Poet Pimp Takes On Obama
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., found himself criticized by one of rap and hip-hop’s leading producers, Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons, who challenged the presidential candidate to stop criticizing rappers’ lyrics and start working to improve the urban-American world that inspires them.
“My response to Sen. Obama is that you have to talk about the poverty and ignorance that creates such a climate that the poets can talk like that,” Simmons told ABC News. “And all the politicians owe them an education and an opportunity for a better life and maybe they’ll say something better.”
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April 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Why are we giving so much credence to “poets” just because they’re black? I used to *be* a damned poet, and believe me, there is no one you want LESS to be speaking for a general demographic. Poets are whiny, self-absorbed asshats almost by definition. It’s like saying, “Let’s get Little Lord Fauntleroy over there to lead us into battle–I like his fluffy pants!!”