Here is the third in my trilogy of hip hop/Obama articles, titled “How Obama Played the Hip Hop Community,” now up at Huffington Post.  In the wake of the recent revelations that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are actively spying on American citizens, I decided to revisit the idea of Obama as a “hip hop president.”  Here I argue that Obama essentially used hip hop to get elected so that he could pursue an agenda that is far from what the movement stands for.

Update: According to William F. Buckley’s nephew, Brent Bozell, I am a “real radical.” Of course, this is coming from a guy who said on Fox that Obama looked like a “skinny ghetto crackhead.”  To see the kind of audience he speaks to, just have a look at the comments below his article.  In-your-face, not-trying-to-hide-it racism.