Heh, people actually listened to Steele

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Yo dawgs...

Okay, I won't do it. But apparently these two white male business majors from Dartmouth College who went to the same Private College Prep School used their Macs to come out with this totally honest message for the urban-suburban hip-hop settings:

lkeZ2P4SiY8

They claim Reagan, Rand, Jesus and the King as their conservative icons on their site.

:dl:

I'm sorry it isn't parody, but it should be.

[leftysergeant]

Too bloody wierd. Dudes look kind of full of themselves, don't they?

[hgc]

Yes, a couple of young conservative rappers have come out with something called Young Con Anthem. The lyrics are absolutely hysterical.

Some samples...


I'm six, nine. Head and shoulders above the rest. Liberals playing checkers; I'm playing chess. My conservative view is drill, baby, drill. You can say you hate me, but I'm praying for you still.

Three things taught me Conservative Love: Jesus, Ronald Reagan, plus Atlas Shrugged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeZ2P4SiY8

[Skeptic]

I'm six, nine.

Er... I don't get it. What does that mean?

More generally, these fools Reminds me of Dire Strait's "Industrial Disease" (whose lyrics are intentionally funny):

Two men say they're Jesus / one of them must be wrong! / There's a protest singer / he's singing a protest song.

[brodski]

Er... I don't get it. What does that mean?


I think he means 6'9" as in " I'm 6' 9", head and shoulders above the rest".

[hgc]

I think he means 6'9" as in "I'm 6' 9", head and shoulders above the rest".

Yes, that's it. Since I was transcribing, I just wrote the words rather than the common notation.

Anyway, I love how that stanza is a random collection of tropes, gouped together due to their rhyming potential. It's a Vonnegutesque karass of concepts. To say, "I'm playing chess," directly followed by, "drill, baby, drill" is a masterstroke of juxtaposition.

[Brainster]

A conservative rap song?

:p

[brodski]

A conservative rap song?

:p

yes, it part of the cutting edge of the c:rap genre.

[Skeptic]

I think he means 6'9" as in " I'm 6' 9", head and shoulders above the rest".

Okay. My first instinct about what "6 9" means in rap was, er, rather different.

Didn't quite fit the "Jesus is my savior" angle of the song, though.

Then again, Jesus did enjoy an occassional threesome (http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/Pictures/Treasures%20of%20the%20Bible%20(Jesus%27%20Death,% 20Burial,%20Resurrection,%20and%20Ascension)/images/scan0011.jpg), so I dunno...

[Brainster]

If you look at the guy, he's got that "Lurch" look--tall, thin, lantern jaw. He does look about 6'9".

[Tsukasa Buddha]

I beat you, http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=144244.

:p

[Bikewer]

I see another rapper was just murdered; perhaps the "conservative" movement will help these lads clean up their act.

Of course, no one would pay any attention to them....

[dudalb]

You know, of course, leaving the existence or not existence of God out of the equation, that Ojectivism and the teaching of Jesus on conduct toward other human beings are 100% Incompatible.

[plumjam]

These two bruvvaz is called '36 Cent', innit.
Dat cos dey is like Fiddy Cent, 'cept minus da 28% Capital Gains Tax wot dey is gettin' up and in Da Man's face about.
Man, dat tax is raff.

[corplinx]

that Ojectivism and the teaching of Jesus on conduct toward other human beings are 100% Incompatible.

Wasn't Ann a bigtime atheist?

[tomwaits]

Indeed...from what I remember from the Fountainhead, atheism was a huge factor in the philosophy.