So, everything looks swell for Barack Obama right now. He's the presumptive Democratic nominee. McCain is looking like more and more of an incompetent fool each day. And while this is certainly something brother Barack wouldn't wish for, the sorry state of the economy definitely tilts the scales in favor of a candidate promising great change. With a well-funded campaign, a strong wife by his side and global adoration, what else could Obama possibly need?
I know....a Ludacris song! 
Uh-oh....
Check out what the former Chris Lova Lova has to say on his new track, "Politics: Obama Is Here":
I'm back on it like I just signed my record deal
Yeah the best is here, the Bentley Coup paint is dripping wet, it got sex appeal/
Never should have hated/
You never should've doubted him
with a slot in the president's iPod, Obama shattered 'em /
Said I handled his biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer
Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that b^$&%* is irrelevant/
Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
If you said it then you meant it how you want it have a gut!
And all you other politicians trying to hate on my man,
watch us win a majority vote in every state on my man/
You can't stop what's bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it's meant to be /
The threats ain't fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
so get off your ass, black people, it's time to get out and vote!
Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified
McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and I throw em like candy wrap/
Cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents/
Get out and vote or the end will be near
the world is ready for change because Obama is here!
Cause Obama is here
The world is ready for change because Obama is here!
What a complete idiot. I swear some of these rappers MUST be on the Republican payroll! He can't be serious! Didn't Luda have a big row with Bill O'Reilly once before that cost him his Pepsi endorsement? How could he THINK that this is gonna HELP Obama? Rappers could do way more damage to the campaign than Reverend Wright ever could. I hope that Obama's people are smart to keep him waaaay away from Jay, Luda, Jeezy and these other halfwit "thug" rappers who think they are doing the Democratic Party a favor by endorsing the people's champ.
It would not matter if this were the most well written, intelligent verse this side of "Stakes Is High". All Fox/CBS/CNN needs is the fact that it's Ludacris and they will be transcribing the lyrics to "What's Your Fantasy" on the seven o'clock news with the headline "OBAMA'S FAVORITE RAPPER". AND if the fact that he did the song were not bad enough, he calls Hillary Clinton a bitch. Complete idiot. Black In America*! 
Sir, your attempts to disguise yourself as an early-90's R&B singer have failed.
There is a very short list of rappers who could do an Obama song that wouldn't be a 'bad' look: Mos (ouch, we do have recent spousal abuse accusations from the non-Black video trollop he married, but most people don't know about that), Common (even though he goes to Wright's church, LOLerskates!), Kweli, De La, Black Thought, Wyclef, some lesser knowns....the rest of 'em need to go vote quietly. I'm all for encouraging Black youth and Hip-Hop fans to vote, but not at the expense of the campaign.
How about this guy? I could just lay in his hair, btw.
It's been said before, but I will say it again: Barack Obama is not running for the president of the NAACP. He's running to be the president of one of the most ignorant, racist countries in the world. In order to do so, he will need to capture a certain percentage of the idiot vote (which is a group that includes many, many Americans). There is the Black idiot vote (i.e. Ludacris) and there is the White idiot vote (i.e. those who would believe in a 'terrorist fist jab' or that a politician who gets name checked by a rapper is obviously a member of said-rapper's posse of hooligans).
Perhaps this is all in my head (shucks, I hope it is), but I certainly believe that too much support from certain rappers (those with long catalogues of violent, misogynistic, homophobic and drug-laced lyrics) would be far more damning to the Obama campaign than that New Yorker cover from a few weeks back. New Yorker presented a sorry attempt at 'satire' that, according to some, drew more attention to the fact that some yokels believe Obama is a Muslim militant with Michele-Angela-Davis Obama by his side. The Ludacris song, however, further "racializes" the candidate and aligns him not simply Blackness or Hip Hop, but niggatry. This is a man who had an album cover on which he was salting a Black woman's leg and preparing to bite it like a chicken wing. This is not someone you want in your corner.
What say you?
Sister Toldja
*- I am just gonna exclaim "Black In America" everytime one of my people does something foolish.
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I actually think "controversies" like this say more about the sorry state of politics than anything.
But you are right, it does mean something because media will make it mean something. But I think it will only make those who don't like Obama continue to not like Obama and those who do to continue to like him. Not much else really.
Part of me would rather that we ignore this kind of stupidity, but we simply can't afford to. That's unfortunately how white supremacy works.
I agree with your sentiments completely on this article! From the stupidity of rappers and how detrimental they can be to Barack Obama's campaign to Barack's focus needing to be bigger than just the social ills of the black community.
"He isn't running for President of the NAACP" - I'm using that one!
When I caught a glimpse of Ludacris on E! I said in my head "Nooooooo!", ok I said it out loud, I was troubled because since I saw it passing by E! I knew it would hit the masses.... It felt like how I would feel if I went to court and my only witnesses to exonerate me were a crackhead & his dealer... sigh...
"tha management" already said everything i was going to.
i've always said that the least of obamas worries were some crazed rednecks with rifles (or newspaper columns). we (black people) have the potential do to much more damage to his campaign than they ever could.
posts like these are why i keep coming back.
great words, keep em coming.
EXACTLY!
Is it possible to place a gag order on folks, famous and non, until after the election. Just shut the EFF up!! You'd think that he'd put his best lyrical foot fwd if he's shouting out the 1st black president, but instead he nigged it up with the Bitch talk and the locked up reference (the wheelchair line is kinda classic tho). lol
When I first heard about the song I thought- Luda still raps? Maybe I was hoping that with the cutting off of the braids he would "retire" from the game altogether. I guess I need to pray a bit harder. (But his whats your fantasy remix was a hot record in my hs in Brooklyn)
I just hope that other destitute/untalented rappers ie Flava Flave, Shug Knight, MC Hammer, Soldja Boy, etc will stay in the shadows and wont jump on Baracks suit coat to get an additional 15 seconds of fame at this man's expense.
I'm a Luda fan so i think i tend to find ways to always defend him. I'm assuming he has been following the elections so he felt that he could talk about it but of course in his own way. I'm sure he didn't think making the song was meant to boost Barak's likeability as a whole but just think about those that will never watch a debate or turn to CNN but WILL listen to Luda's music and co-sign with his opinions. They vote too! Everything that is not good for YOU isn't automatically bad.
Piggyback on Mika Rock. Piggybacks are allowed right?
I wonder if you applied your standards imposed upon rappers to yourself if you would be qualified to write a pro-Sen. Obama post....
Just askin, not attackin. (I freestyled that)
But my point is that Luda isn't any less qualified to support Sen. Obama than anyone else. None of us are perfect. Kweli even did a song with UGK. And I'm sure you hate UGK.
More importantly, really go over those lines. What did he do that is so bad? Rap is and will always be a hard core, loud, and in your face form of expression. That's all Luda did. He used profanity, his approach was brash, he said black people go vote and give me the hook up in the blunt way every negro from my grandmama to my lil cuz would say, "put me on" "hold me down if I get in trouble." Nothing wrong in my eyes at all.
You can miss me with that Will.I.Am.Popmusic.Not.Hip.Hop.
Give me Nas instead.
Or are you saying hip-hop has no place in politics?
We had a discussion about this over email at work today...your federal tax dollars at work...but I digress...I personally believe that as long as this doesn't get into the wrong hands this is pretty harmless. It might actually serve to get some of the population that has been completely underrepresented in politics in the past out to vote....However once Fox news gets ahold of this it could be tragic. They are just salivating to find something to use against Obama. Which is just a symbol of how absurd this election has been. The fact that they have to look to things like preachers sermons and potentially rap lyrics to find something to use against a presidential candidate shows just how scared America is that this whole black president thing might just happen. In our discussion on this subject we brought up how rap really needs to be listened to in context by people with a trained ear to understand where the rapper is coming from. An untrained ear will take everything out of context and misinterpret the whole meaning. The same thing could probably be said of certain preachers sermons...
I said today In Oh Hayle Naw that at this rate the Obama campaign is just going to have to spend part of it's budget on PAYING certain motherfuckers to just shut he fuck up (from "religious leaders" to the rest of the coondamonium)
Bob- Actually, I was thinking of that analogy. Except I was thinking of a local politican....would I be doing him or her a favor by discussing them, if I KNEW that the local media would hold some of the more debaucherous or inflammatory things I have said up as evidence that my chosen candiate was not a good pick?
I hate Will.I.Am, but I know that he can make a song about Obama that *probably* wouldn't end up as fodder for Fox News, which DID, in fact, go in on the Ludacris song. It's not that Hip-Hop can't be political, it's just about knowing when and how to use Hip-Hop effectively. Frankly, if anyone is irrelevant these days, it's Luda! I don't think he is really gonna get that many folks to vote. Conversely, his song gave the right-wing media yet another chance to dwell on Hip-Hop, this time to the potential detriment of Obama.
And Obama was, once again, forced to release a statement publicly condemning a Black male supporter of his. You think he likes having to do that? But come ON, look at the song. He called Hillary Clinton an irrelvant bitch. What good could that have done? And he implied that he would do something that may warrant needing a presidential pardon. Sounding like a corny-ass fake thug.
We tend to defend ignorance with phrases like "in your face", "brash" and "honest"....when perhaps the appropriate term would be "uninformed", "poorly executed" and "thoughtless".
Why does Ludacris matter? How is he a reflection on Obama? This is a double standard and people just don't see it.
If Blacks thought every statement from the KKK was like speaking for McCain they would think we are crazy. If he had to explain what Carrot Top said about Obama wouldn't you just let it go because you think it's stupid.
Why does his opinion even count. His Damn name is Ludacris.
OMG!!! All the cool kids are turning Black In America into an adjective!
Well ladies and gentiles...the shith has hitteth the proverbial fan..."Ludacris' song points to dilemma for Obama"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25963955/
"He, for political purposes, has to separate himself from anything controversially black."
"Controversially Black"?
I'm gonna incorporate that into my repertoire of colloquialisms.
It is really bad that Obama has to defend himself on any comment/idea/media blurb that is even related to "a Black issue". I am sure they will be saying he helped Rev. James T Meeks with the school boycott.
I can't believe that so many people feel this way. This is what I call 'Black On Black' crime, fa real.
Luda isn't saying anything new that hasn't already been said. Some of us (read: MOST) have said these SAME things and you know it. So why come down on an ARTIST for echoing these same sentiments?? Isn't that one quality we look for in a good artist - to express themselves honestly, convey emotions (whether good and bad), and often be a VOICE for those who might not have such a medium to express themselves?? Artists like James Brown, John Lennon, Public Enemy, and a host of others come to mind when it comes to speaking for a segment of society whether their beliefs were popular or not. What's the difference between what they did and Chris Bridges' lyrics in this one song?
I swear niggas are QUICK to throw each other under the bus.
Check my post:
http://my2cents-sense.blogspot.com/2008/08/politrix-are-for-kids.html
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