This doesn’t really have anything to do with the election, but it’s kind of related (and slightly horrifying), since getting poor nations to catch up in technology is an important issue that the next president will have face in light of rising technological inequality exacerbating already existing poverty conditions – Microsoft Battles Low-Cost Rival for Africa (WSJ).
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Lyrical sample: “I’ma get loose like a pair of pajamas/I speak through these switches, spit like Obama/Trying to get rich without guns and the scanner.”
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Lyrical sample: “Lil Mama, try to bring up on this block long time like oldtimers/And though it’s still for good ’cause like Obama, Put my Girls on.”
Lyrical sample: “I don’t usually get chicks used to me,/That’s just prove to be too much drama/But girl I wanna meet your mama,/Make her say ‘bout time just like Obama.”
Lyrical sample: “Kaplow, its bigger than George Bush and Osama/Or if we ready for a black president named Obama/I’m tryin to fight my own indoctrination/They think they can stop an Atheist by sayin’ he’s prayin to Satan.”
In this blog, we’ve noted a number of parallels between rappers & politicians. So it’s inevitable that, in light of the recent Palin debacle featuring the RNC picking up 150k in Saks/Neiman bills for shawty, I am reminded of TI’s single “Whatever You Like” off his October album Paper Trail, with lyrics that eerily mirror Palin’s situation:
TI drops high praise for his girl: “Shawty you da hottest, love the way you drop it/Brain so good (good), swore you went to college.”
And rewards her as such: “Ya ain’t gotta downgrade you can get what I get/My chick could have what she want/And go in any store for any bag she want.”
Seriously now, after listening to the song a couple times, who can blame Palin for accepting a few new threads? Only half-witted haters, I guess.
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Lyrical sample: “Wait till they see my whip appear, that’s what I call whip appeal/It’s the Barack O-baller, I know she tryna holler.”
Lyrical sample: “Standing in front of the judge with no honor/My raps unite the people like Obama.”
Lyrical sample: “Hov & Nas, Beanie Sigel against Jadakiss/More like Obama versus Hillary/Nothing like an intelligent black man against a woman.”
This is awesome: “Before long, the third annual show was shaping up to be as much of a Barack Obama rally as an awards ceremony.” More on the BET Awards here.