If I could wave a magic wand on New Year’s Eve, the notations I would place in southern voters’ minds as we enter the election year would involve understanding. Kandi from the Real Housewives of Atlanta was in a hip hop group with T.I.’s lady Tiny back in the day and they had a hit called [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hip hop’
2012 Political Season: Magic Wand and Understanding
Posted in politics, tagged austin scott, Conservatives, democrats, Georgia, GOP, hip hop, Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, Obama, republicans, sanford bishop, tea party on December 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Obama vs. Cain, the Black Women with White Men List and Other Insults
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Bill Clinton, Black college, Black women, Blacks, Congress, Fox News, Georgia, GOP, Herman Cain, hip hop, Michelle Obama, Obama, youth on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
People get and give insults in the South all day every day. If you have thin skin, you should move. These insults come to mind. The Michael Basiden Show’s list “8 Reasons Black Women Should Date White Men: First, Black Women should date whoever makes them happy and treats them well. But, the list from Basiden’s [...]
The Entitlement Mentality: Unlikely Allies Project
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, hip hop, Newt Gingrich, youth on September 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
An entertainer called Chapter recently released the satirical video “It’s Free, Swipe Yo EBT.” I was ticked off until I realized the song was a poor attempt at parody. But, the bigger questions are the social responsibility of so-called artists and the direct effect they have on the entitlement mentality. Warning: strong language If you [...]
Backwards Hip Hop: Make It Rain
Posted in politics, tagged hip hop, music, prison, rap, worldstarhiphop on July 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Is hip hop taking us backwards? I loved this art form in my youth but it seems (correct me if I am wrong) that young people are emulating the worst elements of society. Slaves wanted freedom and that freedom didn’t really come until the 1970s. At church Sunday, the pastor, a veteran of the struggle, [...]
Erykah Badu and Texas
Posted in African Americans, politics, tagged African Americans, Badu, hip hop, music, tea party, texas on March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Like Jill Scott, Angie Stone and Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu is a straight-up artist who puts a message in her music and compels us to think. Her new song “Window Seat” blew me away and even included a nod to blues guitar great Lightning Hopkins. I am proud to say that Hopkins has been featured on the [...]
Flow on the Mic: Hip Hop and Congressional Politics
Posted in politics, tagged Congress, Georgia, hip hop, Isakson, palin on October 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My friends and I talk about political candidates who can “flow.” We have adopted the term from the early days of hip hop…”Can the M.C. flow on the mic.” Many a well-intended candidate can’t flow in the sense that the they can’t present issues and solutions in a manner that compels the electorate to action. [...]
Young Cons rapping on Huckabee Show
Posted in politics, tagged Conservatives, hip hop, Huckabee, rap, Young Cons on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Blog contributor HBA said she saw Young Cons on the Fox channel. Megan Fox or Vivica Fox has her own channel and Huckabee has a show there. Kidding aside, it’s is cool that rapping as a medium grown from the streets of New York to every corner of the nation and globe. I have been [...]
Hard Times -Economic Recovery/Reminisce
Posted in politics, tagged Economy, hip hop on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The tough economic news keeps taking me back to “Hard Times” by Run DMC and “Black Cow” by Steely Dan for some reason. I had to put Brand Nubian on this list and TROY (They Reminisce Over You) from Pete Rock and C.L Smooth. That music had a really message. Of course, hip hop fans [...]
Rap, Hip Hop and Poetry
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, hip hop, rap on March 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When hop hip was born on the streets of New York, rhymes and dances drove the battles. As the genre traveled to the left coast, the world learned from Ice Cube, Dre and N.W.A. that south central L.A. was a powder keg ready to blow. Their music was real gangsters reflecting the unfortunate problems in [...]
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