*Facepalm*

“Three things taught me conservative love: Jesus, Ronald Regan, plus Atlas Shrugged.”
-Young Cons

According to a June 10th, 2009 broadcast on Fox News, The Young Cons is a rap duo made up of politically minded Dartmouth basketball players. They have been touring the conservative hot spots and television broadcasts for the last week, including Fox & Friends and Huckabee. Their apparent aim is to dissuade people from the belief that liberalism is the younger, more hip movement.

I’m pretty sure this video will do the trick.

Pictured above: Soulja Toy and Chuck Hamlet

Today’s hip-hop landscape looks a lot like the lunchroom at an urban high school. What began as one thing, has grown into another, much bigger, more fractured thing altogether. While the casual observer might look at the rap genre as one thing, the more dedicated listener will note the distinct sub-categories that the music has to offer. Each category, while separate, will contain a bit of overlap for two reasons. First, each artist is influenced by the art of their contemporaries and predecessors. Secondly, what makes the product that each artist creates palatable for large audiences are the cords of similarity within the biographies of the entertainers and their fans. These shared experiences, stories, and viewpoints are the intangible elements that create the culture of hip-hop.

Here are the categories and their most notable figures: Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Steele may soon be required to hand over his token black person card if he doesn’t stop this nonsense hip-hop outreach that’s brought him under fire with the GOP. Steele has been trying to lure minorities into the Republican Party, but only if Rush Limbaugh and Joe the Plumber promise not to chop off his nuts. Republicans have lots to say about Steele’s attempt to sell conservatism to hip-hop, and none of it is pretty. Here, here, take a peep:

North Carolina’s national committeewoman, Ada Fisher:
“I don’t want to hear anymore [sic] language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn’t going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish.”

Joe the Plumber:
“Unfortunately we have a chairman up there who wants to redefine conservatism; he wants to make it hip hop, put it in a new package and sell it,”

Klansman Katon Dawson, who lost the RNC Chairmanship race to Steele, aka the man who said that desegregation was the worst thing that ever happened to him, is supposedly calling for a no-confidence vote to overthrow Steele from the White Party, since he’s apparently failed in his 5 weeks as RNC leader. Forget Steele and all this weird stuff about engaging a more diverse crowd, Confederate General Dawson is exactly what the GOP needs to move the party right back into 1902.

Why yes, it’s none other than the legendary Chuck D dukin’ it out with Rush Limbaugh’s “Balls of Steele” on DL Hughley Breaks the News.

Former GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee (remember that guy?) now has a talk-show on Fox News, which enables him to distract Socialist America while his weed carriers gather emails and secretly raise funds for his 2012 presidential bid. Huckabee interviewed Def Jam co-founder and oversized hat enthusiast Russell Simmons about hip-hop’s influence and the negative effects of cuss words like shit, bitch, and damn. Russell was all like, “Hey Mike, you should totally bookmark GlobalGrind.com.”

I see what you did there, Jeezy. Just in time for the inauguration.

Have you ever picked up a hot chick on MySpace? Good for you! Some of your fellow Americans are not that lucky (or brave), which is why it’s awesome that somebody took the time to break down a few of the types of black girls on the social networking site, like the One-Line chick who enjoys songs about poppin’ booty. It’s an interesting read.

4 Black Women You’ll Meet On Myspace [Blogxilla]

The tight jeans-rocking interns at MTV have unveiled their Best Songs of 2008 list and you won’t believe who’s at numero uno! Young Weezy F Baby!! Yesssirrr. Though “A Milli” came in at No.1, MTV has lost all credibility by failing to include the other 23,561 classic songs Weezy blessed us with this year. Does this guy need to change his name to Featuring Lil Wayne for people to respect his unparalleled mic skills. You say, “Well, Rizoh, they only had room for 33 songs,” I say “Expand the damn list, losers.” It’s not like you’ll run out of paper on the Internet.

• MTV’s Best Songs of 2008, In Bigger than Sound

It’s worth noting that, while the inclusion of every other song on the list was explained with a 200-word blurb, MTV was left speechless by the incomparable resplendence of “A Milli.” Yeah, Weezy does that to people.

A bunch of artists are upset that the wonderful folks in the Bush administration are using their music to create fear and disorient prisoners. Music by rockers like AC/DC and Queen are regularly employed by military personnel in detention centers as a torture weapon. Some prisoners confessed that the music drives them so crazy they feel like committing suicide. I don’t blame them. I, too, would rather die than listen to Britney Spears non-stop on full blast.

The prisoners aren’t the only ones complaining though:

Musicians are banding together to demand the U.S. military stop using their songs as weapons. A campaign being launched Wednesday has brought together groups including Massive Attack and musicians such as Tom Morello, who played with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave and is now on a solo tour. It will feature minutes of silence during concerts and festivals, said Chloe Davies of the British law group Reprieve, which represents dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees and is organizing the campaign.

Says Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails):

“It’s difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging than discovering music you’ve put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture.If there are any legal options that can be realistically taken they will be aggressively pursued, with any potential monetary gains donated to human rights charities.Thank GOD this country has appeared to side with reason and we can put the Bush administration’s reign of power, greed, lawlessness and madness behind us.”

I have one question: How come they don’t torture prisoners with hip-hop music? You would think that with all the talk about hip-hop being vile and offensive it would be their No.1 option for auditory assault. But if they ever run out of fear-inducing rock albums in Gitmo, I humbly recommend the entire Gravediggaz catalog.

Source: MSN