Jasiri X is a Dope M.C.!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czDcBivYkH8
The Season Finale of This Week With Jasiri X, Season 2Each Episode Of "This Week With Jasiri X" features Your Hip-hop News Anchor Jasiri X reporting the National news over the hottest beats.For weeks Jasiri X has provided a rapidly growing internet audience with a most creative and interesting delivery of the weekly news. Using lyrical skills, controversial subject matter, and phat beats, Jasiri X shows and proves that real Hip-hop is not in the least bit dead.Chuck D of Public Enemy once boldly declared that "Hip-hop was the CNN of the ghetto", no artist has better embraced and embodied that concept than Jasiri X.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-michael-cooper/when-politics-became-the_b_134733.html
The definition of Hip Hop has always been a political one: at the heart of democracy lies the aorta of free speech. Be it George Orwell, V.I. Lenin, Karl Marx, or Donald Oliver Soper shooting the gift (of gab) in London at Speaker's Corner of Hyde Park, or KRS-One and Chuck D voicing their opposition to Reaganomics and a Dickensian New York in the late '80s, or Jay-Z, Puff, and Kanye describing theirBrave Rich World from Gulfstream-V windows 40,000 feet above Monaco in rhythmic iambic pentameter, Hip Hop is the vox of the common man speaking to power.
FDR was Hip Hop: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
MLK was Hip Hop: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
JFK was Hip Hop: "And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
RWR was Hip Hop: "The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill"....And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago."
Bill Clinton is Hip Hop, too, but George Walker Bush embodies the flatline of Gangsta Rap: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised...Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing."Barack Obama is the greatest MC of all time. The DNC's Master of Ceremony's skills of Moving the Crowd have never been more evident than on the night of August 28th, 2008 in Denver's Invesco Stadium. It was the night Barack Obama fulfilled Martin Luther King's dream, and accepted the Democratic National Party's nomination for President. I wonder what went through his mind before he took the stage that night. Was it Jigga, as Obama mentally scrolled through his list of detractors in the media and politics, who tried to clown him by deifying him?: "I never claimed to have wings on/I get my/by any means on/when there's a drought/get your umbrellas out/that's when I brainstorm."
Maybe it was Rakim in the earbuds of Obama's iPod: "I'm not a regular competitor/ first rhyme editor/ Melody arranger, poet, etcetera/ Extra events, the grand finale like bonus/I am the man they call the microphonist."
Or maybe it was just Barack Obama being Barack Obama on this most historic night, transforming rap into epos: "We cannot turn back. America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate. And so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix. And cities to rebuild, and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect, and so many lives to mend. America we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone...in America, our destiny is inextricably linked."I don't know if John McCain is Hip Hop. I don't know if he or the Republican Party understands that it is the culture of Hip Hop that has directly -- and indirectly -- fueled the youth movement behind Barack Obama. Many have made this connection between Obama and Hip Hop, including the great New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, to a young Baltimore, Md. journalist by the name of Timothy Cooper.
Even Robin Williams said on Letterman a few weeks ago:
Obama running is wonderful. It's-initially it was very interesting with people being kind of afraid of going, 'You know, he's a very eloquent black man'. And some folks in Conneticut going, 'Well, he's a tan Kennedy'. But...what was their fear, though? Are they afraid that this very eloquent man will be elected President, and all of a sudden he takes the oath of office and goes, 'Yo what's up?!! (Williams grabbing his crotch in the b-boy style) Yo-yo-yo! Yo gonna keep it real! I'ma bring it home right now, no more of that Urkel stuff! I wanna introduce some members of my cabinet: this is Lil' Ray-Ray, Skinny G, Colin Powell, because he's bad! Keepin' it real!
The Gen-Y'ers have truly made the connection between Barack Obama and Hip Hop. They are his advance team on Facebook, My Space, and Friendster, an army of Millennials that has assisted the Obama campaign in raising hundreds of millions of dollars online. For this new paradigm--young white kids (and Asian, Latino, African-American, and multi-racial kids, too)--the culture of Hip Hop allowed them to embrace a black man without fear, suspicion, or loathing. These same Gen-Y'ers will go to a Jay-Z concert and know all the words to "Regrets" or "Lost Ones." Michael Phelps motored Beijing's Olympic blue cube -- stoked by the fires of Lil' Wayne lyrics playing in his head -- en route to a record eight gold medals. These same Millennials are also educating their parents around the breakfast and dinner table, letting them know that the Baby Boomer version of the American Dream, the Woodstock, flower power, peace, love, and Haight-Ashbury, has grown up in Eminem's 8 Mile of Detroit, Snoop Dogg's Long Beach, and Common's South Side of Chicago. Their world may not be a ghetto, but the Millennials have broadbanded it into their very own 3-G global 'hood. Which, incidentally, is Obama's hood, too.
So I don't know if John McCain is Hip Hop. Last week, with McCain and Sarah Palin -- the Charli Baltimore of the G.O.P. -- and their operatives flashing the political gang signs to their conservative base ("Terrorist", "Ayers", "Who is the real Barack Obama"?), The Straight Talk Express derailed into lyrics of David Bowie's "Candidate": "I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate/we'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake...I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people/ spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up."
John McCain may be more Rock and Roll than Hip Hop, which --along with R&B-- was the Hip Hop of the '60s and '70s. The raison d'etre of John McCain seems to trapped between a pair of Bowie bookends: The Man Who Fell To Earth who joins forces with The Man Who Sold The World. No matter how much distance this heroic fighter pilot and former POW tries to put between George W. Bush -- who is on an unswerving, abominable path towards presiding over the most calamitous administration in American history -- McCain cannot escape the connection nor the facts. Wall Street continues to collapse. The ranks of the unemployed swell to hundreds of thousands every month. The war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and an increasingly unstable Pakistan seem to have no end in sight. Those are the facts, and so is this: life as we know it in this country is slowly rotting away. And that's not Hip Hop. That's the discord of an apocalypse. And -- quite possibly -- as Sen. John S. McCain may find out at the end of the last and final debate with Barack Obama on Wednesday at Hofstra University, his campaign's swan song.
This video that I compiled to accompany my original song chronicles what happens when voters are defrauded and votes are left on the table.
The title of the song is 'We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)'. It can be found here: We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)
We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)
The video for We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.) serves as a reminder that the last 8 years have been run by an illegitimate administration that was thrust into power on the backs of 19000 eligible voters in Florida that were illegally removed from the voter rolls. This was conspired by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, Clayton Roberts, Karl Rove, and Database Technologies.
People, you have to get out and vote on November 4 en masse and don't let it be close this time.
The Bush Legacy:Disenfranchisement, 9/11, Enron, Worldcom, Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG Restructuring, An Iraq War that still has not been Justified after 5+ years, $4 gasoline, Patriot Act, Record Foreclosures, Rising Unemployment, Illegal Surveillance, Tax Payer funded bailouts for Mortgage Companies, Patriot Act. By the way, I have not heard of any bailouts for taxpayers struggling to pay their mortgages.
It's time to say Eight is Enough!We Were Robbed!
If you dig the video, please feel free to distribute freely to anyone you feel needs to get the message or post it to own your websites, emails, and blogs supporting Senator (and Future President) Obama. At the conclusion of this post I will post the embed code and URL for your personal websites, blogs and emails.
Please distribute freely if you believe in the message. I welcome your feedback.
Respectfully,
Uncle NateObama/Biden '08
Here is the embed code for your personal websites/blogs:
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Here is the link for your email:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFerpq2VApg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSVG7jRp_g
Here is a letter to the Senator from one of our contributors.
Barack Obama is bringing us as a people together with his historical Presidential campaign. Despite numerous trials, he has maintained his composure and dignity. No matter how many slanderous commercials John McCain airs, it does not take away from the fact that Barack Obama is making history and setting the stage for African-American men and women that have always dreamt of calling the White House home.
This blog is short and sweet just click on the link to the video and enjoy. I hope this will motivate us to get out there and and do all the hard work it is going to take to get Obama elected into the White House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPfv8JEEj8A
The Audacity of Hip-Hop: The Obama Mix http://jayteedee.mypodcast.com/2008/04/The_Audacity_of_HipHop-99445.html "They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, to disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose... We are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come." This is dedicated to everybody everywhere who believes in freedom, and change, and unity, and hope. Tracklist Barack Obama Speaks on Hip-Hop Jay-Z - American Dreamin' Black Spade - Revolutionary Bullsh*t The Roots - Rising Up featuring Wale and Chrisette Michelle The Roots - Rising Down featuring Mos Def and Styles P J. Kwest - I Am Obama Hi-Tek - Tekzilla featuring Common Barack Obama Speaks on Fatherhood Common - Black Maybe featuring Bilal Blackstar - Respiration (Remix) featuring Black Thought Michelle Obama Interlude Kaleber - Dope Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It (Remix) featuring Scarface and Nas Pharoahe Monch - Never Walk Together FMB - Vote Obama featuring Taz-Ra Barack Obama Speaks on America Download and Enjoy Juwan
Check out the other mixes: http://jayteedee.mypodcast.com/
Dear Friend,
I have composed song album, "Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!"
a very catchy song, which will make the whole America rock. The beauty of the song is that it brings the fulfillment of every American to become Obama..........and displays pity on Clinton..! thus posing how generous our Barack Obama is, we donot retaliate against Clinton on her attacks, we simply ignore and pity on her on doing so, as she has no other chance to win...........she is desparate and she can do anything, she may be preparing for more attacks, before she can even launch any of her attacks lets suppress her attacks by showcasing pity on her, and make the whole America realize the attacks are the outcome of Clinton's losing ground, and she is left with nothing more but lost nomiation, still she wanna WIN ? yes she can....Obama's winning is her winning...! America's winning and the World's winning...!
you can make this song reach every corner of America by helping to promote the song album.
Please check out the song album link as below,
http://www.songcastmusic.com/profiles/mypoojan
please forward it to as many people as possible and ask your friends also to forward. With your and your friends little support we can built the wave of "Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!
Forward to all your friends, and as many people as you can.
"Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!"
Thank you,Warm Regards,Manish Shahmony_shah@hotmail.com
Learned this one this past weekend:
(fast, hip-hop rhythm)
B (to the) A (to the) R-A-C, K-O! (to the) B (to the) A-M-A
ba-RACK! Obama, BA-rack O-bama!
http://nahright.com/news/2007/12/11/video-kidz-in-the-hall-work-to-do-obama-08/
Chicago-based critically acclaimed hip-hop duo Kidz N The Hall (whose producer Double O just produced the title track for Rocafella artist Freeway's new album, "Free At Last") just produced a Youtube video featuring clips of Sen. Obama for their song "Work To Do", going so far as to subtitle the song (Obama '08). This should be a great look for getting cutting edge hip-hop fans "fired up" about the campaign!
Check out the video in the link above and spread it around!
Kidz N The Hall were formerly on Rawkus Records but recently signed with indie powerhouse Duck Down Records, home of Black Moon, Sean Price, Smif-n-Wesson and numerous other acclaimed hip-hop acts.
"If you're really supporting somebody, you're not looking for something back all the time," said Common. "He'd do best just getting elected and going in there and doing well, that's the best way he can give back to us. We don't need him to be at the concerts."
Real hip-hop is an art form and real hip-hop tracks have a message. That's why I was inspired by the fact that Common gives Senator Obama a shout-out on one of the tracks off of his new album, Finding Forever. In "The People" Common rhymes:
"I see the I in we, yours in my drama/Standin in front of the judge with no honor/my raps ignite the people like Obama"
In addition to being well on his way to being a hip-hop legend, Common is a "Chi-town legend" and his support shows that Obama hasn't forgotten his ties to the Southside of Chicago.
"He's fresh, you know, he's got good style," Common told CNN. "As far as people in my age group and people that love hip-hop, there's a love for Obama. He represents progress. He represents what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about progress, the struggle."
To view the music video for Common's song "The People" click on the YouTube screenshot above...
"There's no doubt that hip-hop culture moves our young people powerfully. And some of it is not just a reflection of reality," Obama said in an interview with VIBE magazine. "It also creates reality. I think that if all our kids see is a glorification of materialism and bling and casual sex and kids are never seeing themselves reflected as hitting the books and being responsible and delaying gratification, then they are getting an unrealistic picture of what the world is like."
“If I'm ignoring those issues and spending all my time worrying about rap lyrics, then I'm wasting my time," he said.
"Because for the first time since VIBE was launched in 1993, a political figure has burst on the scene and fired up young people in a major way," VIBE editor-in-chief Danyel Smith said by e-mail (to the Associated Press). "Because regardless of who wins the election, the Senator will have inspired many new voters to the polls. Because Obama is frank, brilliant, vibrant, and not cynical--all things that make him a perfect VIBE cover."
