’s my way of congratulating all of us for electing what I think is the right person for the job. We made history and I’m proud to be a part of that. Yes, my friends, it is time to celebrate, but please don’t lose sight of the mess we are still in, there is plenty of work that lies ahead.

Salute. Black Nationalism is the new Patriot Act.

 Today marks the official beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency.  The above video is of Young Jeezy’s “My President is Black”  being performed live in  Washington, DC on the eve of this historic day. The album verison of “My President” has Nas. But once again Nas lost; Nasir  didn’t make it DC, I guess. Jay-z raps instead,  jokingly saying “My president is black but he is infact  half-white. So even in a racist’s mind he is alright.” I still love Jeezy’s verse though for the line, “Be all that you can be. Don’t that sound like some dumb shit.”

 Congrats America. You can look at yourself in the mirror for the first time in awhile.

I just spent twenty minutes looking for an online flyer for Hugs N Kisses “Black Tuesday” Show. Eventually I gave up looking for something that is used for a promotional tool and set the flyer on the floor and took a picture of it on my cellphone. Anyway Hugs N Kisses are throwing an pro-government party at Carabar. Here are two songs they just dropped off to celebrate our countries’ political system. Should be funny. Last time I saw Hugs N Kisses, Donnie Monaco shit in a fishtank and yelled shitgaze.

MP3:Hugs N Kisses-Jawn Mkkkain’s Theme Musick

MP3:Hugs N Kisses-Barack Obama’s Theme Music

Barack Obama spoke on the Statehouse Lawn yesterday.Downtown was completely swarmed by Obama’s movement. According to The Toledo Blade 60,000 people showed up. John Glenn, Mayor Coleman, and Governor Strickland were all in the building, er I mean on the lawn. It was actually pretty amazing to see that many people actually caring about something.

Skip this section if you don’t want to hear me try to be funny and talk extensively about myself. Go directly to the next picture..

Columbus rapper/lifetime Democrat Envelope woke me up at Eleven, and reminded me to go the rally. The emcee was headed up there with his entire liberal family. I like Envelope’s family but was little hung-over to kick it with anyone’s kinfolk. So I headed out the door dolo.

On the packed bus to downtown, I wondered when Biden was gonna become cocaine slang, like you know how The Catalyst said, “I keep that whiteboy jumping like House of Pain.” or Jeezy keeps “that white girl, that Christina Aguilara.” . I mean if the only thing whiter that Cam’s coke “is Brooke Shields”. Why can’t a rapper keep that powerful white, Joe Biden?

I Know that rappers aren’t ever gonna call coke Biden. They respect Obama too much. In the new issue of The Source T.I. said that he is voting for Obama because Barack has a good plan for the ecosystem, and will address the energy crisis. If Obama wins, is hip hop going to become Patriotic, anti-war, enviromentalist music? Gotta do what the leader says right? Shit remember when everyone was reading the Final Call, and learning how to Build. Weird. Your favorite rappers might start driving a Prius, as well as advocating economic sacrfices for the greated good and even possibly promoting world peace.

The Obama crowd flooded both the Statehouse lawn, and the adjacent roads. So there was a screen in the middle of High Street. This picture was taken on my phone with me standing directly in the middle of the High and Broad intersection. The crowd was pretty thick behind me. Mayor Coleman announced that this was the largest crowd in the history of Columbus.
Stickland spoke. Both the Mayor’s and Governor’s main points were Mkkkain is a lot like Bush so you should go vote early.

Right before Obama came on, “Movin On Up” by Curtis Mayfield played. Kinda clever. The song had been sampled by Just Blaze for “Touch the Sky” a Kanye West song with Lupe Fiasco. Cool cause Kanye, Obama, and Lupe are all from Chi, and the song was a hit a few years ago. Even smarter that it was the Curtis Mayfield song because. 1. It prolly resonated with older people. 2.He managed to let young people know he liked the same music as them without having to answer for Lupe being an Islamic Jihadist.

The melody of the Mayfield song made me look up like. The fuck? The next president listens to Kanye and Lupe?

Michelle Obama came on. She basically told the crowd that her husband thinks he can do everything. A true intellectual, visionary eager to change the world. And she basically said that he can do 75 percent of it, but he needs all of our help to make things happen.

The would-be first lady stepped off. Obama came on. He bigged up Mayor Coleman and Strickland. Then he gave John Glenn some extra love.

Barack’s speech was more a call to arms than a detailed plan. His main goal was to get the voters to walk from High and Broad to Veteran’s Memorial located on 300 W. Broad to vote early.

Obama did the whole Malcolm X referencing thing that he has been called out for. Basically he says Mkkkain is trying to “hoodwink” you. He paused , pulled up short and didn’t say “bamboozled” and “led-astray”. The crowd finished that for him. I mean. I kinda like the idea that next president has seen the movie Malcolm X.

You can look at a legitimate new sources to get his exact quotes on how Dick Chaney came out of an undisclosed location to vote for Mkkkain. Basically saying our VP can’t even show his face in public is delighted to vote for Mkkkain.

Barack clarified at what point he would have his hand in your pocket. He asked everyone who make over 250k to put their hands up. And said that the people who will be immune to the tax increase “includes 98 percent of small businesses and 99.9 percent of plumbers,”

Much of what I could type here has prolly been in other speeches. Y’know ending the war in Iraq. And the whole thing that Colleen Powell endorsed Obama on;the ability to unify our country in these dire times.

The other thing I enjoyed besides the Malcolm X jump-off was the thing Jim Tressel bit from Obama. In the closing segment of the speech, basically asking people to come together to elect him president and then follow it up by everyone taking a hand in bettering the country. Mr. Obama said the motto of the 2008 football team. F.U.N. Fierce Urgency of Now. At the time I thought Obama was just way up on Buckeye football. But after some googling it turns out that Obama lifted the acronym from MLK, and then Tressel jacked Barack to inspire his team to rally around it’s Senior Class’ attempt to go to Capital One Bowl.

All in all to see 60,000 people actually think that Obama can change the world in these bleak times was pretty alright.

Normally I would never advocate being involved with politics. And I would especially never advocate downloading a political mixtape that involves Jay-Z. But if Mkkkain wins we will be forced to hear a bunch of coward liberals complaining all the time about shit they have no intention of doing anything about. So I want Obama to win so that I won’t have look at most the political people around me as lazy, uninteresting and impotent. I am also voting for Obama because he got Young Jeezy’s endorsement. And Jeezy is about his people, his paper and proper mental health. Sidney Portier, what it do. Russell Simmons, and Green Lantern prolly have other reasons. So they put this tape together.

Green Lantern+Russell Simmons-Barack Obama:Yes We Can Mixtape

1. Intro 
2. David Banner,Busta Rhymes,Talib Kweli “Black President” Rmx pt1 * 
3. Barack Obama “Stand Up”* 
4. Nas Speaks on Politics 
5. Styles P and Cassidy “Make It Out”* 
6. Jay-Z Speaks “The American Dream” 
7. Barack Obama “One Mic, One People” 
8. Russell Simmons Speaks on Obama 
9. Joe Budden,Twista,John Mayer “Waiting on the World to Change 2008? 
10. Angie Martinez “Yes We Need A Mixtape!!” 
11. Kanye West,Malik Yusef “Promised land 
12. Wale,Rhymefest,Christina K, Royce 529 “Black President” RMX Pt2* 
13. Barack Obama “My Life”* 
14. Jay-z “Lick a Shot”* 
15. Russell Simmons on Change 
16. Wyclef “Obama for President” 
17. Charles Hamilton “The Moment” 
18. Find ur Dreams (interlude) * 
19. George Bush’s Highlight Reel 
20. Mikkey Halsted “King George” * 
21. Obama on Hip-Hop 
22. Joel Ortiz feat Dante Hawkins “Letter To Obama” * 
23. Akon , U.M. “Aint No Sunshine” * 
24. Qadir, Dwayne (Invasion) “Its My Time 
25. Johnny Polygon (Invasion),Amanda Diva “Colorblind” * 
26. Mavado “We Need Barack” * 
27. Jay-Z / Gabe Real “What We Need” (Speech) 
28. Qadir “Yes We Can” Outro

Akron’s own DEVO will appear on the Civic Theatre stage. This performance is a benefit for the Summit County Democratic Party. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, October 7th, at 11:00 a.m.

Full details here.

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