Ludacris's song "Obama is Here" caused an uproar in political blog forums from NPR to CBN's the Brody File
As for Miss Nina Parks:
Thank you Luda for stepping up and putting your current political beliefs out there. It's rare that Rapper's with in the mainstream will stand up and take a political stand in their music. Where I understand that expressing your political belief at dinner is unpolite and bad for digestion the air waves are a tool that we have in hip hop to reach our cultural mass. And if you are a rapper with no political beliefs then you aren't doing your part as an american citizen and you need to balance out your life.
Luda is right... "...The world is ready for change cause Obama is here..."
If people weren't ready for a new face for America then Obama wouldn't be in the running. His shear presents is testimony enough to the change in the American people. It's been a long time since English Protestants landed on Plymoth Rock trying to escape religious persecution and the monarchy. Since then America has established itself as an independent nation, developed it's own systematic government, had the slave trade using slave labor to build this nations industries for free, a civil war, womens lib, two world wars, vietnam, a civil rights movement, and now the oil wars. America has moved from fighting trying to build a nation where we are free to live the way we want to live to fighting to get more. All we have seen in the Bush Administration is a nation blinded by greed and gluttony and it reflects in it's people all the way down to the block boy. America obliterates it's competition and enemies by force. So the American people do the same thing in dealling with each other. America holds the celebrity in high regard just as long that celebrity perpetuates the illusion
The murder rate in Oakland is up 80% this year San Francisco is none the better. Last night's dinner conversation was my younger cousin (20) describing one of the most liberating nights of his life at a house party in San Jo that took an ugly turn when he found himself fleeing away from the party when gun shots broke out after someone had gotten stabbed.
This is normal conversation amongst people my age and demographic. Which is young urban adult of mixxed race.
Ludacris is an artist and apparently an effective business man as well as an active member in his community as well as an active member in a global community.
Something that I would like to aspire to with in my own career.
"The World is ready for change because Obamam is here..."
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