I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we could be very close to the Apocalypse. Why do I say this? Well, because GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson just released a rap song.
Ben Carson/Rap Song. Not exactly terms you would expect to see next to one another, huh?
In an attempt to reach out to black voters, the Carson campaign has just purchased $150,000 of airtime on radio stations that have a majority of African-American listeners.
Just so you know, the rap is performed by rapper Aspiring Mogul, and snippets of comments from Carson are interspersed throughout the song.
But now let’s get completely honest here and call it like we see it: The beat is pretty pathetic and the lyrics are not exactly gonna make Kanye West nervous:
“If we want to get America back on track, we got to vote for Ben Carson matter of fact.”
Really? That was the best they could do? It’s obvious they didn’t spend $150,000 on the lyrics.
One of the quotes from Dr. Carson that is featured in the ad goes like this:
“I’m very hopeful that I’m not the only one who’s willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.”
Actually, Ben, you’re fighting to get yourself to the top of the GOP clown car. As Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently noted when writing about Carson:
“His repressive, muddled and pious policies and opinions often run against our Constitution—but his questionable proposals will likely, thankfully, be doomed by his lack of political expertise. His presidency would be marked by even worse gridlock while he wastes his time trying to impose his narrow and sometimes ill-informed morality on the other 319 million people in the nation.”
And if that’s not bad enough, he also makes terrible music. Need I say more?
Listen for Yourself…If You Dare!
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