{"id":45,"date":"2008-04-01T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/04\/01\/dmx-where-he-from-africa\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:03:16","slug":"dmx-where-he-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/04\/01\/dmx-where-he-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"DMX: “Where he from, Africa?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, my friend Dan Ledger sent me a link to an interview with DMX at XXL Mag<\/a>. There’s a portion of it that’s about the presidential race and Barack Obama in particular. It’s pretty amazing:<\/p>\n

Are you following the presidential race?<\/strong>
\nNot at all.<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not? You know there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hillary Clinton.<\/strong>
\nHis name is Barack?!
\n
\nBarack Obama, yeah.<\/strong>
\nBarack?!<\/p>\n

Barack.<\/strong>
\nWhat the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?<\/p>\n

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.<\/strong>
\nBarack Obama?<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/strong>
\nWhat the fuck?! That ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t no fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 name, yo. That ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that nigga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re telling me you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard about him before.<\/strong>
\nI ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really paying much attention.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty big if a Black\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nWow, Barack! The nigga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t his fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [laughs] \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t your fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 name.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Your momma ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t name you no damn Barack.<\/p>\n

So you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not following the race. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vote right?<\/strong>
\nNope.<\/p>\n

Is that why you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not following it?<\/strong>
\nNo, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna do what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna do. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really make a difference. These are the last years.<\/p>\n

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.<\/strong>
\nI mean, I guess\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. What, they gon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now<\/em>. They should\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be in the fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked<\/em> this shit up then give it to the Black people, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Here you take it. Take my mess.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Right, exactly.<\/strong>
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all a fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 setup. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all a setup. All fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bullshit. All bullshit. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give a fuck about none of that.<\/p>\n

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.<\/strong>
\nI mean, either way it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.<\/p>\n

Yeah, but the country is.<\/strong>
\nI guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make no damn decisions.<\/p>\n

The president\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have that much authority basically?<\/strong>
\nNah, never.<\/p>\n

But Bush pretty much\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nYou think Bush is making fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decisions?<\/p>\n

He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.<\/strong>
\nHe act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 speak!
\nCan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be serious. He ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t making no damn decisions.<\/p>\n

Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be something.<\/strong>
\nGood for him, good for him.
\n
\nHow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your family and your kids?<\/strong>
\nThey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good. My son is rapping now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, now for a picture of me and my beard at work on April 1!!<\/p>\n

\"me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, my friend Dan Ledger sent me a link to an interview with DMX at XXL Mag. There’s a portion of it that’s about the presidential race and Barack Obama in particular. It’s pretty amazing: Are you following the presidential race? Not at all. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not? You know there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Black guy running, Barack Obama … Continue reading DMX: “Where he from, Africa?”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}