2008 January

I have been wondering about who exactly is Mike Huckabee?
No one has been able to explain it to me until today.
He is one of those hood Republicans. Not a regular republican.
But one of those down home, chicken, ribs and raccoon Republicans.

Few of Huckabee?s critics have actually come out and said what many of them think. The language is coded, as it usually is with class and race in this country. The Wall Street Journal, the anti-tax jihadists at the Club For Growth, the National Review ? these pillars of Old School Republicanism have signaled that Huckabee is Not One of Ours. But they?re careful to say it?s not about class, because, of course ? it is!

Class war is forbidden in the Republican playbook. But Huckabee, despite an inept last week of campaigning, has forced the Republican party to face the Wal-Mart shoppers that they have long taken advantage of. He?s here. He?s Gomer. And he?s not going away.

Not none of that fake Bush 41/43 Texas by the way of Connecticut. But. Huckabee has actually LIVED in a trailer Park AND has eaten raccoon.

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The word on the street is that the people feel him,

Huckabee has been telling people in Iowa that Republican higher-ups would never let him become the nominee because he ?has a hick last name.? Wow. I?d like to be in on that focus group.

I find it interesting that he brings class diversity,
albeit, by default, to the forefront presidential debate.

Romney has his work cut out for him.

I suspect that the evil ads will start flying in about TWO seconds.

I wonder what is going through Hillary’s head right now.
Oh. Perhaps it won’t be Obama/ Gore ’08 but

Obama Bloomberg ’08.

Imagine the history books.

A Jewish Dude and a Black dude, in The White House.

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Nas Likes Himself and His Fans as well.

“I’m hyped right now,” the usually laid-back MC told MTV News backstage approximately an hour before showtime. He was itching to get onstage, especially since he was trying a couple of new additions to his show: a small live band, and legendary producer Marley Marl backing him as the show DJ.

“We’ve been practicing out in California,” Marley ? showing no sign of having suffered a heart attack earlier this year ? said as he waited to get behind the ones and twos.

As showtime grew closer, Nas revealed he wanted to do a very short run of venues across the country ? he’s performing New Year’s Eve in L.A. ? because he did not put out an album this year as promised. He didn’t want to leave his fans with nothing.

As the show started, Marley Marl cued up the classic record he made with MC Shan, “The Bridge.” Nas walked out wearing shades, a white T-shirt with a peace sign on his back, a gold rope chain and a New York Mets hat that he quickly threw into the crowd. Marl and the band also all wore white tops and Mets hats.

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Chuck D wants to run Def Jam.
They would let Flavor Run it before they let him.
“After 10 years looking on the collapsing of the record industry, and upon hearing the news of Jay-Z stepping down from Def Jam, I would throw my name into the hat of somebody who understands how the hell Universal should establish the name-brands they acquire with stockholders money,” Chuck D told AllHipHop.com

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I ain’t stupid. I noticed how CLEMENS is getting the
UBER PASS on the steroid allegations. Here are the
results when you google Clemens and Steroids.
Here the Bonds and Steroids results. They appear, gp, to be similar.

But I noticed one major difference.

Where is the Clemens expose book?

Why aren’t journalist clamoring to write and
cash in on this story?

Hmmp. Look like a little baseball Elvis going on to me.

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Only on MM do you get Huckabee, Steroids and Chuck D.
God Bless America.

Obama surprised you, hunh?

What would be your move if you were Hillary?

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Kelefa uses Turf Talk to illustrate the precarious position
emcees are in when it comes to marketing and promotion
and getting LARGE for independents,

And then there is Turf Talk, a loudmouthed upstart from Vallejo, Calif., who made arguably the year?s most exciting hip-hop album, ?West Coast Vaccine (The Cure).? It came out through Sick Wid? It Records, which is run by his cousin, the rapper E-40. (The album was released through a distribution deal with Navarre, which sold its music distribution business to Koch in May.) And despite Turf Talk?s flamboyant rhymes, the album has pretty much remained a secret. Without a national radio hit or even a proper music video, Turf Talk has promoted the CD mainly through West Coast regional shows, from San Diego to Tacoma, Wash.

Reached by telephone at his home in Concord, Calif., Turf Talk tried to put the best spin on a mixed-up year. ?The independent game is starting to shine again,? he said. But when pressed, he said he would love to cross over to the mainstream, speaking in the third person: ?Turf Talk wants to be known all across the world.?

Kelefa acknowledges the difficulties of being
independent when he writes,

It?s easy to romanticize Turf Talk?s grass-roots approach: his do-it-yourself video shoot, his evident pride in how much he has accomplished on his own, his commitment to the family business. But for him the promise of exposure and the long shot at stardom are too tempting to reject.

?I love the independent money,? he said. ?I?m living good, I drive nice cars. But right now, if you asked me, I?d say, ?Turf Talk wants to go major.? Because you can always come back to independent.?

Sales are down all over, but hip-hop has been hit particularly hard. Rap sales fell 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and that trend seems to be continuing. It?s the inevitable aftermath, perhaps, of the genre?s vertiginous rise in the 1990s, during which a series of breakout stars ? Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, the It is a well-known fact that men often feel embarrassed about this medical condition and instead of going out learningworksca.org buy cialis of penis). If you have any queries regarding their services or need their viagra without prescription learningworksca.org assistance, you can contact them to get it repaired or replaced as the case may be, the most normal. In fact, in commander viagra bought that most cases, it’s probably still a very good idea. On the other hand, Kamagra is a general ED drug and it is available at reduced price. cheapest levitra and Kamagra work well in ED and impotence treatment. Wallace.”>Notorious B.I.G. ? figured out that they could sell millions without shaving off their rough edges. By 1997 the ubiquity of Puff Daddy helped cement hip-hop?s new image: the rapper as tycoon. Like all pop-music trends, like all economic booms, this one couldn?t last.

And this statement was observant if not downright depressing,

Eventually, a (new?) group of executives will find a business model that doesn?t depend on shiny plastic discs, or digital tracks bundled together to approximate them. But for now the major league is starting to look a lot like the minor one. And in ways good and bad and utterly unpredictable, rappers may have to reconsider their place in the universe, and their audience. Some will redouble their commitment to nonsense, like Project Pat. Some will wallow in their misery, like Prodigy. Some will merely revel in their own loudmouthiness, like Turf Talk, hoping someone will pay attention. But if sales keep falling, more and more rappers will have to face the fact that they aren?t addressing a crowd, just a sliver of one.

“More rappers will have to face the fact that they aren?t
addressing a crowd, just a sliver of one”??!?!?!?!?!?!

Oh. And the fact that the music industry is suing their customers
is downright despicable.

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I wonder how the music will change when emcees recognize that
that they only have a fraction of their previous fan base?

Will more emcees start driving buses? Resort to street pharmaceuticals?

OR.

Actually start re-building a fan base, one person at a time?

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Huckabee is a Hood Republican

Turf Talk Gets NY Times Love