Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Can Hip-Hop Help?

Not to long ago there was a special on MTV about hip-hop bringing young people together and talking about how hip-hop can help lead the young people to vote. Is that so?
Jay-Z, Eminem, P.Diddy, and many, many more Hip-Hop artist launched "Choose or Lose Presents: "Vote or Die!" you can read up on it at Jay-Z, Eminem Rally Hip-HopFans on 'Vote or Die' Special. But does it really work? Do young Hip-Hop fans really want to hear their favorite talk about politics , or do they want them to rap? As much as these celebrities are pushing 'Vote or Die' it should work.
This special was really dedicated to people who do love hip-hop and who live in those cities or whatever, that don't take politics seriously, especially in the HOOD. Jay-z said, "most of the hip-hop fans live in the urban areas and those are the areas that don't vote." Jay -Z said that the reasons for voting is for change, while Eminem's reasons are totally different. Eminem stated that the election is a way to express ourselves as voters as he expresses himself in his music.
I really don't listen to hip-hop, but I'm about tired of hearing about 'Vote or Die'. I kind of think that this would work, but it is always those knotheads that don't care. As much as this is being talked about I believe many young voters have a change of heart to vote.
P.Diddy is one of the main spokesmen that runs 'Vote or Die' and according to him, it is our choice this year. Hip-Hop has made a break through with "Vote or Due" for the simple fact that more then just urban people listen to, more then hoodrats, and project pimps... Suburban people listen to it, country people listen to it. Hip-Hop is mainstream America now days. Even politians have taken it to the head to get young peoples attention. I believe it will work.
To learn more about 'Vote or Die' you can also visit,Citizen Change at http://www.citizenchange.com/site/pp.asp?c=kkJ2JeO0F&b=140819

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

And there off!!!???

Debate one of the presidential election is over. What did you think?
I thought it could have been a little more then what it was. I think that the debate was okay. I was expecting a little more then what I got.
This is going to be my first presidential election, and before know, I never even watched the debates. But now it is time for me to make a change.
Listening to the remarks and comments, going back and for the , from Bush to Kerry and Kerry to Bush, kind of made me think of me and my brother fighting. Some of the comments made, I believe things shouldn't have been said, like "Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time" by Bush, for about 50 million times through the whole debate, maybe once would have done the job! Why was the whole debate over the war in Iraq. It took them a while to even bring up other thing like Russia, Sudan, and North Korea.
At this point, I believe that the candidates still have not made up there minds about what they want to do for our country. Because Bush doesn't have a plan, and Kerry doesn't know what plan he wants to choose. Other then the fact that Kerry was short spoken and Bush was speechless during most of the debate. I feel that it was kind of pointless to watch. I know what someone else thought about this debate, here is a website Kerry vs Bush