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CNN commentator Angela Rye asked Biden's running mate, who's "the best rapper alive?"
"Tupac," Harris replied.
Rye pointed out that Tupac is no longer alive, having died in 1996.
"I keep doing that," the California senator chuckled nervously while frantically scanning the room in an apparent effort to find the name of another rapper somewhere.
She couldn't think of one.
She's older - I get it... plenty of older rappers are still alive. She couldn't name one?............
I don't get it. What would bee wrong with revealing that you do not follow rap music and don't know any rappers?
That would be the case with me. I don't follow any contemporary music. Never have, even when I was in my 20's.
Seems like she could give some sort of intelligent answer to the question instead of stumbling around like she had done something wrong.
I don't like her.
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Well, that rips it for me. A woman in her fifties who can't name the best contemporary rapper of all time with split second recall is definitely unfit to run for office.
Have rappers suddenly become one of the cornerstones of conservative thought? I thought people who are descendants of slaves sort of invented rap. Wouldn't that kind of invalidate rap to y'all rather than elevating it to such high status?
Why don't reporters ever ask Trump "Who's the best rapper alive?"
I can't name a rapper myself, so I guess I'll just go kill myself now and not later.
Why don't they? Oh yeah, it was a softball question ... they don't ask him softball questions like they do Biden and Harris, even Hillary had often been asked softball questions during her campaign.
At least Trump would have been able to answer that question. He personally knows some, or many, rappers. No doubt that if the rappers, including Snoop Dogg, had been asked, pre-2015, if they considered Trump a friend they would have said yes. Many entertainers were friends of Trump, until they had to be pro-Hillary and anti-Trump so that they could appease the Left and continue getting the work. Who knows, maybe Biden had told Snoop Dogg that if he didn't vote for Hillary, back in the day, then he wasn't really black.
I don't get it. What would bee wrong with revealing that you do not follow rap music and don't know any rappers?
That would be the case with me. I don't follow any contemporary music. Never have, even when I was in my 20's.
Seems like she could give some sort of intelligent answer to the question instead of stumbling around like she had done something wrong.
I don't like her.
Because she would then come off as a member of the elite and not a woman of the people (of color)
CNN commentator Angela Rye asked Biden's running mate, who's "the best rapper alive?"
"Tupac," Harris replied.
Rye pointed out that Tupac is no longer alive, having died in 1996.
"I keep doing that," the California senator chuckled nervously while frantically scanning the room in an apparent effort to find the name of another rapper somewhere.
She couldn't think of one.
She's older - I get it... plenty of older rappers are still alive. She couldn't name one?
What the hell does that have to do with being Vice President?
If she was running for vice-president of Rhino Records, I could see where the question might be relevant.
I mention that because Kurtis Blow was on that label. You know, The Message, The Breaks (he was with Grandmaster Flash).
What the hell does that have to do with being Vice President?
If she was running for vice-president of Rhino Records, I could see where the question might be relevant.
I mention that because Kurtis Blow was on that label. You know, The Message, The Breaks (he was with Grandmaster Flash).
If you accept the theory that the CCN commentator threw a softball then it comes with the intent was to show that Senator Harris is one of us. "With us" as the Rolling Stone magazine weekly feature would say. Only being a decade younger than the candidate she didn't appreciate that back in the day there were more Pat Boone fans than Elvis fans and the same type of societal shift happened with the commentator's popular music.
Now with rappers the politician faces possible trouble because of the sexual, imagery, gangsta lyrics and even the pushing of Nation of Islam and Nations of Gods and Earths theology by members of rap royalty whose lyrics would be pulled as a weapon against a politician who named the wrong person as a favorite.
While someone on the pro side would show spiritual Uncle Snoop playing with Martha Stewart and anti side will show a video him with Suge Knight issuing a public threat at an awards ceremony back in the past
Well, that rips it for me. A woman in her fifties who can't name the best contemporary rapper of all time with split second recall is definitely unfit to run for office.
Have rappers suddenly become one of the cornerstones of conservative thought? I thought people who are descendants of slaves sort of invented rap. Wouldn't that kind of invalidate rap to y'all rather than elevating it to such high status?
Why don't reporters ever ask Trump "Who's the best rapper alive?"
I can't name a rapper myself, so I guess I'll just go kill myself now and not later.
I can't think of modern rappers. I would have to go back to Run DMC as the closest thing.
But its not just Black culture. Lots of young white kids like rappers. I just like 60s-80s music.
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