rahh...i'm sitting in this damn library TRYING to be productive but it is not working. i honestly think i can never get shit done unless i'm procrastinating...i don't have much to say actually. i heard busta rhymes comin to pgh at the end of the month, who's tryna go with me?? AY PRATT get that song together so you can be blazin hip hop&r&b on WAMO asap! niggyyy. m'fucker....sorry temporary pittsburgh 'slang' slip...
i just read this article by Rosa Clemente who ran for VP with Cynthia McKinney on the Green Party ticket. She's writing about Obama and how he is not the first hip hop President. I guess it came after a lot of 'heads of hip hop' were calling President Obama a hip hop President and because Obama used the 'hip hop generation' to his advantage during his campaign.
my first question would be - what the fuck is a hip hop President?
second question - what are we defining as the 'Hip Hop Movement' because I personally think this woman has it twisted. I think of Hip Hop as a culture made up of rhyming, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti, and empowerment. she is defining it as an extremely progressive movement that supports ending the war in Iraq, the Palestinian people, GLTBQ people, women leaders, and everything else. While, I am personally in line with all of these views, I don't really think that's what the 'Hip Hop Movement' is about...and I don't appreciate Ms. Clemente using Hip Hop as a way to both bash President Obama and also push her own political agenda...
It's a really short article (no more than a 5 minute read), so yall should check it out because I really want to get people's opinions on this...
http://www.greeninstitute.net/clemente_obama
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