{"id":613,"date":"2013-01-23T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=613"},"modified":"2013-12-27T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T17:04:22","slug":"the-lupe-fiasco-hip-hop-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/01\/23\/the-lupe-fiasco-hip-hop-and-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lupe fiasco, hip hop, and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just wrote this piece–“Obama’s Honeymoon with Hip-Hop is Over<\/span><\/a><\/span>“–for\u00a0The New Republic<\/em>. \u00a0It is an extension of an article<\/span><\/a><\/span> I wrote for\u00a0The Guardian<\/em> over the summer, which traced the deteriorating relationship between the President and hip hop performers between 2008 and just before the 2012 election. \u00a0In this more recent article, I use the Lupe fiasco<\/a> from a couple of days ago to consider the frayed relationship that persists–and will probably continue to as long as Obama avoids the pressing issues facing African Americans and other people of color in the U.S. \u00a0A special thanks to author, activist, and Rap Sessions<\/span><\/a><\/span> CEO Bakari Kitwana for the last-minute interview.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> <\/span>I stumbled across some really thought-provoking commentary on this piece. \u00a0On Free Republic, which bills itself as a conservative site for “freedom loving people,” I found this insightful critique of hip hop music from someone with the handle patriotsblood<\/em>: “Hip-hop and rap, in my opinion, don\u2019t rise to the level of music, and are on the same level as other bodily sounds that do not emanate from the mouth.” I’ll keep reading more responses, but this is probably going to be my favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just wrote this piece–“Obama’s Honeymoon with Hip-Hop is Over“–for\u00a0The New Republic. \u00a0It is an extension of an article I wrote for\u00a0The Guardian over the summer, which traced the deteriorating relationship between the President and hip hop performers between 2008 and just before the 2012 election. \u00a0In this more recent article, I use the Lupe … Continue reading The Lupe fiasco, hip hop, and Obama<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}