2. Jennifer Lopez supports Obama and has even met with him to talk about politics. Can this signal a career shift for the diva?
3. Nas and Young Jeezy teamed up for a politically charged rap then declared their support for Obama. Of course, this was after Jeezy told Vibe, “No disrespect to Barack, but I f-ck with John McCain.” He later claimed the magazine misconstrued his words.
4. On the remix of Ice Cube’s “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It,” Scarface raps, “I hope that Barack could pull the troops from Iraq.” This is utterly incisive political music, regardless of what Cube calls it.
5. Finally, there’s the now infamous track, “Politics,” by Ludacris. Calling Senator Hillary Clinton a “b-tch” and asserting that Jesse Jackson meant his derogatory comments about Obama on Fox News earlier this summer, Luda briefly reclaimed the type of political controversy for rap that Ice Cube and Public Enemy created regularly.
– forrest green III
