1. Intro
2. David Banner, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli - Black President (Remix Pt. 1)
3. Barack Obama - Stand Up
4. Nas Speaks on Politics
5. Styles P & Cassidy - Make It Out
6. Jay-z Speaks The American Dream
7. Barack Obama - One Mic, One People
8. Russell Simmons Speaks on Obama
9. Joe Budden, Twista, John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change 2008
10. Angie Martinez - Yes We Need A Mixtape!!
11. Kanye West & Malik Yusef - Promised land
12. Wale, Rhymefest, Christina K, Royce 5?9 - Black President (Remix Pt. 2)
13. Barack Obama - My Life
14. Jay-Z - Lick A Shot
15. Russell Simmons on Change
16. Wyclef - Obama for President
17. Charles Hamilton - The Moment
18. Find Ur Dreams (interlude)
19. George Bush’s Highlight Reel
20. Mikkey Halsted - King George
21. Obama on Hip-Hop
22. Joel Ortiz feat Dante Hawkins - Letter To Obama
23. Akon , U.M. - Aint No Sunshine
24. Qadir, Dwayne (Invasion) - Its My Time
25. Johnny Polygon (Invasion) & Amanda Diva - Colorblind
26. Mavado - We Need Barack
27. Jay-Z/Gabe Real - What We Need (Speech)
28. Qadir - Yes We Can Outro

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My hat goes off to Russell Simmons for using his celebrity and media mogul power to tap into this Political movement in such a profound way. A criticism of Black entertainers is often that they do not provide a forum for solutions and this mixtape is an excellent way of getting out Barack Obama’s message of change to people who might not have watched tonight’s debate, who might not have access to youtube and have the luxury of watching media pundits articulate the pros and cons of our political process.

While I sit here listening to this mixtape I am inspired that one man could bring together people of all ethnicities, different economic bacgrounds, different political ideologies and bring them to the same table and involve them in today’s leadership. Thank you to all the artists who ontributed to this project and remember to go out and vote on November 4th. OBAMA 08 YES WE CAN!

Make sure you check out Hip Hop Honors Tonight on VH1. They will be honoring Cypress Hill, Too Short, Slick Rick and the brothers of De La Soul from my hometown Amityville Long Island. Just watching all the videos on VH1 has me on a nostalgic vibe, here’s a few classic tracks for you! (more…)

The Barack Obama of Rhymers feel HONORED!!! I just read on CNN.COM that the stars are coming out and I was delighted to see that my main man Jay-Z is holding a concert rally for Barack Obama in tossup state Florida.

The merging of Hip-Hop and Politics has created an interesting marriage over the course of this election year. We have seen rapers expressing their support for Barack Obama which has often led to media lashings from the right wing because of some of the content that can be found in Hip-Hop.

It’s interesting though, think about this analogy. It would not be absurd to hear a country singer lavishing praise for a political candidate. Country music is filled with sexist lyrics, an over indulgence in alcohol and tons of other vices that can be found in middle America. But that’s ok. Hip-Hop speaks of those same vices from the perspective of urban america. Country music comes from middle America.

Interestingly enough when you see candidates campaigning and they speak of middle America, main street and not Wall street they are catering to middle class white voters. Main street does not correlate with 145th Street in Harlem, Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago or any other urban areas where you are sure to find minorities who too feel the pains of America’s economic policies and the lack of a good education in these urban areas.

So it is not a suprise that Right wing people criticiZe Barack Obama for inspiring Hip-Hop but also inspiring those who live in the areas in which Hip-Hop was created, to have a voice and become a part of the political system. I wish much success to Jay-Z and the organizers of this rally to bring out voters who typically are not engaged in this political arena because often they are forgotten. Obama 08 yes we can!!!!!!!!

Grammy-Award winning musician Jay-Z is set to host a voter registration rally and concert for Sen. Barack Obama in Miami on Sunday.

The event, “Last Chance for Change,” is free to those 18 and older, in an attempt to encourage young voters to register before the state’s October 6 registration deadline according to a press release.

Florida and its 27 electoral votes have been critical in past elections. According to CNN’s electoral map the state is currently a toss up between John McCain and Barack Obama.

 

As we remember the lives of those who were lost some 7 years agon on the fatefu day of 9/11. Let their memory live though song, while it is a tough time for many and the country as a whole I chose a few Hip-Hop songs for us to listn to and journey through the joy and the pain of such an atrocity.

Kanye trying something different I see!

While we are all entitled to our own opinions who ever wrote this nonsense should get their Hip-Hop Card revoked. Blender Magazine is known for saying stupid stuff but this has to take the cake. If you do not like 2PAC or his music, that is one thing but to disrespect his honor, his legacy, the type of heartfelt music and lyrics that he brought to the game. To neglect all of that and to call his the most over-rated musician just shows the lack of understanding that people have with respect to Hip-Hop and artists who truly have made a difference in the game as we know it!

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.

Shakur tops a tongue-in-cheek list that also includes “places, trends and other junk in rock,” Blender said in its upcoming October issue, due on newsstands next week.

Other overrated finalists included theGrammys at No. 7, encores at No. 12, Pink Floyd at No. 14 and “the music you loved as a teenager” at No. 23.

Shakur, a “gangsta” rapper who showed his sensitive side in movies, was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. More than a dozen albums have been released in the ensuing years, and his image is almost as ubiquitous as that ofChe Guevara or Bob Marley.

But while Shakur was a decent rapper with “insane rock-star charisma,” according to Blender, he also “larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler.”

It’s not the first time the pages of Blender have been used to bring down Shakur a few notches. In its June issue, rapper Lil Wayne listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: “I can’t front: I was never into Pac.”

As for the Grammys, the music industry’s top awards, Blender said sitting through the ceremony was “like watching paint dry on Celine Dion’s forehead.”

And encores were notable chiefly for allowing bands to go backstage and do drugs while fans wonder if they should beat the rush to the parking lot, Blender said.

Veteran British rock band Pink Floyd, meanwhile, were responsible for “unbearable LSD slapstick” and “self-important bombast.” And Blender warned that teenagers’ brains “can inflate a great band to Christ-size proportions” and turn a bad song into the most meaningful.

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Common is a dope dude, PERIOD. He’s clearly paying hommage to Biggie on this one. God ish!

For the die hard Wayne fans, here’s a new track called Pussy Monster. David Banner did the beat!

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