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        <![CDATA[ Politics Unusual: Hip Hop&#39;s Hopes for Obama

By: Chris Lighty


http://www. huffingtonpost.
com/chris-lighty/politics-unusual-hip-hops_b_118270. html



First off, for the HuffPost readers who don&#39;t know me; I&#39;m the manager behind 50 Cent, LL Cool
J, Puffy, Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot.

I help them put together their deals with major brands from Vitamin Water to Henkel, Procter &amp; Gamble and
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			<description><![CDATA[ I LOVE THE CHARISMATIC APPROACH OBAMA IS USING AND HOPE IS NOT A BAD THING. LETS US TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT HIS RECORD WITH A REALISTIC THOUGHT. BY THIS I MEAN TO
SAY...&#39;AN OPTIMIST BELIEVES THIS THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS; AND THE PESSIMIST FEARS THIS IS TRUE.&quot; AS A REALIST I WOULD BE POSITIONED IN THE
MIDDLE. IF WE LOOK AT HIS RECORD FROM THE BLACK PERSPECTIVE...OBAMA HAS DISTANCED HIMSELF FROM ALL INDEPENDENT BLACK LEADERS...MR. LIGHTY IS NOT A INDEPENDENT
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			<description><![CDATA[ I think if Obama wants to connect with hip-hop culture pointing out some of the positive authorship, and literature that hip-hop produces might been seen as a
more &quot;mature&quot; or appropriate medium for exultation. Even in that he doesn&#39;t want to be hit with the ultra-liberal tag so I agree it can all wait.
A good way to outreach young voters is through the black church. Nine times out of ten a voting age church member does vote. It goes hand in hand, the church
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