{"id":71,"date":"2008-09-09T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/8beats\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:39:38","slug":"10-ludacris-politics-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/10-ludacris-politics-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"10. Ludacris: &#8220;Politics as Usual&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ludacris&#8217; self-congratulatory single pointedly disses Obama&#8217;s rivals (mildly, I think, all things considered I&#8217;ve heard worse on SNL) as well as prematurely celebrates Obama&#8217;s victory in the election. No wonder Obama couldn&#8217;t publicly endorse the track!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/8beats\/files\/2008\/08\/ludacris-politics-as-usual-obama-is-here.mp3\">ludacris-politics-as-usual-obama-is-here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyrical sample: &#8220;With a slot in the president&#8217;s iPod Obama shattered &#8217;em\/Said I handled his biz and I&#8217;m one of his favorite rappers\/Well, give Luda a special pardon if I&#8217;m ever in the slammer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ludacris&#8217; self-congratulatory single pointedly disses Obama&#8217;s rivals (mildly, I think, all things considered I&#8217;ve heard worse on SNL) as well as prematurely celebrates Obama&#8217;s victory in the election. No wonder Obama couldn&#8217;t publicly endorse the track! ludacris-politics-as-usual-obama-is-here Lyrical sample: &#8220;With a slot in the president&#8217;s iPod Obama shattered &#8217;em\/Said I handled his biz and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beats","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}