Darling Nicky

Today, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barak Obama denounced Ludacris’ song ”Politics Obama is Here”. In the song Ludacris calls Hillary Clinton a bitch and says that the only chair that John McCain belongs in is in a wheelchair. Sigh… Here we go again with another Obama supporter taking things a bit too far, and Obama gets slammed for something that he didn’t even say. Granted Obama was very quick on the draw to make a statement through his campaign before anyone could scrutinize him for being associated to people with opinions that may or may not be his.

I can’t help but to feel bad for Obama, though. He’s had to denounce his former spiritual counselor and friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright, then the church that Wright gave the speech at and that Obama attended. Then he’s had to separate himself from Islam when people started confusing Obama with Osama and mentioning that his middle name Hussein is a Muslim name, alienating his Muslim supporters while showing that he is “a friend of Israel”. He now has to denounce what rapper Ludacris says about his Republican rival for president and his former Democratic rival. Give him a break people!

Not only is this a bad time to make a song like this when a lot of Hillary’s female supporters had a hard time getting over Hillary conceding the nomination, but this is the time where the Democratic party is trying to pull together and unify after some heated words of Hillary supporters *coughHarrietChristiancough* and threats of voting for McCain instead of Obama in place of Hillary. This song is one more thing that the right can use against Obama and sensationalize to those who still don’t know who they will vote for come November and those who are uninformed and easily swayed. They’ll use this to say that Obama is not for unifying the country; he’s sexist, ageist, and elitist, even though the words of the song are not his, but those of a rap artist’s who happens to support the Illinois senator.

I do hope that hip hop continues to become political and put their support behind a candidate that has stances on the issues they agree with, but can you lay off the mysoginstic and down right unnecessary lyrics, especially when the presidential race is so close. We’re looking at two people that at the beginning of the primaries these two were underdogs and no one thought they would be presumptive nominees, but now here they are, and it’s still either one’s race to claim. I don’t want to say that hip hop artists shouldn’t have an opinion, but there has to be some responsibility taken into consideration.

Here is a link to All Hip Hop where Ludacris’ “Politics: Obama is Here” is mentioned.