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Home Front: Politix
'I'm Down With Hip-Hop,
2004-03-31
"I'm fascinated by Rap and Hip-Hop" said Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry during an MTV Choose or Loose forum. Offering up a heavy dose of street credibility, Kerry defended gangsta rap, freedom of speech and the realities of street life.
Must. Control. Self.......Bwahahahaha!!!!!
Kerry spoke with MTV's Gideon Yago and took questions from the audience last night in MTV's annual Choose or Loose forum. The youth voting movement this year endeavors to get 20 million new voters to the polls and impact what is projected to be a tight presidential race. The Boston-born heir by marraige to the Heinz Ketchup fortune, offered his perspective on rap music as the voice of the streets.
Getting real, talking to his home boys...Bwahahahaaaaaaaaa
"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important." Calling rap a "reflection of life", Kerry empathized with the struggles reflected in the music.
"I had to struggle, man. I had to fight my way from the jungles where the man sent me, I had to fight the fight back here against the powers that sent me there, while the FBI tried to put me and my brothers down. I had to fight till I scored me dis rich white ho, and now I'm fighten' to keep folks from finding out just who I be and taking it away from me. CAN YOU DIG IT?"
Posted by:Steve

#16  Fred Pruitt, nine more Americans died today.

The truth will set you free.
Posted by: Jughead   2004-03-31 10:18:38 PM  

#15  Fred Pruitt, nine more Americans died today.

The truth will set you free.
Posted by: Jughead   2004-03-31 10:18:38 PM  

#14  TGA, don't worry bro', they get elected here to - Clinton/Carter, heck we even elect them more then once!
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-03-31 10:06:01 PM  

#13  Come on tu3031, this is America! Every asshole can run for president!
Well, thinking about Germany... I better shut up!
Here they can even get elected.
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-03-31 8:22:57 PM  

#12  I'm fascinated by the fact that assholes like this actually get to run for President.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-03-31 8:16:59 PM  

#11  Could it be that Kerry... ummm... likes the "Gangsta Bitches"?

Don't ask me how I know... I have a big family!
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-03-31 7:26:12 PM  

#10  Kerry? Black? PLEASE!
Caught a glimpse of him on the news yesterday addressing a black church. If he ain't the whitest white boy I've ever seen.....
Say what you want about Clinton, but at least he looked comfortable around black people.
"Yo yo! I be John Effin' Kerry.....I do drive-thrus!"
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2004-03-31 7:22:03 PM  

#9  Is Lurch still trying to be the second black president?
I thought the African Americans told him to cut it out after his last effort!
Posted by: Jen   2004-03-31 7:10:01 PM  

#8  This article is NOT real. It is a FAKE!!!!

Uh... mmm... you mean it's NOT??? Oh. My. God.

Jesus, I'm glad I'm not a Democrat anymore. This bullshit would be embarrassing as hell.

Anybody remember the movie, Silver Streak, with Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor and Jill Clayburgh? Remember the scene in the train station mens' room where Wilder puts on blackface?

Imagine Kerry in that role. And imagine, he's being sincere...
Posted by: Dave D.   2004-03-31 5:33:33 PM  

#7  "I'm fascinated by Rap and Hip-Hop"

It's only fascinating in the sense that such mindless twaddle has somehow managed to popularize itself with a large majority of today's youth. Of course, when the expectations of the audience aren't all that high to begin with....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-03-31 5:32:19 PM  

#6  To see just how absurd this is -- or just for sheer naked fun -- run one of John Kerry's speeches through Snoop Dogg's "Shizzolator." Then try to imagine him delivering it in that haughty French Boston accent of his.

Posted by: Mike   2004-03-31 5:27:36 PM  

#5  I just bit my tongue laughing, DAMMIT! The only blacks JFK has around are the hired help. Maybe he was talking about all the homies out snowboarding in Ketchum, or windsurfing in Bawston hawbor? Looks like an effort to allow convicted felons to vote is comin' up?
Posted by: Frank G   2004-03-31 5:05:07 PM  

#4  "I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop."
>no your not, quit lyin' snow-flake.

"I think there's a lot of poetry in it."
>um, okay, I think it sucks mostly. Although I guess it does take talent to come up w/such works of art as "Bitch betta have my money" and "cop killer".

"There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it."
>aka -a lot of chest thumping by wanna be gangsters who don't know how to dress themselves. Grown men w/moniker's such as "P.Diddy", yeah I'm gonna give them a solid listen.

"And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important." Calling rap a "reflection of life"."

-whose life? Certainly not mine and certainly not Skerry's. Wait a minute, though I do like to kick it once in a while w/some ho's and a bottle of crys[tal].



Posted by: Jarhead   2004-03-31 4:54:07 PM  

#3  That's rich (no pun intended), coming from one of the whitest Brahmins on the planet.

Offering up a heavy dose of street credibility,

If that's what he's selling, who's buying it? Not this honky!
Posted by: Raj   2004-03-31 4:46:22 PM  

#2   MC Skershitzle.
Posted by: Lil Dhimmi   2004-03-31 4:46:22 PM  

#1  Maybe he thought they said "Crap and Flip-Flop"?
Posted by: Anonymous3975   2004-03-31 4:44:58 PM  

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