LL Cool J's message for President Bush
LL Cool J 21 August 2008
President Bush, LL Cool J has a few questions for you.
Joining Nas, Q-Tip and Jay-Z in turning rap away from pimpin' and toward politics, the elder statesman of hip hop subjects Dubya to a blistering interrogation on his new cut, "Mr. President."
"It's all about what I'd like to ask [him]," LL told us the other night at a downtown studio, where he let a few friends listen to his forthcoming album, "Exit 13" - his last for the Def Jam label.
Cranking up the bass till the floorboards throbbed, LL let track 14 rip:
"Mr. President, are you aware/Our flesh and blood is dying over there?/When the coffins come back, do you care?/When only the poor kids die, is it fair?/Don't get me wrong. I respect the flag/But it hurts to see a kid in a body bag/He fought for his country with all he had/Now we have a family without a dad."
The song moves on to other policy issues:
"Mr. President, are you aware unless you're rich, you have poor health care/It makes you scream and want to pull out your hair/Discharged from the hospital soon as you get there."
Would he like to get the disk to the White House?
"Tell me how to set that up, and I would be there in a heartbeat," he said, smirking.
LL fine-tuned the album for the past 2%BD years, during which time he turned down a half-dozen movie roles. Out Sept. 9, it's also filled with less polemic tracks and funny rhymes that had heads in the studio bobbing.
The rapper didn't stop moving once. Despite being 40, Mr. "Ladies Love Cool James" still has the abs and pecs of a 20-year-old.
His secret?
"Start young. Always stay in the gym. It's funny because hip hoppers age in dog-years, but I'm still young for a human,even though I'm a granddad of the rap game."
President Bush, LL Cool J has a few questions for you.
Joining Nas, Q-Tip and Jay-Z in turning rap away from pimpin' and toward politics, the elder statesman of hip hop subjects Dubya to a blistering interrogation on his new cut, "Mr. President."
"It's all about what I'd like to ask [him]," LL told us the other night at a downtown studio, where he let a few friends listen to his forthcoming album, "Exit 13" - his last for the Def Jam label.
Cranking up the bass till the floorboards throbbed, LL let track 14 rip:
"Mr. President, are you aware/Our flesh and blood is dying over there?/When the coffins come back, do you care?/When only the poor kids die, is it fair?/Don't get me wrong. I respect the flag/But it hurts to see a kid in a body bag/He fought for his country with all he had/Now we have a family without a dad."
The song moves on to other policy issues:
"Mr. President, are you aware unless you're rich, you have poor health care/It makes you scream and want to pull out your hair/Discharged from the hospital soon as you get there."
Would he like to get the disk to the White House?
"Tell me how to set that up, and I would be there in a heartbeat," he said, smirking.
LL fine-tuned the album for the past 2%BD years, during which time he turned down a half-dozen movie roles. Out Sept. 9, it's also filled with less polemic tracks and funny rhymes that had heads in the studio bobbing.
The rapper didn't stop moving once. Despite being 40, Mr. "Ladies Love Cool James" still has the abs and pecs of a 20-year-old.
His secret?
"Start young. Always stay in the gym. It's funny because hip hoppers age in dog-years, but I'm still young for a human,even though I'm a granddad of the rap game."
Labels: Bush, Music, United States
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