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“It’s true. I have a little Jay-Z…and Wiz Khalifa and the rest on there.”
“I have a question I want to ask you, Mr. President,” I venture, once I catch his attention.
“Sure,” the president says.
“Kanye or Jay-Z?”
The president smiles. “Jay-Z,” he says.
“Although I like Kanye,” Obama continues, with an easy smile. “He’s a Chicago guy. Smart. He’s very talented.” He is displaying his larger awareness of the question, looking relaxed, cerebral but friendly, alive to the moment, waiting for me to get to the heart of the matter.
“Even though you called him a jackass?,” I ask.
“He is a jackass,” Obama says, in his likable and perfectly balanced modern-professorial voice. “But he’s talented.”
American Mozart
Intense, emotional, and frequently out of control, the hip-hop superstar Kanye West allowed his antics to turn him into a national joke and to earn him the criticism of two American presidents. Would a massive concert tour with his friend and rival Jay-Z offer the troubled rapper a taste of redemption—or disaster?
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“I’m a brother, man. You can’t be doing that to me. I know the Cubes from the Ts.”
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Straight Outta Dunwoody, Hardcore Rap About a Gated Community
Dunwoody… Georgia?
Brooklyn Rapper Waxes Poetic About Welfare Abuse
Conservatives have been up in arms all week over a rapper who seemingly glorifies the decadent lifestyle of food stamps and welfare. Stanley Lafleur, aka rapper Mr EBT (H-Man), watched as the video for his single “My EBT,” which joyously depicts him using his government-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer card to pay for junk food, went viral this week after Drudge Report and other conservative bloggers held it up as The Reason This Country Is Going To Hell (not the champagne toasts). But Lafleur tells the News that conservatives just don’t get his message: “I couldn’t believe people are hating on me like I’m rubbing the benefit card in the face of taxpayers. They don’t get it. My video is a parody.”
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Anne Hathaway’s Lil’ Wayne Style Paparazzi Rap
C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb interviews economic rap video creators Russ Roberts and John Papola on this week’s Q&A program
Russ Roberts, Economics Professor at George Mason University and host of the weekly podcast series “EconTalk,” and John Papola, a filmmaker and entertainment marketing executive. They have collaborated on the creation of two rap videos about economics (The first, “Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem). The most recent is called “Fight of the Century.” The rap videos cover the contrasting beliefs of economists John Maynard Keynes and Frederick Hayek. Topics covered in the rap videos include government spending, interest rates, and consumption of goods. The two videos combined have had over 3.3 million viewings on YouTube. In addition to hosting a podcast and teaching, Russ Roberts is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and is a contributor to the blog “Cafe Hayek.” He is the former director of the Center for Experiential Learning at Washington University in Saint Louis and the author of three books. John Papola is former creative director at Spike TV. He has also worked at MTV and Nickelodeon. His blog is called “But What the Hell Do I Know.”
Notorious B.I.G at 17 in a freestyle battle.
What if the Tea Party was Black?
Jay-Z and Eminem Perform “Renegade” On David Letterman
Q-Tip Submitted Beats to Notorious B.I.G.
Q-Tip talks about submitting beats to Notorious B.I.G. and hearing a version of “Nasty Boy”, which sampled Prince’s “Kiss” and ultimately succumbed to sample clearance issues.
