Aiight … so the chorus is a little corny. But the verses are straight. And the video is very well done. And damn homie – it’s Friday. I had to post it! Obama ’08!!!

‘Rappers’ need to be super quiet on Barack,’ Scarface’ says, or critics will ‘smash on him because of what somebody else said.’ He’s on fire in the streets. Kids and adults alike are wearing bootleg T-shirts emblazoned with his face and phrases. Approximately 95% of the hip-hop community is singing his praises. And yet his appeal is just as strong in other parts of the country and the world: His remarks resonate from Chicago to Compton, from Brooklyn’s Marcy projects to Marseille, France.

In a scenario that would have been nearly impossible to imagine four years ago, we’re talking about the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. “He’s gonna win,” LL Cool J told MTV News as a matter of fact, as if the outcome of this fall’s presidential election were already a foregone conclusion. “We need to support Barack Obama and his quest for the Oval Office.” (more…)

Saw this on CNN news a while back, but couldn’t find it on YouTube until this morning.

Ludacris’ new song, “Politics as Usual,” may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. And for good reason: It points up the dilemma facing the nation’s potential first black president, who wants the support of the influential hip-hop community but needs to steer clear of the controversy so commonly associated with its music.

Ludacris’ “Politics as Usual” alludes to an imminent victory for Obama by handing out major put-downs to his rivals. It dismisses Hillary Rodham Clinton as a vice presidential candidate — “that (expletive) is irrelevant”_ and says presumed Republican nominee John McCain doesn’t belong in “any chair unless he’s paralyzed.” (more…)

A couple weeks back, Immortal Technique pointed out in an Al Jazeera interview how the media makes Barack Obama go through what he referred to as “Toby Moments,” where they force Obama to publicly denounce his supporters. Well, it is happening again today, as the Obama campaign has criticized Ludacris for the track Politics as Usual off the “Gangsta Grillz: The Preview” mixtape.

After listening to the song, I can’t really figure out why. Maybe because he called Hillary a bitch? Maybe because he called Bush a horrible president? Or maybe because everything he said is true? In any case, in support of Ludacris I have decided to name Politics as Usual this week’s hip-hop track of the week. Click below to listen:

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And follow along with the lyrics after the break – just to see how rediculous Obama’s newest “Toby Moment” really is. (more…)

New York rapper Nas has joined a protest against FOX News. Citing what he calls “race baiting” and “Obama smears” by FOX, Nas will join ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org to deliver more than 620,000 petition signatures demanding that the network end its “pattern of racist attacks against black Americans,” among them presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.

In a statement to media, Nas, ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org announced the petition will be delivered to FOX’s Manhattan offices on July 23 at 2 p.m. ET. In joining the protest, Nas cites FOX’s portrayal of the Obamas as outsiders, as well as an on-screen graphic referring to Michelle Obama as “Obama’s baby mama” and the confusing of Obama and Osama by a pundit, who joked that they should both be assassinated. In February, Bill O’Reilly talked about a “lynching party” to deal with Michelle Obama. (more…)

It is about time for Hillary to make her graceful exit …

After a long campaign that has been credited by many pundits for effectively transcending the race issue, Senator Barack Obama has now directly confronted the delicate topic. Following a mainstream media firestorm about recently-publicized and reprehensible comments from Obama’s former church pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the senator delivered a highly anticipated and powerful speech on race relations in America Tuesday in Philadelphia.

Moreover, it was the most courageous and brutally honest discussion about race that I have ever heard from a politician in my lifetime – let alone one running for President. (more…)

Russell Simmons has been pushing young people to vote, but for a while there, it was looking as if the music industry heavyweight would have trouble casting his own ballot. Not anymore.

The hip-hop mogul said Sunday he is endorsing Barack Obama for president, inspired by the diversity among the Illinois senator’s supporters. Obama has built an unprecedented national movement of people from all ethnic, racial, political, social and economic backgrounds, Simmons said in a news release. (more…)

In what I find to be the most shocking story so far in this long presidential campaign, the Secret Service reportedly ordered the Dallas Police Department to stop screening a large crowd for weapons at a Barack Obama rally last week. The mere thought of such a decision is reprehensible, and the conflicting explanations that have been put forth by federal and local officials since the rally are equally troubling.

And to my amazement, mainstream media has continued to perpetuate irrelevant health care plan disagreements between Clinton and Obama, as well as a low-on-the-facts sex story about McCain, all while barely touching on this appalling breach of national security. (more…)