Obama to black voters: Barack Gon’ Give It to Ya
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| Badass Barack Obama gives his props to his bros during a smoke break behind the Apollo Theatre. |
Responding to speculation by rapper/actor DMX that Barack Obama “ain’t that nigga’s name,” the Democratic presidential hopeful vowed Friday to make a renewed effort to reach out to the nation’s hip-hop population.
“The time has come,” Obama said, raising his right hand at a campaign rally in Baltimore’s Upper Fells Point neighborhood, “for us to stop … drop … shut ‘em down … and open up shop.”
DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, claimed in a recent interview with XXL Magazine that he had never heard of Obama. The multiplatinum-selling recording artist also ridiculed the senator’s name, saying in part, “Ima tell this nigga when I see him, ‘Stop that bullshit.’ … Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.’” (Editor’s note: DMX really said this. Google that shit.)
Obama, who counts Bob Dylan and Johann Sebastian Bach among his favorite artists, admitted his tastes in music and culture differ significantly from those he hopes to reach. But he added that should have no bearing on whether he can “give a dog a bone.”
“I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas,” Obama said, “yet niggas want to try. Niggas want to lie. Then, niggas wonder why niggaz want to die.
“All I know is pain. All I feel is rain. How can I maintain, with mad shit on my brain?”
Obama’s “blackness” — and his willingness to embrace it — has been brought into question several times during his campaign. Most recently, Obama condemned the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his pastor, for a widely broadcast sermon in which Wright criticized the United States for oppressing black people.
Obama retracted that condemnation Friday.
“Shit, a nigga tried to diss you,” Obama said to the mostly white press corps covering the event. “That’s why you laying on your back, looking at the roof of the church. Preacher telling the truth, and it hurts.”
Told by one reporter that Sen. Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the race for the Democratic nomination, likely would use his new tact against him, Obama became visibly upset.
“I’m tired of weak ass niggas whining over puss that don’t belong to them,” he said, his voice rising. “Fuck is wrong with them? They fuck it up for real niggas like my mans and them who get it on on the strength of the hands with them, man.”
Obama then stormed off the stage, telling all his “big ballers” to “meet me outside, meet me outside, meet me outside.”
DMX could not be reached late Friday because he’s never heard of a phone.
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